Immortal Planet

Immortal Planet: A Challenging Action RPG

After its release on PC in 2017, the action and RPG game Immortal Planet appears on all current home devices to attract the attention of Souls game fans from the FromSoftware development team. Is it worth attention? We find out in this test report.

A race of immortal creatures lives on a cold, ice-covered planet. These creatures do not know true death. They live in a continuous cycle of death and rebirth that drives many people crazy. Therefore, these creatures fall into a deep sleep to preserve their identity and forget the suffering that this life brings. The story puts us in a state of sleep. In the role of one of these immortal beings who, as usual, has not yet lost his mind on this cruel planet, the story is not the most important element of the experience, and there are a few simple texts to provide the background in which the events take place, to remember, nothing more.

Immortal Planet uses simple cartoon graphics that are anything but fussy in the details, and this approach gives the game a beautiful look. However, there is a severe slowdown in frames when the screen is crowded with enemies or special effects such as fire and other visual effects, and the response becomes very poor and laggy in such cases. On the audio level, the game offers some melodies of an epic nature that serve their purpose without getting stuck in the memory.

Slow Pace and Strategic Gameplay

As mentioned, Immortal Planet is one of the games similar to FromSoftware’s Souls series, and it showcases the primitive gameplay style of those games without trying to offer anything that sets it apart from the other experiences, aside from a few simple ones Ideas. The pace of play here is slow and experience depends on strategy, as attacks quickly deplete the power meter or… stamina, and when this meter is empty you cannot attack or dodge. The same goes for your opponents. When you receive an enemy attack with an attack from your side, you take no damage and consume part of the power meter. You can charge towards the enemy when they have depleted their stamina meter to deliver a shock that prevents them from moving for a few seconds.

The gaming experience is undoubtedly difficult and is marred by the imbalance in difficulty. In many cases you are limited to a slow pace of play, but sometimes you face multiple opponents at the same time, and in such cases victory is very difficult, especially given the limited number of attacks that can be made before an attack is required. Waiting for the performance meter to fill is a slow process. The difficulty increases annoyingly from one trench to another, especially in confrontations with leaders whose difficulty changes and do not take into account the limitations that we mentioned in the previous lines.

As is usual in games of this type, there is an object that you can use to restore life points, and there are also a number of magical abilities and tools that you can use. One can choose a weapon to use, and each weapon in the game is characterized by an alternate phase that activates a specific ability or provides an advantage in battle. Defeating enemies gives you experience points that you can use. To advance the character and if you are eliminated, you must return to the same place where you lost and win back these points. Each trench offers a side challenge to test your skills, but I found these challenges confusing as they put you on a completely black map and then the ground randomly appears on that map and you will often fall. Such challenges are because you are unaware of the actual shape of the card, and you can imagine how much boredom you feel when you keep losing because of this.

A Challenging Experience for Souls Fans

10 hours was enough to complete the game, get most of the treasures in it and complete most of the challenges. We can say that Immortal Planet is a good experience and offers some entertaining moments when the challenge is balanced, but it is aimed at professional Dark Souls fans who are looking for difficulty and challenge without paying attention to variety, and many will find difficult. Very if you want the usual experience for a quarter of the full price it’s a good experience, but otherwise it’s not aimed at you.

We tested this game on a Nintendo Switch version provided by the publisher before the game was released.