South of Midnight is Awesome and Unique

South of Midnight is Awesome. We are going to say this right of the bat. South of Midnight is an Xbox exclusive game developed by Compulsion games. South of Midnight is unique and gives gamers a whole new experience. X35 Earthwalker played it on the early launch day, the 3rd of April 2025 and has numerous things to say about it. It officially launches on the 8th of April 2025. Let’s take a look.

South of Midnight takes place in the south… maybe the dirty south. In a town called Prospero. Magnus the red (who did nothing wrong) likes this place. Players control a girl called Hazel. Thanks to a crazy hurricane, ends up on a mission to try and save her mama. Soon learns that she  is quite special. She can see strands, stigma, haunts and aspects of the grand tapestry. Armed with unusual tools for this adventure. This game mature for sure. Handling some dark themes and truly sad stuff. Gamers must brace themselves for a unique and innovative experience.

So this whole south thing is dived into more than usual. Expect a bunch of south folklore and mythos. This is all part of South of Midnight. so yeah, a giant croc with hatred and bitterness in its heart is a thing. Really big croc. Creatures of the night and some actually scary stuff for the average person. No spoilers here, as we don’t roll that way. We will say that South of Midnight starts off strong. There’s many aspects of the game that awe are truly enjoying and they are doing amazingly well.  for starters the music is top tier and definitely hits that south style. Expects strings, yes the banjo too, a solid beat and chilling tunes. The singers do a good job and paint an image of what they would look like in your head.

The animations of that on purpose lower frames while keeping everything else 60 frames is delicious. The game just looks great too for its graphic style. The graphics are very good. The combat though… is excellent. It’s all smooth and no frame drops either. Run up and swing on them haunts. Dodge or if you got skill do a perfectly timed dodge which also damages the enemies. There’s also abilities to use like wrapping an enemy up so they can’t move or attack and also receive more damage. You can full on scorpion “GET OVER HERE” and pull smaller foes in or pull yourself to them with follow up strikes. Force push foes (no Darth Vader) with weaver pushes to disrupt and interrupt foes. Come down from above with a AOE (Area of effect) attack upon landing. Unravel haints, basically execution finisher, to get back some health, reduce cool down of abilities and when combined with an ability, cause an explosive omnidirectional damage in a short radius. The combat is great. Haters are being stupid as expected. 

The enemies, the haunts come in variety with different types. There’s the let me run at you and slap you. There’s a hive that releases insects to explode at you. A floaty one that launches projectiles as a lob or fast straight. There’s more than that, go see for yourself. The people who complained about the combat most likely playing on easier difficulties and not engaging with all the mechanics in the combat. You can really flow around the battlefield with the beautifully animated dodge, zip to enemies or bring to you, stall enemies with your little friend, wrap up another and have your way with foes.

X35 Earthwalker off course has a podcast episode on Spotify talking about South of Midnight. So listen to that for more details and the unique style that X35 has. There’s also a gameplay video of 1 hour of South of Midnight gameplay. So check that out to see exactly what you would be getting. 

Overall South of Midnight is awesome. It’s a game we can recommend to a wide variety of gamers. South of midnight is also on Xbox Game Pass, the best deal in all of gaming. So game pass subscribers you can play it when released. Go try it. We strongly recommend this game. We looking forward to more of what the game has to offer. The game will only get more crazy from here out. X35 Earthwalker can say right now that we haven’t seen the last of Hazel. Now South of Midnight may have folklore from the south but none of it is scary enough for… the ‘Earth Walk!’