Planet of Lana is an elegant side-scroller
The genre stuff alone is enough is to slot this in alongside games like Inside and Somerville - games with which it also shares an apocalyptic focus. the world is being over-run by horrors! Escape if you can! All good, but traditions can be surprising, and as I played Planet of Lana I found myself thinking a little bit about the idea of masterpieces.
All of which is to say that nothing in Planet of Lana is really a surprise, but I'm not sure it's meant to be a surprise. It's meant to be elegantly done, and smartly detailed, and free of frustrations. And it is. And over time I think it became something more too.The game starts off in a delightful bucolic community where people live off the land and wear smocks and build houses on stilts out of wood.
At its simplest, there are patches of long grass to duck into and rock channels to sneak under as you learn enemy patrols - generally limited to a single screen or so - and look for openings. Things get more complex when you throw in some basic jumping and climbing challenges, and considerably more complex when you fall in with an adorable little creature, a sort of blob of ink inspired by both cats and dogs.
Planet of Lana has poise and pace. Its environments slowly change as you progress, moving from dreamy grasslands to murky woods, deserts, and some really strange spaces beyond. It knows when to give you a bit of a complex multi-part challenge - avoid enemies, trap them in a certain part of the level, make the environment safe before climbing it - and when to throw in some simple traversal your way so you can catch a breath.
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