Journey to the Savage Planet

Sad that they never fixed some commonly known bugs but none of them make the game unplayable or anything. It's a ton of fun - I recommend to play together with a friend tho.

This game sees you stranded on an alien planet, needing to scan plant and wildlife while uncovering what is hidden on the planet. The game world is vibrant with some humour built into the animal and area design. Exploration feels good, lots of hidden nooks and crannies to go delving into. In a metroidvania fashion, you will unlock more abilities to harness the resources of the planet to open new avenues, so don't spend too much time trying to find your way past an obstacle, you will likely return later with better gear for the task. Compared to the sequel (Revenge of...), this game focuses a lot more on you exploring floating islands and small contained areas. Fall damage is a thing (Until you unlock the last upgrade anyway), so the game becomes a first person platformer puzzle combined with exploration of several smaller areas. The major downfall of this game for me is the combat which gets rather repetetive, and the game will mock you, if you decide to not scan every single creature and plant and pick up every available secret. At least the game will let you get an upgrade to ping pickups in your area onto your HUD for the completionist. But missing scanned items is pretty much a slog back and forth. In summary: Fun vibrant platformer focused on exploring rather memorable areas. Not many games like this out there.

love the atmosphere of the game...

Pretty fun game tho it can get pretty repetitive, the ads are great. The overall story is meh, the world is awesome and some enemies, the dlc is pretty good.

Savage Planet is a game that could be easily described as an action Metroidvania in wich your AI companion does all the hard work for you. As soon as you reach an obstacle that requires an upgrade in order to be conquered the AI companion will not just tell you so but also tell you what it is that you need to progress, where to find it, and exactly how to get there by providing on-screen objective markers. Some obstacles that require abilities like Super-jump (whatever the actual name is) and Stomp actually have alien inscriptions at their starting points telling you that you need such upgrades in order to progress. It really is a case in which all player agency is removed and replaced with objective markers. Case in point, there is early-on a quest that requires you finding the 3 scattered pieces of a shattered crystal. All you have to do, and the AI companion makes sure to spell that out, is enable your scan view in order to reveal lines that guide you to each of the missing pieces. No exploration and evironmental awareness. No agency. Just follow the lines. This game in a nutshell. The game is fun and addictive, and it's got personality (for better or worse depending on your taste for humor), but if you're looking for atmosphere, meaningful exploration and an interesting and curiosity-inducing world, like all good metroidvanias and games like Outer Wilds feature, look elsewhere.