Cereus Peashy is the next game in the popular badlands series from Award winning designer Edmund McMillen (of Gish and Triachnid fame), and programmer, Riftmaster (my partner in crime from Bat Outta Hell). Like most of the badlands games, you play as a twisted looking little dessert critter (this one is pretty much a walking cactus in a mask) combating your way through the trials of the badlands and its other inhabitants.

At heart, Peashy is a platforming game and has a lot of elements from games like Sonic the Hedgehog, like speedy running, spiny ball attacks and rolls. Given the nature of the character it’s a natural direction to take, but Peashy is so much more then a Sonic wannabe. You can pick up spikes that give you limited range attacks, and if you splatter enough baddies you go into a complete bloodlust where you turn red and can throw bouncy, explosive hearts.

The cartoony gore in this game isn’t used as a crutch to attract 12 year old players that think blood makes games cool, rather it’s more of an effect to flush out the fleshiness and volatility of the creatures you face. Plus it’s really funny.

This early demo wasn’t quite finished on the audio end and was missing music, but the sounds that were present were quite fitting and had all the gooey body splatting effects you would expect.

The story mode looks like it will have plenty of levels to keep hardcore players going for hours, and for my fellow casual players there is a survival mode!

With extremely fun gameplay, and insanely hot graphics, Cereus Peashy is poised to turn a ton of heads when it launches in the very near future. Check back with us for our official review when the full game is available.