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Lunark means5/19/2023 ![]() If you’re damaged, you’ll need to make good use of the plants that bear a healthy fruit that you can eat to heal some of your wounds. You’ll get to shoot at huge spiders that will rush toward you as they try to eat you alive, as well as giant bats that are very protective of their territory. Once inside, you’ll get a taste of the game’s action and puzzle elements. Weird, right? As mentioned before, the cutscenes were rotoscoped, which means the animation looks really, really good. After bringing your hand closer to it – by way of a cutscene – the engraving will start to glow, and the floor will open up, allowing you to explore the ruins. Once you arrive at your destination, that’s when you’ll realize what Gideon meant. Leo seems confused about the whole exchange but follows Gideon’s orders. He gives you a gun and mentions that the coordinates for your next destination have already been uploaded to your ship. You’re asked to use your abilities to track down a very ancient artifact. While Leo is very grateful about it, Gideon says it’s time for Leo to pay him back. While being very vague about things, he mentions that even though Leo has always been different, he put a roof over his head, gave him an education, and even provided him with a job. Something you won’t learn until later on is that you can punch enemies if they get too close, which might give you a chance to avoid being ambushed. It’s during this segment which, as Leo just happens to mention, feels like a video game, that LUNARK will display all of the controls for moving, running, climbing down a ledge, jumping forward, making a long jump by getting a good run before jumping, rolling, as well as for shooting at a target. After talking to Gideon – who just happens to be Leo’s mentor – you’ll be able to control one of the droids that are being built at the factory. You’ll get to learn all of the basics during an early sequence in LUNARK. I do have to mention that having the jump mapped to the X button felt very weird, so I used the in-game controller configuration menu to switch what the X and B buttons did. Since you’ll run into some enemies here and there, you’ll have to fire your weapon at them with the Y button. Leo has a roll that can be used with the A button, as well as a shield that can be activated with the L button when needed. You can run by pressing and holding down the R button. You’ll control Leo with the left analog stick or the D-Pad, jumping with the X button to overcome some gaps along the way or to jump up towards a ledge so that you can go higher. ![]() You’ll also have to open doors by stepping on switches – you know, the usual. While there, you’ll have to open up your inventory to show one of the guards at the entrance that you’re not armed – something about the recent series of terrorist attacks. Things will start off easy enough as Leo lands at one of the factories overseen by someone known as Gideon. LUNARK is set on a distant planet ruled by a totalitarian regime, and it’s up to you to rise up and join the revolution before it’s too late. It’s now 2023, and with the support of WayForward as the publisher, LUNARK is ready to go on the Nintendo Switch. While the original plan was to release LUNARK in 2020, the pandemic did a number on the world. Once the crowdfunding campaign was over, and thanks to the support of over 2,800 backers, the studio managed to secure a little over CAD $81,500 in funding. Your journey will take you from a dystopian megalopolis to eerie caves to an alien forest.Ĭanari Games took the project to Kickstarter back in early 2019 seeking CAD $70,000 in funding to bring the project to life. ![]() You’ll be taking on the role of one Leo, a courier with… unique abilities. Think of a pixel art style Another World or Flashback with a dash of Prince of Persia, and you wouldn’t be that far off! LUNARK even uses rotoscoping for its cutscenes, which really gives it that 1990s look and feel we all know and love. ![]() LUNARK from WayForward and Canari Games is a sci-fi cinematic platformer that pays homage to 1980s-1990s entries in the genre.
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