Polygon’s very own Michael McWhertor highlights the explosive entertainment emanating from the screen in their playthrough of ANTONBLAST, the fast-paced explosive action platformer from developer Summitsphere and publisher Joystick Ventures. Get a taste of the sulfuric destruction for yourself by reading Michael’s experience descending into Hell to face off against Satan’s sassy skills:

Despite the visual assault of Antonblast, and my performance playing it, I was having a, well, blast. It was like playing Wario Land 4 while riding a roller coaster and having a bit of a buzz on. Then at certain points, the game’s frenetic mechanics started to click — in those moments, I felt like I started to speak the strange language of Antonblast.

This is a game that features a dedicated “Scream” button, after all. (Seriously, you just hold it down to make its main character scream loudly and endlessly.)

Barely controlled chaos is the beating heart of Antonblast, in which almost everything is resolved by smashing it with a huge hammer or blasting through it like the Tasmanian Devil. As Dyanamite Anton (or his similarly drunken coworker Dynamite Annie), I’m sent into 2D levels that move in all directions, jumping and crashing my way through exploding crates, and getting into the flow of dashing and bashing stuff. There are moments of serious, hardcore platforming, during which I must try to avoid poisonous lakes and pools populated with electric eel-like machines. But most of the time, I’m simply accelerating forward like a tornado, blowing everything to bits.

Be sure to check out Michael’s full impressions in their feature over at Polygon. ANTONBLAST is now available on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch! For more information, devil-haters with a penchant for demolition can follow Summitsphere on their official website, Bluesky, Twitter/X, TikTok, and Instagram, join their Discord server, and visit Joystick Ventures’ official website and follow them on Bluesky and Twitter/X.