![]() ![]() ![]() The mock adverts will make you laugh, as will the capering of Kindred’s hyperactive CEO, but the objects of the game’s ridicule are too vague and distant for it to be more than window dressing. The satire is toothless, doing little to differentiate itself from Fallout, The Outer Worlds and every other parody of capitalism that gaming seemingly loves despite being one of the most corporate industries around. Like the general structure, the comedy is intermittently successful, veering between amusing and irritating. When you return to your ship to upgrade equipment, obnoxious adverts for products like memory-erasing “brain wipes” yammer at you from a wall-mounted TV. Every alien animal you slaughter explodes into a quivering mass of vivid goo. In the absence of a specific mechanical hook, Savage Planet turns to comedy to grab the player’s attention, aiming for the satirical bite and splatter ratio of a Paul Verhoeven movie. The problem is there’s little to Savage Planet that’s new or hasn’t been done better elsewhere. It tickles the part of your brain that yearns for distant horizons without demanding a huge chunk of your life, unlike Skyrim or Breath of the Wild. One of Savage Planet’s more notable achievements is communicating a sense of scale and freedom in a game that is only a fraction of the size of most open-world contemporaries. Hidden within the planet’s shattered strata are giant mushroom forests and crystalline caves, while its centre is dominated by a mysterious alien megastructure. For its combat, Savage Planet graduated from the one-two punch school of Bioshock, combining a fast-firing pistol with various throwable objects such as acid grenades and exploding “bombegranates”.Īll of this works fine, and the colourful environments are enjoyable to explore despite the tired floating island concept. It adopts the scanning system of No Man’s Sky, with which you catalogue the planet’s diverse and occasionally aggressive wildlife. Typhoon Studios borrows liberally from other games to construct Savage Planet’s toolset. Colourful environments, exploding animals and toothless satire … Journey to the Savage Planet.
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