![]() To aid in your exploring, you’ll have access to a grappling hook, a rocket jump, and a few other items that help you blow apart cracks in the wall or through electrical doors that shut when you get too close. ![]() Thankfully, there is a very adept fast travel system that prevents a great deal of backtracking. The planet you’re exploring is progressed through in ways reminiscent of something like Metroid Prime, where you’ll eventually gain access to abilities and tools that grant you entry to new areas or through previously locked sections of earlier locations. Scanning is fairly enjoyable, cataloging the various critters and plants around you, but after a while into the game, it does lose a bit of its appeal and to be honest, you may end up forgetting to do so from time to time. Also, despite the mode having a zoom function, the distance you can actually scan items from can feel somewhat limiting.Īs you explore, you’ll scan creatures, structures, and the vegetation around you to unlock a bit of the lore built for the game, and there is certainly a lot to take in here. The only problem I have with vision modes like this is that you tend to live in them far too often and the appeal of having gorgeous environments around you is sidelined as you’re constantly looking around and exploring while in this mode, hoping you track down what you’re looking for only to spring it back up as you are then tasked with finding something else. As you traverse the wide open world presented to you, you’ll use a scanner, acting in the way we expect from a vision-mode that I consistently refer to as Batman’s detective vision from the series of Arkham Games. That said, a lot of the humor in this game is pretty good, but it does eventually get to the point of running some of its jokes into the ground over and over again.Īpart from its narrative, there is a gameplay loop that is pretty enjoyable here explore, scan, shoot, and explore some more. You’re given a talkative AI, one that continues to explain your situation to you as well as joke and comment about how your death is meaningless due to the fact she can just simply clone you over and over again until the end of time. ![]() Your mission is then changed, to that of discovering who and what left a series of strange structures on this world, a task given to you by the fourth-best interstellar space exploration company on earth, ran by what seems is a total idiot. You eventually find that you are not the first visitor to this planet, something that was not revealed in the original scans. In many ways, this feels like the game I wanted from No Man’s Sky, but sadly, much of what Journey to the Savage Planet offers isn’t as well-executed as its premise and while it makes for an alright adventure, it’s not that particularly thrilling.įrom the moment you select your explorer from a series of random people or a space-faring pooch, you’ll awake on a colorful planet, one code-named AR-Y 26 and told to explore its strange and wondrous topside. Its colorful creatures, often humorous dialogue and brief moments of action accompanied me along the adventure of exploring this strange alien world. Journey to the Savage Planet was a game I purchased from word of mouth and from seeing a bit of it streamed on Twitch.
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