Automaton Lung

released on Jun 23, 2022

Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations, all rendered in beautiful stereoscopic 3D. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear. Each footstep taken, every mile flown, and all doorways entered reveal more to discover in Automaton Lung.


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Heavy vibes and surprisingly fluid movement. I really like the overworld! It's pretty cool that this is the last 3ds game.

I'm clearly completely ignorant of whatever this is trying to conjure, because I'm getting nothing here.

If anything, I feel like it's not abstract enough? A humanoid, running and jumping and locking-on and shooting, just seems like a pretty mundane way to interact with these spaces.

Go play Car Quest instead.

I don't like the Yume Nikki comparisons at all. Would you like to live in a world where every game with minimal directions is called a yumelike? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Talking about the game itself though (unlike 99% of people who mention this game) it's clear that the developer understands what makes a collectathon fun, which is having the controls be comfortable enough to move around at ease but stiff enough to make grabbing shit challenging.

incredible vibes, sometimes clever, sometimes tedious

vibes as all hell. The mere existence of this game is kinda subversive imo. The harolds walk guy still making his neat little explorative games on 3DS when the eshop was about to close and the switch was on its fifth year of life really just says something, yanno?

A lot of what I said about harolds walk can be said here except things are done in a grander scale here. Just this gigantic bizarre world populated with nothing but collectables, with no explanation on what to do, where to go, or what anything means, really. Despite the absolute lack of any direction, the game does a good job still making its primary objective of collecting all the things in the levels rather clear. It's one of those games that lets you do things however you want, and I liked that kind of freedom as I just took in the various different levels n setpieces as I found things along the way.

The game is no longer available on the 3DS itself but there's a steam version that I bought anyways to support my boy Luke Vincent. Given the fact that this is an extremely late 3DS title compounded by the visuals being like better-than-PS1-but-not-quite-like-dreamcast in quality, I don't know if the vibes particularly translate to the PC environment. But its def better to have the game still available somewhere rather than have it be stuck on a dead platform, plus its better to support one-man projects like this in any way possible. Give it a try!

primer yume nikki like que no me da sueño incluyendo el propio yume nikki