New Puzzle Platformer Planet of Lana: should you play it?

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Published on May 26, 2023 12:00:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF70r5lofR4

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Planet of Lana (2022)

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Planet Of Lana is a brand new Puzzle Platformer that just dropped on Xbox Game Pass and Steam and probably everywhere else too. It's a vibrantly realised world and I'd recommend it to everyone who wants a beautiful Platformer experience. Unless you still haven't gotten over getting stuck on one annoying part of Limbo thirteen god damn years ago.

This is a fairly short experience so it's not here to waste your time or pad itself out. That also means it's going to be inundated with positive reviews because it's not going to snap any reviewers over it's knee. Most players will be done with the game in around four hours. In New Zealand Rupees it's $25 bucks. I don't want to balance the conversation of game time and price because Cold Takes did a brilliant video on this very subject a wee while ago. Link in the description.    • Why I Don't Talk About A Game's Worth...  

But I will say this. 25 bucks is the price I'd pay for JUST the soundtrack in this game. It's gorgeous and cinematic, and perfectly suits the framing of this game. Don't read the track names before finishing the game! Big spoilers! The entire experience manages to maintain a cinematic feeling with some truly great visuals and some expert uses of zoom, which will come in and out depending on the puzzle size or the feeling their trying to give us.

The main meat of this game is what you expect from a puzzle platformer with striking uses of black. It's bad things happening to kids in the forest: the videogame. The storyline starts with your cute lake village getting attacked by robots from space, looking to capture every living thing in site. A giant cage robot flies away with your sister and thank god it flew off the right hand side of the screen, because that's the direction you'll be running in for the next four hours, with the occasional wildlife, crate, rope, and puzzle getting in the way.

The game adds new mechanics at a nice pace, and a little cat sidekick helps create some interesting scenarios. The cat can interact and mesmirise the wildlife, while you can do all the heavy lifting. You'll also be using the cat to distract killer robots that kill you with not a moments hesitation.

I got an achievement for finding a hidden shrine which instantly triggered me because It said I had found number 3 of 10, which instantly made me wonder, Wait where are the first and second one.

I'm not restarting though, I'm forging ahead and be damned with the consequences.

I played this game on my phone with an 8bitdo controller as well as on the big screen. It was playable just fine at that smaller size but obviously, bigger screen the better to do it justice.

Anyway, do I recommend this game. Yeah totally it's great. I give it an 8 out of number.

here's my back of box quote for the game, done in the tongue of my people "Wheeee whisp whisp whisp whyuuuuuu"

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