#AFFORDABLE SPACE ADVENTURES WII U GAME SERIES#

You use the craft’s scanner to find out what each robot is sensitive to heat, sound, electricity, each with its own gauge on the GamePad screen. You must manipulate these subsystems to bypass different robots. There are different tabs for each of the ships separate fuel, electric and booster engines stabilizer, thrust, mass generator, antigravity, and decelerator. As you progress the GamePad screen fills with more tabs.

This screen is our cockpit, where there are tabs that control the many functions of the SmallCraft. Knapnok Games developed the game for the Wii U because of the unique control possibilities that came with the Wii U GamePad’s touch screen.

#AFFORDABLE SPACE ADVENTURES WII U GAME SERIES#

Affordable Space Adventure takes inspiration from Valve’s timeless Portal, with the use of Laser beams, Switches, Boxes and Projectiles to overcome puzzles and progress through a series of short levels in order to escape a hostile environment.Īs minimalistic as the game appears, the control scheme is complex. The sound design is impeccable and the muted colour pallets and minimalistic design add to that feeling of isolation that I’ve grown familiar with in the Metroid series. In the game’s opening Infomercial style video we’re promised to arrive safely at our destination, but the Uexplore vessel, which ferries the Small Crafts across the galaxy, crashes during a storm and we end up alone on an alien planet, inhabited only by machines that don’t like to be disturbed. A place where tourists can explore at their leisure in the agency’s Small Craft, a very small space ship. The premise of the game is simple it’s set in the not too distant future, where a travel agency, Uexplore, allows people of earth to travel 23 light years into space to visit an Alien planet that’s perfectly hospitable to humans. Technical is very challenging and Tourist is very easy, but not to a fault (sometimes it’s nice to just calmly drift through space without exploding over and over again.) But for the majority of my time playing Affordable Space Adventures I went with the higher difficulty, to get the most for my €2. The first choice you have to make is what difficulty you want to play at Technical or Tourist. Some might say this is expensive for an indie title that can be completed in under eight hours, but you get what you pay for in atmosphere and originality.

But the regular price on the Wii U eShop is €18.99. So, for me, this game was very affordable.

I got the game as part of the “Friends of Nintendo” Humble Bundle. All of which look trustworthy, the promise of a great, safe adventure through space – and on a budget. The first thing you’ll see when s tarting up Affordable Space Adventures is a collection of postcards, informational pamphlets, and general touristy bits and bobs.

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