The certainty of death and the loneliness of the universe have never been so colorful and fun. While our tiny, intrepid and faceless spaceman seems fated to die in Lost Orbit, his navigation of asteroids, planets, and galactic barriers makes for a simple and exhilarating lark.
From PixelNauts comes this lovely animated space adventure, a straightforward gaming experience that gains a lot from its simple conceit. Our diminutive hero, cartoonish in nature with a big helmet, small body, and major resilience (he gets right back out there after crashing head-first into a space rock), has so much personality for doing and saying so little. He is the stereotypical determined, anonymous video game hero. We meet him disembarking a spacecraft and suddenly there is he, equipped with a jetpack and that’s all, set to traverse a landscape where he is the only life form.
The set-up has us controlling the character,...
From PixelNauts comes this lovely animated space adventure, a straightforward gaming experience that gains a lot from its simple conceit. Our diminutive hero, cartoonish in nature with a big helmet, small body, and major resilience (he gets right back out there after crashing head-first into a space rock), has so much personality for doing and saying so little. He is the stereotypical determined, anonymous video game hero. We meet him disembarking a spacecraft and suddenly there is he, equipped with a jetpack and that’s all, set to traverse a landscape where he is the only life form.
The set-up has us controlling the character,...
- 5/9/2015
- by Anthony Marcusa
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