The first-person camera is used sparingly, but is effective for intense, intimate moments, zero-gravity flight, and controlling a floating droid tied to some of the game’s best puzzles. There isn’t any combat, but if you don’t move quick enough in certain areas, you’re going to fail and have to retry. These moments are backed by well-designed controls and sometimes stunning set pieces, like a tall tower crumbling with you on it. Third-person view is used primarily for on-foot sections, which can be as tame as exploring living quarters for clues or as thrilling as darting dangerously past spinning blades in low gravity. When you reach the lunar establishment, which is in ruin and not occupied by any life, exploration unfolds from both third- and first-person angles, often determined by the type of actions you must complete. You then get to experience the rocket launch from a first-person perspective, which beautifully illustrates the transition from Earth’s atmosphere to space. You are tasked to quickly throw the switches in the right order, a moment KeokeN cleverly achieves by highlighting your next interaction in a pink hue – making you look like a well versed astronaut. This is an awesome moment since you manually need to bring the rocket’s systems online from within the cockpit. Your mission is to power up the rocket and launch. Your first steps aren’t made on the moon, and instead unfold on Earth’s surface, which looks eerily alien given the yellow sky and dust-filled air. We have just enough energy to send a one-man rocket to the moon to figure out what went wrong, and hopefully bring the Helium-3 feed online again.
Just when it seems we have a new beginning, the moon falls silent and the transmission ends. The nations of the world unite and develop a revolutionary way of transmitting Helium-3 to Earth. As luck would have it, we don’t have to travel far, as the moon is rich in a powerful isotope called Helium-3 that could solve the energy crisis. The game tells the grim tale of Earth running out of natural resources, forcing humanity to the stars to find other solutions.