{"id":14864,"date":"2016-04-27T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2016-04-04T22:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T22:59:24","slug":"lovely-planet-wii-u-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/lovely-planet-wii-u-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Planet (Wii U, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LOVELY_BOX\"<\/a>I\u2019m not too big on first person shooter games. There\u2019s nothing wrong with them, but I\u2019m not very good at them.\u00a0 Plus, most FPS games are about war and darker themes that I\u2019m not too terribly interested in.\u00a0 I have dabbled in a few early FPS games that were a bit more whimsical, like Chex Quest or Faceball 2000, but those are few and far between.\u00a0 So when Lovely Planet, a downloadable game for Wii U, Xbox One, and PC came along (Wii U version reviewed here), I was intrigued.\u00a0 Here was a FPS game with visuals that looked like Katamari Damacy meets Doom.\u00a0 Or \u201cKatamari Doom-acy,\u201d as I called it (I\u2019m so clever).\u00a0 So will Lovely Planet get me into FPS games?\u00a0 Read on to find out!<\/p>\n

The gameplay in Lovely Planet is pretty basic. You just walk around in a first person perspective and shoot baddies with a simple rapid fire peashooter magic wand type gun.\u00a0 Each stage is pretty short, and you must get through as quickly as you can and touch a pillar to finish the stage, but you must also shoot every baddie as well.\u00a0 The faster you complete a stage, the more stars you\u2019ll earn (up to three for each level).\u00a0 If you get hit by an enemy, fall of the sides, or shoot an innocent bystander, you\u2019ll have to start the stage over again.<\/p>\n

Controls are pretty simple. You can run and look around, shoot your gun, and jump.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much it.\u00a0 My favorite feature is the auto aim button.\u00a0 Press it near an enemy and you will automatically aim at it.\u00a0 There\u2019s no switching guns or crouching so you can just concentrate on running and gunning as fast as you can.\u00a0 Some enemies just stand there, but others will shoot at you or lob explosive apples that\u2019ll kill you if they land.\u00a0 Watch out for other obstacles like deadly red rocks, collapsible platforms, and proximity mines that can hinder your progress.<\/p>\n

While I love the simple to understand gameplay and the visuals and music that are like a cross between Katamari Damacy and Loco Roco, the game just gets too hard, too fast for me. It\u2019s really designed for FPS pros who enjoy speedrunning through short levels.\u00a0 Also the game could\u2019ve used more modes, like an online deathmatch or something.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still a fun and unique experience that you should try if you enjoy those kinds of games.\u00a0 At PAX South, Tiny Build showed off a game called Lovely Planet Arcade that looks even more simple and inviting for novice FPS players, and while I don\u2019t know what systems it\u2019ll be on yet, I\u2019ll definitely keep an eye out for it.<\/p>\n

\"LOVELY_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lovely Planet is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence. While you do shoot things with an unrealistic looking gun, they just disappear when defeated, and they all look like geometric shapes with eyes anyway, so the violence isn\u2019t very graphic.\u00a0 And when you get hit, you just hear a \u2018smack\u2019 sound and start over at the beginning of the stage.\u00a0 I\u2019d be OK with any kid playing this, but reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty.\u00a0 It may be a good compromise for kids who want to play violent shooters like Doom, but aren\u2019t old enough yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not too big on first person shooter games. There\u2019s nothing wrong with them, but I\u2019m not very good at them.\u00a0 Plus, most FPS games are about war and darker themes that I\u2019m not too terribly interested in.\u00a0 I have dabbled in a few early FPS games that were a bit more whimsical, like Chex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14866,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions\/14866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}