Maybe I don't understand the menu but there seems to be very few actual courses. And it lists my progress as 0% for modes that I've played every stage in.

This would've been cool but there isn't much here.

Additionally, I find I miss jumps specifically in this Lovely Planet all the time. I'm guessing the old games gave you a bit of leeway as you walk off an edge to jump just afterwards. But this one it's the moment the game feels like you're going downward you can't jump. Which also means just sometimes on flat ground jumping doesn't work.

Overall its frustrating and lacks fleshed out course selection. Just play the original really.

i used to play the original lovely planet on my wii u dawg i had no idea how many games there were now. THIS GAME IS WORTH YOUR 7 BUCKS!!! PLAY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

masterpiece of fps game design. so much variety... so much banging my head against insanely difficult levels I never thought I'd complete. so satisfying to finally get through. the game just keeps going... wow

Absolutely fantastic. Every mode is fun as heck, even the ones that are supposed to be annoying and "unfair". Level design tops the other games in the franchise, making even the most tricky parts of the levels consistent and satisfying to beat with clever movement and timing.

Bullied developer for feature and he actually added it. 10/10

Great game that runs flawlessly on Steam Deck with Proton! Can be a little difficult at times but it's another amazing addition to the series.

Excellent fast-paced shooter that proves more noise and effects do not make a more satisfying game. Lovely Planet really puts you in a trance, to the point where you can play a level for dozens of attempts without losing focus or getting bored. As for the modes people complain about, they certainly have flaws, but aren't as bad as people say. For example, Jelly has rather consistent physics that can be gotten used to and even mastered so as to hit airshots with your wobbly gun. Overall I feel there's much more good than bad here, and for such a low price it's honestly a no-brainer. Also the dev is awesome :-]

Remix is another installment of the lovely planet series, and to me it is the prime example of overcooking something that should've been simple.

Gameplay we're back to basics and each level set follows a new set of rules, be it a type of gun firing, physics of the gun, whether the player can jump, the variety in the modes is definitely there, but the lack of a solid tutorial explaining these oddities lets the game down immensely, like i didn't realise there was a dash jump in fortress levels for a decent amount of time and blink was very confusing to udnerstand at first why i had random deaths, the time trial and 100% accuracy requirements work well for this game although the arcade modes feel very sloppy and thrown in without much effort since they're not really required apart from collectables, and that's where this game completely dies, they are absolutely abysmal and some of the worst collectables i have ever seen in a game, they are untracked, hidden, sometimes forced to be collected in arcade mode and just generally awful in every way, it didn't add anything so don't include it; and its a shame because the base game is great but everything else really lets it down and ultimately was enough to sour my entire experience.

Graphics wise everything is a major improvement, the effects feel smoother and everything has a better cleaner style to it, pretty neat improvements on the simplistic style it already had maintained for a good while.

Music wise is alright, i feel it got too branched out and because of it none of the tracks stood out at all, i miss the days of lovely forest in 1 and 2 being very outstanding tracks, and instead i found myself shutting it off and listening to something else.

Also the dev keeps updating the game adding new things that really cross a line and anger me slightly, adding new achievements that remove someone's 100% completion is kind of annoying unless a fully pledged package is coming like isaac or something, also the UI updates are very clunky and didn't need changing, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

Overall a solid base game for the return to the base style of lovely planet games but extra oddities were enough for me to feel like the series as a whole wasn't worth it, i honestly thought they were indie classics but i hate to say it, i feel the series as a whole is not upto par quality wise and this game was that tipping point for me.

It's more lovely planet, one of the most original speed-run fps out there!! This time with a bunch of different game-play modes, which are most of the time pretty fun ( except for the jelly gun... ).

This is a frustrating review to write, because at a base level... this is more Lovely Planet. And I love Lovely Planet! But... man. Some of the obnoxious level design quirks that had started to bubble up in LP2 came to a full boil here and kinda ruined large swaths of this game for me.

Okay, so, first off, a quick ranking of all the game modes, from worst to best.

Jelly: I mean, duh. This mode is intentionally designed to be obnoxious. I don't know why there are three level sets. I don't think it would be too bad if not for how unlikely it is you'll ever be able to accurately judge where your shots end up during jumps, and boy howdy does the game want you to make a bunch of annoying air shots from like the middle of the second playlist onwards. Between the fixed jump arc, the lob shots, and a general lack of clever level design... yeah, not much fun to be had here.

Fortress: Jelly is the only all-around awful mode but this one's not... great. The three shot spurts make aiming harder, especially in movement-heavy levels, and the dash doesn't feel great - especially upwards movement, where I often got caught on cliff edges. There's also a lot, a LOT, of gotcha traps here that just feel unfair. The first set felt way harder than the second set, though, and I mildly enjoyed this as a whole.

Tunnels: Oogh. I want to like this one but this mode is where all the game's worst level design traits come into play - more on that later - and for whatever reason, this mode also tends to have exceptionally tight time trials mixed with its uber-fast gameplay that make it unquestionably the hardest mode in the game. Like, Tunnels 2-1 for example requires around 50 shots in something like 26-27 seconds? If most enemies didn't take three shots and the gameplay wasn't so aggressively twitch I might've liked this one but this is LP2 Abyss-levels frustrating to me, nearly quit during the second set of levels.

