🕹️ New release: Lunar Lander Beyond

Worlds

Moby ID: 182679

Windows version

Looks good, I enjoyed it but I still abandoned it

The Good
This is a free game but it has more content than some games I have paid for.

There is a good tutorial bit at the beginning where my character was a trainee agent and had to go through a series of virtual rooms, this was very like the training bit at the beginning of Deus Ex.

Then there's the idea that missions generate money which can be used to buy better weapons, clothing and equipment. and finally the missions themselves, I think there were at least a dozen, certainly plenty to do.

There's decent music, not the sort I'd sit and listen to but it did complement the game quite well. The dialogue is decent too and it changed as the game progressed, for example I'd talk to a NPC and exhaust all possibilities then later when I picked up a quest or some more information there'd be additional dialogue when I chatted to the same NPC later on.

The Bad
The save game system spoils this for me.
Now I played this game for nearly three hours. I'd finished the training and I'd wandered around quite aimlessly in the first mission wondering what to do. I'd picked up point bonuses, weapons, ammo, and a couple of additional lives. Then I made progress, I knew what I needed to do but I made a mistake and I died.
Now I'd been through what I thought were checkpoints during that mission but when I was resurrected I was back in The Order's HQ and I had to play it all through he mission again. To be fair now I had an idea what I was supposed to do I made progress a lot faster but as I did so I looked for places to save and I found none.
I'm pretty certain that if I found a bed I could sleep in that would save my game and maybe if I earned more points I could rent a room and make that happen but instead I abandoned the game. My reason for doing so is this. There are probably around a dozen missions in the game and repeatedly dying and losing all progress would begin to annoy me a great deal. Rather than play any further and get frustrated I decided to call it a day.

The Bottom Line
From what I played of this game I think it is a good game with a lot going for it. Unfortunately the idea of regularly losing all progress spoils it for me.

by piltdown_man (237219) on August 28, 2023

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