Review: Lovely Planet (Xbox One)

A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!

Pros:

• Really nice art style. You get a real Katamari, Proteus HD feel from it all. minimalist with colour and impact.
• FPS speed runner game. Shoot all the enemies, navigate the level and hit the end in the quickest time possible.
• Small download size: 255MB.
• Tutorials are like the graphics…minimal with the game adopting the style where need to know buttons and actions are displayed on the walls of the level as and when you need them.
• 1000 Gamerscore.
• Cheap price point especially for the unique experience and wealth of content.
• Brilliant oriental vibe soundtrack.
• Instant respawn upon death or by pressing restart button.
• Simple controls LT to jump and RT to shoot, that’s it! Oh and left and right stick for movement and camera.
• Can invert controls.
• Timer on/off.
• World map hub where you can replay levels and jump ahead if you want.
• Crazy addictive fun gameplay with the classic “Just one more go” mentality.
• Comical Japanese cut-scenes.
• Unlock new styles of play with new mechanics like the ability to look at the level before hand.
• Wide selection of enemies with some stationery some shoot back, and some are water balloons! Just don’t let them pop!
• Levels get progressivly harder and faster.
• Level time is scored on a 3 star system and is all about time, if you miss an enemy then you wont get a final time and must restart.

Cons:

• No crosshair for shooting which makes it harder than it should be.
• Not sure if it has online leaderboards as it only shows a world record score.
• No real point to the stars system really.
• Difficulty spikes.