Journey to the Savage Planet Review (DALCOhstangultion)
"Journey To The Savage Planet" is a really good, fun game and I'm Recommending it. I played it co-op and we finished the game with MOST of the Achievements in about 31 hours. So, it's just about worth the base price of ~$30 (I got it on sale for about $9, so it was definitely worth it to me). But, even though I really enjoyed the game, there are problems:
The developer apparently was owned by Google and when Google killed Stadia, they threw the developers out into the street and kept the rights to the source code for themselves. So, it doesn't look like any bugfixes will be forthcoming.
I don't know if it's a function of my AMD CPU/GPU or something else. But, while I was hosting the co-op game, either the game would freeze or crash or my system would freeze or crash (4 different failure modes) about every 1-1/2 hours. Once my co-op partner started hosting (by copying the save files over to her computer) on her Intel/Nvidia system, we had no such problems.
Several of the Achievements are bugged or not-collectively achievable in co-op.
One of the Achievements requires SLAPPING all the creatures (including the 3 bosses) in the game. The first issue with that is the game will convert what you think is a slap into a kick for some creatures and that doesn't count. For the small creatures, you have to force slap (hold the "E") to ensure you're slapping. Secondly, it wasn't clear if the bosses have to be ALIVE when you slap them. It turns out, they don't. We slapped them afterwards (their bodies remain) and finally got the Achievement when we figured out what small creature we kicked instead of slapped.
Other than that, nothing really significant. Once we cleared up the crashing by switching to an Intel/Nvidia system as host, we were fine. A very enjoyable game. I hear the developers have reconstituted themselves. Hopefully, they'll produce more good games.
EDIT: At about 54 hours, I've managed to get 100% Achievements on the base game (most of that extra time is for the Old Game Minus Achievements). And, I've got to wonder why more people don't play this game. It's really good. Probably early Borderlands level of goodness. So, once again, I'll just say I highly recommend the game.