Jusant review – a skyscraping climbing game with the gift of perspective

Jusant doesn't so much do away with the cliche of the video game vista as reorient it. Instead of giving you a stirring panorama to gaze upon, it fixes your view on the vertiginous mountain stretching above and below, your task being to guide a quiet, androgynous character across its rocks and ridge-splitting crevasses. Instead, it homes in on the challenge of navigating in the here and now, one dusty handhold and firmly lodged belay at a time. The magic of Jusant lies in its ingenious control scheme. Each outstretched hand is controlled by one of the shoulder buttons; hold and release the shoulder buttons in tandem and you start to build a thrilling sense of fluidity, scaling the cliff at a considerable rate of knots.