Planet of Lana
Apr. 17th, 2025 05:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varidogLast month, I played through Planet of Lana.
This one was essentially a side-scroller puzzler with a story. Humans are living semi-modern and semi-primitive, when robots show up and kidnap everyone. Your hero, a girl named Lana, then begins her journey to save her sister, puzzling her way through situations and avoiding robots.
I generally enjoyed most of the puzzles, and all the visual storytelling about how the people got to such a strange world. For 80% of the game, I found it absolutely charming.
Part of the charm is your companion, a black little void creature, like a cat. You rescue it along the way, and it becomes your companion, working with you to solve the puzzles.
The un-charming part were the robot puzzles. If you got them wrong, they shot you and. you died. I don't know what the game was thinking by making you die. I hated, possibly even despised, all puzzles involving robots.
In all, I did the whole thing in a week. It wasn't very long, but it was just enough to be tasty.
This one was essentially a side-scroller puzzler with a story. Humans are living semi-modern and semi-primitive, when robots show up and kidnap everyone. Your hero, a girl named Lana, then begins her journey to save her sister, puzzling her way through situations and avoiding robots.
I generally enjoyed most of the puzzles, and all the visual storytelling about how the people got to such a strange world. For 80% of the game, I found it absolutely charming.
Part of the charm is your companion, a black little void creature, like a cat. You rescue it along the way, and it becomes your companion, working with you to solve the puzzles.
The un-charming part were the robot puzzles. If you got them wrong, they shot you and. you died. I don't know what the game was thinking by making you die. I hated, possibly even despised, all puzzles involving robots.
In all, I did the whole thing in a week. It wasn't very long, but it was just enough to be tasty.
