His attempt at being tough and puffing out his chest to a tornado ended in the tornado’s favor, as did his attempt at running through giant moving fan blades. During the review play through, the poor astronaut had his durability tested. Due to the nonviolent nature, the death frequency is nowhere near the likes of Dark Souls of Battletoads, but not dying at all does require some finesse. With gameplay that fits into the quasi genre of walking simulator, there is no combat to speak of in this virtually uninhabited world. My theory was this world was inhabited by Draags, but sadly I have not encountered any at the time of this writing. Some of the structures that are encountered are made to accommodate very tall beings, most likely of the nonhuman variety.
This presents two possible scenarios to our explorer, either we have arrived after others have colonized and something bad happened, or the entire journey was a hoax and we are still in Earth in a Planet of the Apes inspired human free world. Evidence of a settlement on this new world presents itself early on in this adventure, but there seems to be no living people present. During the exploration some unsettling data is discovered: his crew was not the first group here. Now that he has enough oxygen to not die, he begins the task of exploring this world which is really what Lifeless Planet is all about. It looks like some of the intel that was gathered on this planet prior to the mission was somewhat suspect, since he is standing in a vast desert depending on imported air to survive. Luckily the fine folks at mission control had enough foresight to send oxygen refilling stations to arrive prior to our explorers, though there is a note questioning the necessity of them due to how supportive of life the environment is.
So much for this being an inhabitable planet. One is his crew members are missing, and the other is he is very low on oxygen. Soon this trivial matter is forgotten because there are two slightly bigger problems afoot. It’s probably more likely because he is going through caffeine withdrawal due to being in a comatose state the past several years to minimize aging during travel, he just needs to pop some ibuprofen and stop whining. After a landing that was not textbook perfect our hero has a raging headache that he thinks may be a concussion. Reading over those previous sentences, this seems like an airtight plan with no realistic chance of anything going wrong. This mission is a one way trip to explore this new world that is supposedly an ideal place to sustain human life, rich with life sustaining vegetation. A crew of astronauts embark on a mission to explore a distant planet, one that is far enough away it takes several years to reach even traveling at double the speed of light. If there are many things I can’t stand, one of them is when travel doesn’t go according to plan, and Lifeless Planet tells such a tale of travel plans gone awry.
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