That may turn some off I’m sure there will be players who find Journey to the Savage Planet has too much journeying and too little savagery. There’s a driving mystery to all of this, of course - this was meant to be a planet with no intelligent life, but something has been here, leaving arcane architecture dotted across the landscape - but it’s more of a raison d’etre than a finishing line you’re rushing to cross. The developers, it seems, have been messing around as much as they want you to. Mixing art direction from some forgotten pulp novel and a chaotic cartoon approach to comedy, this is a game that clearly wants to try and make you laugh at every opportunity, and that goes down to the smallest details: your melee attacks aren’t the FPS-standard punch - they’re a backhand slap or that aforementioned punt every time you return to your ship, FMV adverts for made-up products play on screens all around you even the tutorial AI asks if you want to switch her off because her “simulated personality can be a bit abrasive”. It helps that that world is all so odd, too.
Essentially, Savage Planet aims to let you explore its mechanics as well as its world.
Not only was the act of finding out what this thing did more fun than just being told, by using it I suddenly realised how many places I’d already been where this could come in handy. I stepped on those blobs, and got catapulted into the air - I’d essentially created my own jump pad. Of course, my first reaction was to throw them at something, which created a mass of more blobs attached to the floor. After smashing open an egg sac, I was rewarded with some green blobs that immediately equipped to my left hand. What I particularly love, so far, is how the game offers up certain tools with little explanation as to what they do. There are a dozen things to be distracted by before you get close to starting the game properly. Plus, there’s the completionist’s dream - almost all flora and fauna are scannable, meaning you can create a catalogue of alien life before, eventually, you’re given a Probe item that you can jab into passers-by for even more scientific data.
Quests unlock as you reach obstacles, and do so in whatever order you find them in, meaning they feel more like your character working out their way through the world than being told exactly what to do next. But it commits to that idea of exploration like few other games.įor a start, there’s no map, meaning you’ll naturally learn how everything fits together as you play (a GPS tracker will stop you from ever becoming truly lost).
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It’s a first person game that takes you through a miniature world filled with bizarrely named locations across a few different biomes (things like: “Tranquil Crevasse of Tranquility” or “Towering Crystals of Madness”) asking you to upgrade your equipment and salvage natural resources to get around. Mixing the free-form storytelling of Outer Wilds, the ‘70s soft-sci-fi trappings of No Man’s Sky, the cynical corporate satire of The Outer Worlds, and even the bizarre “what the hell does this do?” projectiles of Stranger’s Wrath, this is a game with a very sure idea of itself (even if you won’t necessarily know what that is as you take your first steps outside your crashed ship).Īt its core, Journey to the Savage Planet wants you to explore.
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