Игрок 1312·Рекомендует·8 ч в игре

Planet Alpha was... an artistically beautiful but a messy game. Gameplay wasn't too interesting and the day/night mechanics that only added something new to the game was useless after a while. Movements and jumping was clunky at some points, especially in void(?) parts so I got frustrated a lot. However, chase scenes were actually exciting and put me in the game back again. Most of my score goes to environment and sounds as they were beautifully crafted and were the reason I wanted to keep going. Most of the story was happening at the background, and I enjoyed how the environment crafted a story for itself. We were running to survive in the front, while nature was fighting to survive in the back. Especially watching the flying whale family fight for themselves and seeing the mom and dad die as they slowly lose their limbs in the background broke my heart. I was happy that the child survived but then the nuke happened... Overall story and the history of the planet seems to be messy, some technological altars exist, there is a void(?) and teleporters? How did we even come here? Why are we not trying to go back home? Are the dead likenesses of us just some other people from our race or are they our failed 'loops'? And how does the 'loop' work? I know the story and the ending is up for player's interpretation but I think developers could've made a better job at conveying their visions. Still, this game made me feel a lot of emotions, especially melancholy when the loop happened and I got to see the nature thriving again, only to realize it's destined to get destroyed. I don't regret that I put 5 hours into this game and I actually recommend it but I regret to see that it could've been so much more with further world building.

Игрок 6924·Рекомендует·5 ч в игре

Beautiful game, a little confusing story but the gist is understandable, and clunky at times due to bugs but nothing that prevents completion. The puzzles can be frustrating at times but nothing too bad. There are invisible walls out of nowhere at any given moment so you have to jump to free yourself which isn't intended, like you are just stuck running in place for no reason...not sure what caused this bug. I completed the true ending without guidance on my first and only run so it isn't too difficult to find the artifact portals needed for that even though 2 of the 4 gave rare achievements so take that as you wish. Worth a play, one of the better side scrollers out there.