Lunnye Devitsy is an atmospheric exploratory platformer that lacks substance. In attempting to create a feeling of the unknown developer Boss Baddie went too far and ended up with a game that has no direction, and by the end feels just as hollow and pointless as when it begins.

You play as a odd little alien, literally dropped into the world, who's sole goal is to make it back to where it came from. To do this you much explore the lifeless and convoluted structures around you, collecting various objects to use to send yourself home. However this is where the game runs into problems, as environments are designed in such a way as to require copious amounts of tedious backtracking, to say nothing of the plentiful dead-ends and empty caverns that serve no purpose but to confuse and disorient you, as you attempt to traverse them with no guide or means to mark your progress. It's tiresome to say the least, and the game as a whole suffers from what seems a poor means of elongating the still very short experience (I was able to finish it in just under an hour).

I won't deny that the presentation is very artistic and creative, but again the developer got overzealous and failed to realize that less can often equal more. This is most evident in the excessive use of bloom and fog, as well as other needless effects that obscure and distort the image until it is simply painful to look at. Taken by itself I actually found the soundtrack rather lovely, but in this context it feels displaced and sets an oddly sinister tone which clashes with what is otherwise a more curious and relaxing adventure.

Even considering the very low price as half of the Lunar Bundle, I couldn't say that Lunnye Devitsy is something I found to be worthwhile. Nothing fits right together and even after finishing it I would be hard pressed to pick any point that stuck out as memorable or enjoyable to play. Whatever potential I felt was here ended up falling on the wayside, replaced with a shallow journey that feels akin to a tech demo, and in a similar fashion amounts to little more than a mildly interesting experiment.

This is an interesting game. The premise is very simple - you are a little alien that drops off the moon and you need to find your way back. The gameplay is 2D platform style, and involves exploring a huge floating mountain trying to find 6 different ways to return to the moon at the top of the map. The game offers very little instruction, tasking you with figuring out everything on your own. None of the tasks are overly difficult, but some require thorough exploration, experimentation and deduction. Overall, the vibe of the game is very laid back and mysterious, which is probably its best aspect. I love that there's a game out there in 2013 that offers no explanations and just wants you to explore and figure stuff out on your own. It reminds me of the good old days, playing the original Zelda and Metroid for the first time. Playing a game with a sense of mystery and no hand-holding is a rarity now, and I guess that's what I like about this one so much. It's probably not for everyone, though. At its core, this is a fairly casual game (though it does get surprisingly difficult at the very end) and it doesn't last too long. Also, I am well aware that some people probably won't appreciate the lack if direction/instruction as much as I do. That said, for the price, it's hard to not recommend if you're at all interested in trying out something new and are up for a bit of mystery and exploration.

A little exploration and platforming game with a superb atmosphere and an astounding soundtrack that makes you acquire inner peace.

Lunnye Devitsy is a casual exploration game, kind of like Proteus, except 2d; it is played for its atmosphere. Though the world is not dynamically generated, Lunnye Devitsy does have dynamic lighting and weather effects, with silent figures scattered throughout. The goal of the character in this game is to find different ways to return to the moon after jumping off of it to explore; a strange plot, indeed.
In attempting to fully complete the game, though, I encountered one platforming challenge near the end that seriously frustrated me for hours. The challenge involves firing the character out of a cannon that is basically random in hitting or missing your landing area, and a series of hard-to-time jumps afterwards, in which one can easily fall all the way down back to the cannon if one messes up. Plus, there are bouts of lightling that are not dissimilar to camera flashes going off in front of your face every 10 seconds, so one either slowly becomes blind over the course of playing, or one looks away and gets hit by one of the regular mini lag spikes, resulting in a plunge back to the bottom of the stage. If you are a Super Meat Boy enthusiast, you might be resilient enough to push through the endgame.

Simple yet confusing and finally torturous at the end. Perhaps too simple as it soon becomes a tedious task of collecting nicknacks and repetitive platforming back and forth through the same areas all while trying to explore completely unexplained goals and unclear interactions. They don't tell you that you are trying to get to the moon in multiple ways or that you can use up to interact with some things - had to look that up online. It seems rather obtuse in retrospect, but at least the soundtrack is nice. Oh? What's this? Free soundtrack in the game files? That's nice of them.

The last puzzles require skill, but one of those last puzzles depends on ambiguos mechanics which will require senseless repetition when it's completely unclear why it fails. What seems to be the exact same action produces the needed results only the rare time out of dozens of attempts and, if you screw up the platforming above in the wrong way, you are forced to do it all over again. At least in finishing that challenge alone, I feel some catharsis from the experience.