Analysis of Lightyear Frontier – Generation Xbox

Technical section

Without beating around the bush, Lightyear Frontier stands out in its graphics section. The world that is proposed to us to explore is a very diverse planet, full of beautiful and impressive colors and settings, and with great attention to small details, something that we can appreciate much better in the moments when we get off the mecha and We explore certain areas or interact with the planet’s small wildlife.

Throughout the game we will be accompanied by a very relaxing soundtrack with stringed instruments, very consistent with the general idea of ​​the game which clearly invites you to disconnect and relax with your spatial cultures.

The game is fully translated into Spanish, so we can all enjoy it without worrying about the language barrier.

Gameplay

Lightyear Frontier places us in a future where Planet Earth was destroyed because of human beings, This is why the Lightyear Frontier program was created, a program through which several explorers were sent in search of a new habitable planet, and we are one of those explorers.

The first thing we will have to do when landing on this new planet will be to find and assemble the different parts of our mecha scattered throughout the territory during our landing. And even though we are experienced explorers, without the help of our mecha, our mission would be completely impossible.

Once we have rewired our fuse, it’s time to start working. As usual in this type of game, It’s time to start collecting the necessary resources as we explore this new and mysterious planet. looking for a good place to create our base and start settling in. We will find several available resources that we can extract using different tools; We can extract stone and wood with our picks, but if we use the toothed saw from our bit, everything will be much faster.

I admit that this is a point that can become boring, especially if you play alone, but fortunately for us Lightyear Frontier allows us to play cooperatively with 3 other players, so that all the most repetitive tasks that end up becoming tedious in the long run, like watering crops or feeding animals, become much more bearable and more efficient if you play with friends.

As we advance and obtain resources, we will unlock new items that will allow us to continue our goal of exploring and making this new world habitable. To do this we will have to enter new areas which we will find contaminated with purple slime and infested with weeds; Fortunately, unlike Earth, despite its poor state, it is still possible to recover these areas if we take care of them and get rid of all the corruption that is eating away at them.

Basically this is the general mechanics of the game, getting resources to upgrade your equipment, which will allow you to access new areas with new resources to continue improving your equipment, and so on continuously . A very simple principle, but extremely addictiveespecially when you’ve already moved forward and shift the focus from “survival” (since we can’t die and we won’t find enemies that pose a threat in Lightyear Frontier, although they will pose a threat to our cultures…) with emphasis on creating a base by decorating it to your taste with different decorative objects and colors, just as you can with your wick by changing its parts and colors according to your taste.

Duration

If we focus solely and exclusively on the story, Lightyear Frontier is a fairly short game that you can complete in around 5-6 hours, however, Note that the game is in its phase Game Overview and there is still content to arrive that will significantly increase its duration, such as the arrival of neighbors and the possibility of interacting with them.

However, if we focus on enjoying our farm, this is a game that you can literally play for as many hours as you want, especially and as I mentioned before, if you play it with friends .

conclusion

Although it is in the beta phase, Lightyear Frontier is a very enjoyable game that serves to disconnect and have a great time while focusing on your peaceful farm life at the same time that you pilot a giant mecha with a tractor nose that, instead of firing missiles, is capable of firing multiple seeds at different targets simultaneously, and that instead of carrying a flamethrower to incinerate your enemies, it has a hose that serves both to water your crops more effectively, as well as to clean the rot from other regions of the planet and thus contribute to making it a habitable environment both for its fauna and flora and for We.

You can find Lightyear Frontier available via Game Pass or you can get it for $24.99 via the Microsoft Store.

*This analysis was carried out on an Xbox Series X by our own means.