An odyssey to another world.
There are so many games out there that wear their inspirations proudly, pinned to their breast like a badge of the highest honour. For some, it ends up showing just how lacking their imitation ultimately is (take Fall of Light: Darkest Edition’s love for Dark Souls, for instance), but for a select few that obvious love letter serves as a springboard for something enchanting in its own right. Planet Alpha falls so comfortably into the latter category it’s impossible to not be swept up in its 2.5D puzzle-platforming and vibrant extraterrestrial backdrop.
You can see the games that have left their impact on Planet Alpha’s Danish developer. The sense of wonder at exploring a foreign setting of Another World. The creative solutions to environmental puzzles of Abe’s Odyssey. The occasional need for stealth to evade a seemingly unstoppable antagonist, a la Inside. The tension and suspense of Pitfall. But none of these creative nods ever feel derivative because this is a game that takes familiar elements and weaves them into something fresh and exciting.
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