Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is good fun, with striking visuals and a great setting. A few issues keep it from being totally brilliant though. If you're a fan of "metriod-vania" or in the mood for a light puzzle game, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is worth picking up

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet draws you into its unfamiliar terrain with a great sense of atmosphere and fosters experimentation with varied tools and fascinating situations. It's a fairly brief excursion, but it's worth the journey

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet may not offer the depth or distraction of the standouts in this specific subgenre, but it still effectively scratches the same itch as those games, and it does it with style. While it's hard to resist wishing that there were more of this game to experience, it's just as easy to enthusiastically appreciate what's already here

If there was just a bit more content in the game, and if the focus was more on solving puzzles, I have no doubt that this would be a huge hit. However, as it is, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is a great game, even if it is slightly flawed. And in a summer that has been sparse with games, this may very well make this title worth your time and money

For the most part, it’s a genre that certainly isn’t getting the attention it deserves, especially from those companies that established it in the first place (Konami and Nintendo). And if Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet proves anything, it’s that the genre still plays well today

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, from the look of it, might make you think it's trying to skate by on charm. Even if that were the case, its minimalist beauty that piles upon itself endlessly would allow it to skate pretty far. Yet the game is solid in its mechanics to the point where it would be worth playing even if it were butt-ugly