LUNA - The Shadow Dust Demo

LUNA - The Shadow Dust is a point and click adventure developed and published by Lantern Studio.

The number of point and click adventures seems to be on the rise, and that can only be a good thing. It’s a genre that’s been ignored for far too long, and now we have a ton of games that are great. LUNA - The Shadow Dust is one of those games and it’s obvious from all the work that’s been done by the developers until now.

The point and click adventure genre hasn’t evolved all that much over the years. We still play it pretty much the same, by solving puzzles and experiencing a story, which most of the time is the whole reason why we’re in the game in the first place. The story is usually doubled by great and memorable characters, so it’s no wonder that we tend to remember the good adventure games of the past.

The players witness how a young boy that's falling from the sky, and who's saved at the very last moment by an unknown force. He survives the fall only to find himself at the end of the world, facing a massive tower. After he enters the tower, he finds a strange creature that takes him even higher.

Since the demo version is pretty short, we have to rely on the developers for more explanations. They say the boy wants to regain his memory while he’s also trying to bring back order to the world, but that part of the story will be revealed in the full game.

The developers and designers from Lantern Studio have been using a very time-consuming technique for the animation, and they are doing it frame by frame. This a long time, but the end result are characters that feel life-like, and that’s something that you can’t really put a price on.

The demo only has a couple of puzzles, and they are entertaining, although not all that difficult. I have a feeling that you’re going to be playing this one for the story and not for the incredibly difficult puzzle, although I suspect that are going to be a few of those in the final version as well.