this isn't a bad game, in fact if I had played this around release I bet I would have had a great time with the game. As of now though when I've played this in 2025 and have experienced earth defense force, helldivers 1 and 2, and honestly the battlefront games as well in some ways all supersede lost planet in so many ways that it does just generally make the game as of this time period seem aged.

I love the art direction, the gimmick with the grappling hook and heat. It's just that these two factors are such negligible fragments of the gameplay that the grapple itself can only really be seen as little more than a jump button and the heat itself substitutes the health bar in a way that I think works well with the design intention of the rest of the game, but it's not something you will be actively thinking about.

As for the gameplay it's little more than earth defense force as a soldier with one weapon and no dodge roll. It tries to intersperse this with being able to swap weapons throughout each mission and introducing a multitude of interesting vehicles, it's just that none of them do anything particularly unique beyond being faster/slower and having bigger guns.

All of this is to say that any other arcadey shooter will serve you better and the element of being on an alien world surrounded by hostile enemy hordes you'll need to fight through in order to accomplish an objective is (as much as it pains me to say it) at it's peak in helldivers 2 even if the heads of development for that game aren't quite used to handling a project of that scale. All of the battlefront games also offer an alternative for a better pvp experience than this game can offer.

I do hope capcom comes back to this franchise, I do think there's a lot that can be done with this series that's been painfully ignored for a long period of time. Ideally now that capcom seems to be nailing it with each release there can hopefully now be an expected reboot or fourth title of some kind that I can put my love into. I'd even take another shot at dark void since I feel similarly with that game.

Less is more. Very enjoyable

Decent.