Clid the Snail lets players unlock music selections as they play with newly announced mode

The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 exclusive takes aural unlocks to the next level.

Clid the Snail, a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 exclusive headed to those platforms later this year as a digital release, will include a "Casette" mode so players don't have to wait to enjoy the game's music whenever they like.

In the new game, the Casette mode ensures they can listen to a new composition after initially encountering it in a new stage. By the time they finish the game, they will have unlocked every single selection. It's pretty big news for fans of music inspired by snails.

Weird Beluga, the game's developer, calls the game a "dark fable about the feeling of not fitting in, of being an outcast." Players control Clid, a humanoid snail who blasts through dreary landscapes while accompanied by a firefly sidekick named Belu.

"I wanted the music to sound sad and melancholic, but not depressing," said Alejandro Garcia, the composer responsible for the soundtrack. "It is the song that a snail would play in the middle of a town, in the middle of a thunderstorm. The rain is pouring and everybody is save at home, looking through the window, unaware [of] a menace that is looming upon them."

Here's a list of features from today's press release:

• Help Clid find his place in a hostile world while solving puzzles and wiping every enemy on the screen in this top-down shooter


• Unlock different weapons and combine them to create havoc along the way


• Enjoy Clid and Belu's love and hate relationship through their funny, witty dialogues


• Unlock mysteries in this fable about being an outcast and find out who Clid really is

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Staff article by Jason Venter (March 01, 2021) Jason Venter has been playing games for 30 years, since discovering the Apple IIe version of Mario Bros. in his elementary school days. Now he writes about them, here at HonestGamers and also at other sites that agree to pay him for his words.