Instead of the initial resentment I felt for the repetitive, eye-strainingly poor textures that painted every surface, I was grateful for the power that anything I found that wasn’t more sand held for it. A lost and lonely astronaut marooned on a strange planet wouldn’t be rewarded by anything particularly interesting for wasting energy and oxygen.
While it does perhaps ring true that a game that specialises in exploration should reward those willing to poke around each corner with more than a dusty crater, that sentiment in itself doesn’t quite add up. There’s such a sense of wonder at discovering the correct trail of exploration, and at nailing the route itself, that I was perhaps thankful that I had spent valuable minutes of my journey wandering around an expanse with absolutely no idea of where to go or what to do. It wasn’t until I’d swanned around the seemingly endless expanse before me for around half an hour that the game fully opened up for me, but that first impression did little to generate excitement for the thoroughly captivating adventure I was about to experience.Īfter being introduced to the charming exploration platformer side of things after I’d finally found my feet on this alien planet, I placed my Nintendo Switch neatly on the pullout train table before me and reevaluated my position of sheer frustration. It was this feeling of blind helplessness that initially had me rubbing my temples at Stage 2 Studios’ mystery exploration platformer. Unlike your first day of school, your first task is to deal with the oxygen leak rapidly sucking the life out of your astronaut suit. Fully aware of the necessity to dive in and with snippets of advice ringing in your ears, you are suddenly abandoned in the middle of an expanse of confusion with a simple set of instructions you have no idea of how to fulfil. Being dropped into the world of Lifeless Planet feels very similar to your first day at school.
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