Even though Lifeless Planet: Premiere Edition marginally runs smoother on the big screen, in handheld mode the frames of animation stutter so badly it looks like a 10-year-old’s claymation attempt filmed on a bootleg Chinese mobile app.
There were several occasions where I had to reload the last checkpoint or even restart a whole chapter due to either getting hopelessly stuck between an invisible void and a rocky cavity or unintentionally breaking the game’s incredibly ropey puzzle mechanics. Performance-wise the whole experience is plagued with muddy visuals, dreadful animations and riddled with more invisible walls than a mime artist in a rave club. Unfortunately, everything else surrounding the game’s ambitious scope is held together with a loose thread of cotton. Especially with how interestingly shaped some of the rocky landscapes can very mildly reflect areas from the later released, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
In knowing that one man has written, designed and developed this game is certainly quite the achievement within itself. What is impressive is the scope of the world that David has forged under a tight budget in order to entice the player into space-hopping across alien terrain. David Board’s own successful campaign would see his game become one of the earliest titles to take advantage of the popular crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter. Mars One seeks to use investment, media and advertising to fund their project to lift it off the ground. However, what completely throws the astronaut off guard more than anything, is the abandoned Soviet Union research facilities that stand within a short walking distance from the shuttle’s crash site. Furthermore, the world around him seems to be a barren wasteland and nothing close to what was originally pitched to him. male astronaut, wakes from a cryogenic slumber to find his ship has crash landed and the crew has gone missing. The sole protagonist of the story, an unnamed U.S. Unfortunately, things don’t go quite according to plan. But rather than landing on our neighbouring planet, the crew of four instead travels lightyears to a world that’s reported to be brimming with life similar to our own. In David Board’s 2014 sole-developed indie title Lifeless Planet: Premiere Edition, a similar “one-way ticket” mission is already taking place. A mission that, if successful, would be a massive turning point in scientific achievement. To nobody’s surprise, 2,700 hopefuls would curiously apply to become a candidate for this incredible suicide mission. The project, known as Mars One, would hand-select a small number of public volunteers to embark on a one-way journey to settle on the red planet. Back in 2012, a Dutch organisation ambitiously set out to make a rather ludicrous proposal that could finally see humans landing on Martian soil.
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