Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime's bright, colorful look and eccentric title may make it seem like frivolous nonsense, but as with the best relationships, there's deeper stuff at play here than outward appearances show. It's a game that's as much about co-dependency as cooperation, and it manages to impart its lessons with a mere six hours of its unusual take on frantic space-shooter action. That may sound like it's only enough time for a one-night stand, but I found it's also plenty of time to fall in love.
Since it seemed appropriate for the material, I decided to play Lovers' offline-only "couch co-op" mode with my wife. This was a risk: I'd heard stories about how the juggling of duties involved left some best friends throwing up their hands in disgust with one another, and here I was gambling the future of almost nine years of happy marriage by exposing us to such frustration. But our story has a happy ending, because we’re a good team, she and I. Within 15 minutes, we'd gotten the hang of it and we were bobbing our heads to its catchy and relentless techno soundtrack and chanting "Space bunny! Space bunny in space!" while saving said bunnies. Sure, at times it was difficult — even ridiculously so — but the finesse with which we handled the ensuing trials convinced me that what we have is, in fact, love. And I thank you for that, developer Asteroid Base.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...
Since it seemed appropriate for the material, I decided to play Lovers' offline-only "couch co-op" mode with my wife. This was a risk: I'd heard stories about how the juggling of duties involved left some best friends throwing up their hands in disgust with one another, and here I was gambling the future of almost nine years of happy marriage by exposing us to such frustration. But our story has a happy ending, because we’re a good team, she and I. Within 15 minutes, we'd gotten the hang of it and we were bobbing our heads to its catchy and relentless techno soundtrack and chanting "Space bunny! Space bunny in space!" while saving said bunnies. Sure, at times it was difficult — even ridiculously so — but the finesse with which we handled the ensuing trials convinced me that what we have is, in fact, love. And I thank you for that, developer Asteroid Base.
Continue reading…
Continue reading...