Cascade: The newest mode, and probably the most forgiving and slowest-paced of them all. Like, a bit trial and error based but not... suuuper hard (yet). Not particularly fun though but it's inoffesnive.

Beach: ...gotta be honest, I always forget this mode exists. It's just not got much going for it. No jumping leads to very basic level design, lob shots are back and as annoying as ever, but at the same time it's not particularly challenging by the game's standards, it's just... there.

Tactical: Functionally halfway between Mountains and Jelly, with a faster-pace and faster shots mixed with no air shooting and fixed jump arcs. Generally fine, even gets pretty clever in the third set, but I'd never pick it over Classic or Mountains.

Blink: This is a funny gimmick and super fast-paced in a way that doesn't grate because the levels tend to be over so fast. Probably the most unique mode and if I were to pick a mode that needs a second level set it'd be this, but on the other hand... what more -can- you do with it?

Classic: Boring to say but obviously the bog-standard lovely planet gameplay is gonna be some of the best. It's not peak lovely planet and there's one reeeeally long level in the second set that should've just been split in half, and it takes until the third set for clever, interesting level design to emerge, but at its core it's... well, solid lovely planet gameplay.

Mountains: Probably the least divergent from the "classic" style in that the only changes are faster bullets and a double jump but boy howdy if a third game is made please base it entirely off this one. Faster but not too fast gameplay, harder but not too hard challenge, tight but not too tight time trials, long but not too long levels. I used single levels of this playlist as rewards for clearing other, less fun playlists because of how much I enjoyed it and specifically saved the last level here for the very last level in the game I completed. More, please.

...yeah, so when I only start really enjoying maybe the last 3-4 of the various gameplay styles, that's already a problem, but aside from the wholly malformed Jelly mode, I think they all have potential. It's just that the level design is... problematic.

For one, it's just, on the whole, a lot less clever. There was a tangible evolution of the base gameplay in each world of the original - apples to test your accuracy, homing bullets to test your crowd control, swamp fog to test your speed and reaction time, and the sheer puzzle madness of mountains that made it feel like an entirely different game. The only two playlists that encroach upon the cleverness of LP1 Mountains are Classic 3 and Tactical 3. Something like 20 levels out of a total 200.

Apples, also. Are just used in worse ways here. Rarely in the first game would you have to do a long, semi-blind apple shot, and often whenever you did, either the level would be really short or it would be one of the first shots in the level. Dozens of levels in this game require either multiple hard apple shots (Jelly is notorious about this) or place a particularly difficult apple shot right near the end of an already too-long level, which.

Level lengths. The longest level in the first game still clocked in at under 30 seconds, and it was a village level. Where, as the game got harder, more demanding, levels generally got shorter, with only a handful of Mountains levels even breaching 20 seconds. 25-30+ second levels are the norm in a lot of playlists here, and with how much denser the levels are with stuff to do they tend to feel even longer than that. Tunnels 2 is the most egregious but it's present in almost every single game mode to some extent.

It feels a lot more like what made Abyss so awful in LP2 - an overcorrection to a supposed difficulty problem by just, making the levels have more stuff, instead of designing harder, tighter challenges. A fifteen second level with five hard shots is not half as hard as a thirty second level with ten hard shots, it's about 20%, maybe even 10% as difficult, because you have to keep repeating that same hard first 15 seconds to even get a shot at the second half. There were a few long levels I spent upwards of an hour trying to ace, only for the next, much shorter level to take me a few minutes. There's just no difficulty curve, even within playlists or game modes. Jelly 2-5, the hardest level in the game. Tunnels 2-3, the second hardest. Tunnels 2-1, the third hardest. That one really long Classic 2 level, probably the fourth hardest just on sheer size.

There's also, just. A lot more gotcha moments and trial-and-error in general. The lookahead is back but it's not gonna help you with the abundance of moving blobs, it's not gonna let you know when and where apples are going to fire, some apples even hidden in water/lava in tunnels 2 for added effect. You learn levels by grinding through the early parts to get a chance to peek at the second half, which, again, doesn't feel good at all.

Oh, and, the secret stars. Uhh. Screw right off with the Arcade mode stars that are 8, 10, /15/ levels deep into the middle playlists. Classic 2-15, has an arcade mode star. That's not cool. That's way too much moderately difficult level to get through all for just one single star. Also some of the hidden stars I have no clue how anyone found. I used a guide for them. Sue me.

I will commend the game for having some good ideas and I proooobably enjoyed more levels than I didn't, but the bad ones stick out in my memory way more than the rest. And you're certainly getting your money's worth here - something like 200 levels, double the size of the first game for just over the same price - but, again, the quality isn't there... the game is still being updated fairly regularly even a year later, from what I can tell, the soundtrack's probably the best in the series, fundamentally I see the core of a good game here but the level design just... really lets it down, man, and that's a shame as a long-time fan of the series.