The moment Orbitals appeared at The Game Awards I knew, not only would this be something special, but something different. The boom in these split-screen and co-op games after the success of It Takes Two has been staggering, and many studios are trying to grasp the magic of what made that title a rare experience in video games. It hasn’t even been seven months since Shapefarm’s big reveal, but this small studio from Tokyo seems to have hit the ground running with their first game.