Deliver Us The Moon

I loved the visuals, and the story was good. It feels real enough. Negatives include the combination of poor controls with the choice to focus on dexterity and include timers, so you're basically dying a couple times on incredibly easy things while figuring out how to adapt to controls or pass the area only after you know what to expect. That is common, but I don't like it. Overall, I am glad I played it but disappointed at the lack of creativity. The tools at your disposal are barely explored before it's over. It's both too easy and hard for the wrong reasons in spots.

If story is core to a cinematic gaming experience, then playing this game is "like ordering a pie, then finding out it has no filling". The gameplay elements are not bad on the whole, though there are plenty of spots that make no sense in a game that is supposed to hark to some kind of future reality. For instance, what idiot puts the safety and control mechanisms for a fusion power generator AT THE TOP of the actual generator? Nobody consulted with a nuclear engineer on this one, and it really clashes with the setting. Too many things were thrown in like that, purely for gameplay's sake. There's a lot of voice acting, and I didn't find any particular problems with any of it; the dialogue was good and the voices were convincing. The modeling, texturing, and graphical environment as a whole all worked well. When you're in a rover on the surface, it's not hard to imagine that you're driving on the moon. All the good parts are wasted on the rotten framework of what passed for a story. A devastating climate shift and an energy crisis have forced us to mine helium from moon rocks, build a fusion reactor (remember, in 2023 those don't exist) big enough for the whole planet's power needs, and beam the power a quarter-million miles through space to a receiver network on the planet? And the massive infrastructure of this system having been badly damaged, you are the one person sent to bring it all back online and save the planet? I'm familiar with a willing suspension of disbelief, but this is excessive. I don't know who wrote the plot to this thing, but it feels like it took maybe part of a busy afternoon to bang out the final draft.

I would like to give this game 3 stars and a half, but I had to settle with 3. 3 because while the game is fun in itself, the story is absolutely unbelievable, like sending one man to the moon to save humanity, but only give him oxygen that will last for two minutes and a half. Luckily there are air canisters floating around about everywhere...

... with the jump sequence in Tombaugh Station. You get lucky or you have to repeat in 50 times. One sequence should not be so important to a game. First of all it is a adventure, so the problem solving should be more important than the moving skills. With mouse and keyboard it's a nightmare.

I dont think this game to be worth the full price. I cleared it in only 9 hours and I dont want to play it anymore. Firstly, action parts are filled with frustrating QTEs and dizzy visual effects, which made me feel almost sick. In addition, the story writing is not bad but also not special, so it cant be entertaining to replay. Maybe it is worth at most 5 dollars.