Ready to play Planet of Lana when it launches into Xbox Game Pass today? Check out our first impressions after a few hours with the beautiful puzzle adventure game...
In a time of rocky launches and last-minute changes, it feels rare to get something that looks and plays almost exactly like what we were promised in that first bewitching trailer all that time ago. And that’s what we seem to have with
— in the first few hours I’ve played, Planet of Lana manages to be just as beautiful and atmospheric as we could have hoped.Planet of Lana is a puzzle adventure game which sees Lana’s once-peaceful village attacked by alien robots. All of its people are taken away, including Lana’s sister, and Lana sets out on a mission to find her.
Mui is also very useful — Lana can direct them to stop or follow her, and Mui can jump higher than Lana, meaning we can send them to inaccessible areas to help with things like dropping ropes for Lana to climb. Mui also interacts with the world in surprising ways, helping Lana in places where she might otherwise have gotten stuck. The only problem is that after watching Mui make yet another spectacular leap, I’d often forget Lana isn’t as agile, and send her tumbling to a ragdoll death.
Lana speaks an unknown language, and aside from calling for her sister or chatting to Mui, the game leaves players to decipher its story from any clues they glean while traveling across the planet of Lana. This doesn’t detract from the experience at all, and the game keeps a nice balance between raising your curiosity about the planet’s mysteries without frustrating you with its reticence.
Heidi spent roughly two hours embarking on Lana and Mui's rescue mission, earning roughly four achievements as she did so. A review copy was provided by the publisher and played on an Xbox Series X.
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