Hot off the heels of Racoon Logic Studios', Journey to the Savage Planet comes the spin-off sequel that is Revenge of the Savage Planet. This comedically charged 3D action adventure with Metroidvania inspired exploration and resource based crafting mechanics has you embarking on a spacefaring quest for colonization to another planet to save humanity. Your colonization package is shipped well ahead of you via Alta InterStellar's teleportation systems leaving you to journey in cryo-sleep to your destination behind it through more slow paced means. Unfortunately you meet it there over 100 years later only to find your new accommodations scattered here there and yonder across the alien planet.
Your initial goal upon landing is to assess your situation, and slowly but surely get things back in working order to fulfill your role in the mission, surprises not accounted for. Accompanying you is the sassy & sarcastic EKO AI robot assistant. The one companion that will lead you from objective to objective with crass commentary to boot.
As humanity's last hope for planetary colonization your mission seems cut and dry. Sadly, you soon find out upon crash landing your ship that your goal is now a search, recover, and rebuild situation. EKO, your AI assistant kicks your adventure off leading you from the wreckage on a point to point scouting tour as you find out more about the planet's biology, and use the resources and equipment you find along the way to deck out your makeshift NuFlorida habitat. This requires basic combat in the form of melee attacks, and shooting as well as precision platforming via jetpack, and other traversal and item interactive means that open up to you the more you explore.
Once you uncover your NuFlorida habitat the real mission begins. Objective after objective you will scour, scourge, an survey the land and it's inhabitants to gain the resources needed to craft gear, and deck out your humble abode with luxuries. Some of which come through Alta's remote catalog ordering system, and their Alta bucks. You'll be able to scan and identify wildlife, items, structures, and plants learning more about what they offer, if anything. Resources, themselves come from creature casualties and various other rock-like formations. All of which will be applied to your 3D printer when crafting something new.
In addition to the 3D printer you have access to a computer terminal that hosts emails from various Savage Planet persons of interest along with video chats, hilarious commercials, and the room decorator from which you can order further furnishings through Alta's catalog using Alta bucks found in Alta lockboxes out in the wild. There's this and the meat printer which acts as your resurrection chamber in the event you should die on your outing. You do have a limited life bar that can be refilled through specific flora as well as upgrades that boost damage, stamina, and health. In dying you must, like a soulslike, travel back to the scene of the crime, and recollect your loot as it does not come back with you at the habitat.
Needless to say, the more you explore the more you'll unlock. This leads to a chain of side and main objectives. Including dangerous and lucrative flora and fauna encounters. Something that spans multiple planets through habitat teleportation up to the game's conclusion. That having been said you can experience this wacky and wild adventure solo or co-op in the couch and online sense of the meaning. There is no crossplay through online though. For those of you who bought the Hoarder edition you'll get bonuses in the form of a soundtrack and bonus art gallery.
The Verdict ...
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a curiously comedic Metroidvania-like experience centered around exploration and crafting. It is filled with live action videos, and commercials that are truly icing on the cake. The onscreen characters are the star of the show, and the wildlife equally as hilarious, both in life and death. The game is mostly satire wrapped up in comedic sarcasm with a touch of gore and violence to spice things up. Think Idiocracy meets Borderlands in terms of characterization, and looting. The animation and art style compliments the comedy as well. That and the soundtrack breathes life into this bio-diverse slapstick look at humanity and it's pursuit for survival and conquest. A must buy and must experience GOTY contender!!!
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