LUNARK

Since this is an another world/flashback homage/clone it is only natural that people are comparing the game to it, so it's gonna have it tough since the expectations are high. And compared to the original this sucks. If you manage to grind through the first most boring 4 levels of your life ever the game gets a little bit better but is still kind of lame. The progression is too slow and not challenging enough. Imagine having checkpoint with infinite lives every 10 seconds where dying even saves your progression of having something picked up before you died. But the gameplay would be boring even if the challenge adjustements were made, the level design just drags and is very vanilla. On top of that, if you're making an another world clone after 25 years of the original you better live up to the expectations and make the art direction/animation AT LEAST as good as the original, which was more awesome even though its from 2 decades ago. The animations are limited to few cutscenes plus incredibly repetitive "hand picking up/pressing object x" animations without any spark of creativity. It was just disappointment in every direction possible. Very mediocre experience, like 4/10

The game is good, but sometimes it is really overwrought in some situations, especially at the end of the game. Its a great nostalgia, but still, sometimes I though just get over with it.

i just meh

Where is the boundary between paying homage and straight up copying? LUNARK raises this question for me. LUNARK supposedly pays homage to cinematic platformer classics, such as Another World and Flashback, but it feels more like just copying ideas from those two games. The story of LUNARK is also quite bland. The overly pixelated graphics are not my favorite either although I recognize that they appeal to some people. The best part of this game is the soundtrack with some memorable tracks. I struggle whether to recommend this game or not. First, I have to give credit to the person mainly behind the game (Johan Vinet) for simply creating a cinematic platformer in the first place which requires some real work. But if you want to sample the genre of cinematic platformers, then there are better titles available, such as Flashback, Another World and Blackthorne (1994) and also many other well known games (Oddworld series, Prince of Persia etc.) I have not personally played. If you just want to play a new cinematic platformer, then in that case you should play LUNARK.

OMG! I love this game SO much. The art, down to every pixel. The music! Like I said to Johan on Twitter: It has a kind of epicness similar to LBA/LBA2. It is a gem yet to be discovered by many people.

Excellent cinématique plateformer, classique dans sa forme et dans son fond; parfait hommage aux jeux de ma jeunesse !