Immortal Planet

An atypical souls-like action RPG far from being flawless but still entertaining and challenging.

The second opera of teedoubleuGAMES, Immortal Planet wants to be a tribute to the kind of souls-like, a title that makes the core of the combat system, but leaves many cracks.

Unforgiving and tense, Immortal Planet is the essential 2D Souls-like game.

Give this game a chance if you do not expect much. Especially if you have played Dark Souls trilogy, Salt & Sanctuary, Nioh and Bloodborne. Then it makes sense to check Immortal Planet too. [Issue#278]

Immortal Planet is mostly a game for Souls fans that just cannot get enough of FromSoftware’s particular brand of action. While it could also work as an introduction to the series proper, what with its short length, Immortal Planet doesn’t bring enough new to the table to really justify a purchase for anyone not already familiar with the Souls series. That it starts to recycle content in such a short time frame is also a crime, even if the combat can be engaging.

An interesting attempt at an isometric Dark Souls, but it lacks the depth and attention to detail of the real thing.

Immortal Planet is fine in just about every sense of the word. It does most things decently well, but never does anything exceptionally. It has a few interesting ideas, but it’s got enough drawbacks to even them out. I respect the ideas and what I’m sure were the goals of the project by a small development team, but it’s only been a few hours since I stopped playing and I’m already over it. I don’t regret my time with the game, but I don’t feel the need to hop back in and don’t really have any stand-out moments to look back on. The game may be called immortal, but the experience proves to be anything but.

A game adapts the basic mechanics from the Souls series successfully, and offers working fighting system, but fails to bring the catchy charm that glorified original have. Unnecessarily high difficulty, inconsistent design decisions, stereotype and boring environment make the game only a dull average piece.

Immortal Planet is by no means a bad game but it’s certainly not for me. It just seemed to get in the way of itself a lot – holding itself back via some particularly odd design decisions, possibly made in an attempt to emulate that ‘Soulsian’ gameplay but without enough of a core to back it up.