While it's probably a tall ask, we hope it's something we'll see happen with other deaths throughout the game. It looks like there are quite a few and we absolutely love the idea behind it. For instance, after being demolished by Hedgie's rockets, the game over screen briefly shows a stylised animation of Hedgie blowing a humanoid (presumably the player) into oblivion.

We urge you to check out the top of the screen when the character dies, though, as it looks like Mundfish has created custom cartoon animations for each way the character dies. is there anything this murderball can't do? The trailer gives us a better look at how Atomic Heart will play when it launches, such as a few of the weapons we'll have at our disposal, movement, and the electrically-charged skills the protagonist can call upon.

Hedgie is the massive mechanical ball you can see in the trailer above tearing across a garden with haste, spinning in the sky on one of its spindly arms, causing its own gravitational field, and firing rockets.

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