This game reminds me of the good old days (2017 and earlier), when even bad games still had some quality to them.
That said, it’s barely a game at all. If you switch to AUTO FIRE MODE, the entire “gameplay” becomes completely trivial. You just move your mouse a little while laughing at how bad the "gameplay" actually is.
So yeah, this “game” is perfect for a short chuckle, 50 easy achievements, +1 perfected game on your showcase… and that’s about it.
What’s interesting, though, is that while the gameplay is extremely dull and repetitive - the story isn’t. Surprisingly, it has some slightly interesting ideas and even a plot twist. You can tell that someone actually sat down and thought about this sh*t. Someone really went: “Yeah, this seems like a great story for my game. I’m going to use it.”
Nowadays, a developer like this would probably just ask an AI to generate a story, and the AI would spit out some soulless, generic nonsense. But here, the story isn’t generic. You can clearly see a bit of artistic originality, an actual human touch, in the developer’s work. And that’s something you don’t see very often anymore.
Today, bad games like PLANETS OF WAR are much harder to find. Instead of badly made games that nevertheless had soul and originality, we mostly get AI slop or asset flips with no soul whatsoever.
But PLANETS OF WAR is different.
PLANETS OF WAR touches your heart and soul,
it was made with passion,
it was made for you,
with… [spoiler]love.[/spoiler]
5/10
