Planet of Lana is another one those puzzle platformers that are clearly inspired by Inside and Limbo. Except it adds some Journey inspirations. And makes them all intensely more irritating than I could imagine. As someone who liked Limbo but found Journey and Inside lacking in puzzles and actual gameplay narrative, this game is just so much worse.
The game is very pretty. The music is nice. I didn't face any bugs. That's about all I can say that's nice about this package.
There are heaps of small annoyances that continually add up over time. How you're essentially just holding right for long stretches. How the music doesn't quite fit in a lot of places. How your main character screams EEELOOO at the most inappropriate and pointless places. How you get a little creature you control and it's so janky and awkward at every single point. How the vision cones of the enemies flat out lies to you and some enemies don't have a vision cone at all. How most puzzles are basically just hiding from these vision cones. How you have to make the creature drop down ropes to progress at multiple points in the game and it requires zero thought. How the game suddenly adds a bunch of useless QTEs that make you button mash. How the backgrounds don't quite transition well between scenes and you go from a wide open sea to a desert suddenly and it doesn't quite make sense. How the game isn't seamless and frequently cuts to black for cutscenes and takes away control from you. How the game drops you multiple times after cutscenes into brief spots that make you hold right for literally seconds before transitioning you into another cutscene. How the character moves so achingly slowly, especially when crawling, to the point that when multiple enemies were chasing me I literally yelled "RUN FASTER BITCH" as the player character slowly sauntered their way to the right. How the story is tripe kindergarten grade school level bullshit and the puzzles are incredibly weak and barely make you think.
I'm not sure I listed all of them but this is me, unfiltered and coming fresh out of finishing this piece of garbage. There's a side of me that really wants to give the game more leeway considering how pretty and well polished it is. But the overwhelming majority of me, who just uninstalled it, wants to vent. My experience started off being bored and ended with me being annoyed and the worst sin a game can make, worse than being boring, is being annoying. And Planet of Lana was certainly EXTREMELY annoying.
The game is very pretty. The music is nice. I didn't face any bugs. That's about all I can say that's nice about this package.
There are heaps of small annoyances that continually add up over time. How you're essentially just holding right for long stretches. How the music doesn't quite fit in a lot of places. How your main character screams EEELOOO at the most inappropriate and pointless places. How you get a little creature you control and it's so janky and awkward at every single point. How the vision cones of the enemies flat out lies to you and some enemies don't have a vision cone at all. How most puzzles are basically just hiding from these vision cones. How you have to make the creature drop down ropes to progress at multiple points in the game and it requires zero thought. How the game suddenly adds a bunch of useless QTEs that make you button mash. How the backgrounds don't quite transition well between scenes and you go from a wide open sea to a desert suddenly and it doesn't quite make sense. How the game isn't seamless and frequently cuts to black for cutscenes and takes away control from you. How the game drops you multiple times after cutscenes into brief spots that make you hold right for literally seconds before transitioning you into another cutscene. How the character moves so achingly slowly, especially when crawling, to the point that when multiple enemies were chasing me I literally yelled "RUN FASTER BITCH" as the player character slowly sauntered their way to the right. How the story is tripe kindergarten grade school level bullshit and the puzzles are incredibly weak and barely make you think.
I'm not sure I listed all of them but this is me, unfiltered and coming fresh out of finishing this piece of garbage. There's a side of me that really wants to give the game more leeway considering how pretty and well polished it is. But the overwhelming majority of me, who just uninstalled it, wants to vent. My experience started off being bored and ended with me being annoyed and the worst sin a game can make, worse than being boring, is being annoying. And Planet of Lana was certainly EXTREMELY annoying.