Resolve your family issues on the red planet in Deliver Us Mars.
To paraphrase Philip Larkin: They mess you up, your mum and dad. Deliver Us Mars protagonist Kathy can make a stronger case for that truism than most, having watched her father disappear off into space to save the rapidly declining planet without her, only to not actually get around to saving said dying planet thereafter. Stuck down there on an overheating homeworld full of panicking denizens, Kathy channels her childhood passion for space into an obsession with becoming an astronaut.
You do get the sense that a lot of the subtlety of the actors’ performances is lost in translation by the time you watch it play out on slightly dead-eyed character models though. It’s telling a grand story on a limited budget, and unconvincing faces seem to be one of the consequences. After a prologue that whizzes through Kathy’s childhood via a few of her most painful memories and idyllic moments turned tragic by the passage of time, you’re all grown up.
As it turns out, in mechanical terms Deliver Us Mars eventually boils down to a combination of third-person platforming, a bizarre amount of ice axe climbing, energy beam puzzles, piloting bots through tight spaces, and—my personal favourite—lasering things apart in first-person. Once you’ve been introduced to each of these concepts, the subsequent chapters find new ways to combine them into big set-pieces and escalate them in scale.
The laser cutting doesn’t increase in payoffs either, but that’s fine because I find laser cutting intrinsically very satisfying. Honestly, the game could have been nine hours of guiding white-hot energy across soft metals and I’d have been placated. Your mileage may vary.
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