![]() ![]() Environmental Puzzles Journey to the Savage Planet/505 Games Not every upgrade falls into these exact tiers, but its close enough. Finally, inventory upgrades let you carry more things, and lets you collect certain plants to act as grenades. While also improving the scanning radius. Visor upgrades dot the landscape for hidden collectibles. Locomotion upgrades unlock double (and triple) jumps, as well as high jumps. Combat upgrades make the piddly gun a trifle less piddly. Upgrades generally fall into a few categories: combat, locomotion, visor, or inventory. Killing enemies or shooting at certain rocks, gets you the materials you need to 3D print more stuff. It gives off the impression that combat is an afterthought, instead of something that actually matters. Even when you do hit enemies, they don’t recoil or notice. Shots ping off enemies like they don’t even feel them. I wouldn’t say the combat is bad, it just doesn’t feel good. Most enemies, at least the bigger ones, tend to have yellow/orange weak points which are very obvious. You do unlock upgrades to add in a charge shot (with a really bad mini-game), as well as damage boosts/speedier reloads, but it never actually feels good or impactful. You only ever have the pistol weapon, which is about as effective as a pea-shooter. Combat Journey to the Savage Planet/505 Games It helps immensely that the game differentiates what needs to be scanned, and what doesn’t. When you enter scan mode, the entire game takes a wireframe green look, except for new things to scan (yellow), or things you have currently scanned (orange). You can use your visor to scan different animals, plants, even walls, switches, and other mysterious items. Scanning is VERY much like Metroid Prime. You may have to gather the required materials for it (carbon, silicon or aluminum) to 3D Print it, but that’s about it. You’ll soon come to an impassable obstacle, wherein your robot companion tells you to come back to the ship (either teleport or walk) and you’ll be given an upgrade to get around it. ![]() The gun is obvious, you can shoot the plants/animals if you want. Starting out, a gun and a scanning visor are your basic tools. Except that you only explore one planet and there are actual objectives in the game too. Savage Planet really excels in the exploration part of its design. Aside from the dozens of different plants available for you to catalog, ARY-26, the planet you’re on is teaming full of strange life, some hostile and some not. Oh, also, you might check out an occasional alien artifact or two, on a supposedly uninhabited planet. So your job is to catalog all the various flora and fauna on the planet and report back. You land on a planet that needs to get surveyed for potential colonization and exploitation. The basic premise of Journey to the Savage Planet is that you are an employee of The 4 th Best Exploration Company, Kindred Aerospace. The Story Journey to the Savage Planet/505 Games Journey to the Savage Planet is more akin to the latter two examples, as it focuses much more on exploration, specifically vertical exploration, and less on combat. With some recent examples being Metroid Prime, Prey, and Alien: Isolation. Honestly, I can really only think of a few 3D Metroidvania games, especially ones from the first-person perspective. Obviously, this isn’t really new, but it is still a highly uncommon genre for 3D. Then, you can go back and mop up the areas you couldn’t get to previously. You’ll enter a new area and find a ton of blocked off passages that require specific items/abilities to get through. Eventually, you’ll find a boss or a key item that unlocks even newer areas too. Journey to the Savage Planet is basically a first-person Metroidvania game. Other than that it plays best in co-op and it might keep me from playing anymore Resident Evil 6 with my friend online. However, as we played it, I found myself really enjoying it, and it would be an easy recommendation, if not for a few small missteps that turn it from an excellent game to merely a good one. When I was asked to review Journey to the Savage Planet, I knew almost nothing about it. ![]()
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