LUNA The Shadow Dust

“He turned himself into a weird little pet creature, funniest shit I’ve ever seen”
-Protagonist
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Weird setting and puzzles in Luna: The Shadow Night, truly achieve that fairytale book feel.

Gameplay

Point and click puzzle game where you control two characters, each able to do something the other can’t, and occasionally gameplay sections are interrupted by short cutscenes that drive the story forward.

Story

Something about darkness and protecting who you love, the game isn’t exactly clear with the details as it doesn’t feature any sort of language to make this little tale as far reaching as possible.

X-Factor

Certainly its aesthetics, it looks as a children’s fairytales book.

Downsides

Moonman logic in puzzle games is only good if it makes humor of its absurdity, and no humor is found here José, on top of that many puzzles are tedious due to either repetitiveness of tasks or controls not properly registering making you mess up the execution and do the puzzle from the beginning.

The title features a beautiful ending cutscene, how is it a bad thing?
The ending cutscene alone contains more than double the artwork than the rest of the game, either this was an animation haphazardly turned into a game at the last second or a gross mismanagement of resources.
The worst offender here is how the two characters that you’ll see always on screen have only a couple of frames of choppy game animations compared to maybe minute things that get much better treatment.
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It feels like it originally was a short animated movie but knowing there’s no monetary return in it they tacked on a barebones game, priced the 2 hour experience at 20$ and called it a day.

As an animation it looks cute, but as a game it fails almost completely.

Wonderful art, surprisingly deep story, and thoughtful game design. Also the music is really pretty. There's a few more things I still need to discover, good game.

The art in the game is amazing and I really enjoyed the soundtrack as well. The story was also nice.
The puzzles could be a little harder though, most of them were pretty simple.
The pace of the game felt a bit too slow at times, the caracters walk slowly and had some interaction animations that could be skippable. The cutscenes, specially from the second half of the game were too long though.
Had some small bugs with interactive elements not being interactive, and had to go back and fourth till it got the target

Loved this game! Incredible art, storytelling and music. Possibly my next favorite click and point puzzle!

This game is very pretty but I wish they'd spent more time on game play than on the artwork. It's incredibly boring, super basic puzzles. I kept wondering, is this it?

I bought LUNA The Shadow Dust and had it in my library for a while because I wanted to dedicate a good chunk of time to it because I LOVE the art style and animation in this game. SO CUTE!

In this game you play as Uri. At the start you wake up on the ground and you see a big tower nearby. You go to the tower and begin your quest. You venture though different rooms and solve puzzles point and click style. As you go through different areas you can begin to piece together a story of past, present, and future. You are joined by a cute little creature called Layh and after you rescue them. After that Uri and Layh solve puzzles together with their different talents. At the end you are able to piece together the full story.

I would recommend LUNA The Shadow Dust. It was a really fun game to play.

I played with my 4 year old child and we both enjoyed it. Puzzled quite easy.

Rats 👍

beautiful graphics, layh is a memorable lil guy. touching story at the end. some of the puzzles were a little hard to figure out, but I only had to cheat for the clocktower haha!

Cozy puzzle daze for days

A wonderful little cozy puzzle game for cold nights. I played this within a day and absolutely loved it. Will replay just to get the achievements. I love the art style and the story within. 10/10 will play again

Beautiful artstyle & soundtrack, I really enjoyed this game ₊˚⊹♡

Started playing mouse-based games since I can't use my left thumb (I usually prefer a controller). This is the first on my list and even though I've only played a little bit, it was already totally worth it.
Very strong and coherent visual style, beautifully animated with a fitting score. The puzzles don't seem very hard so far, but they're a lot of fun.
I certainly don't regret picking this up.

(I didn't really play that many hours, I just have the game running while being distracted)

Absolutely an under rated gem. Gorgeous art, clever and diverse environment puzzles, with a textbook example of effective show don't tell storytelling. This should be rated far higher than it is! I hope the developers are very proud of what they've accomplished here.

The puzzles in this game are very easy, and it purposefully makes you move slowly. I tried to get into that, to feel the vibe, but I never could make it. The cut scenes were very long, especially at the end. If you're a fan of puzzle games, like Myst, I'd skip this one. If you like little cartoons that try to tug at your heart strings and you want an easy challenge, give it a try. It wasn't for me.

Absolutely love these characters <3

So good. Recommend for everyone.

Beautiful game but the gameplay is just very frustrating. Hard to find the objects you can interact with and while a lot of the puzzles take a while to solve it's because they're repetetive rather than challenging. I got stuck on one level because it demands very precise timing that the controls just aren't built to handle. Finished the game out of pure stubborness but the combination of annoying gameplay and very long, slow cut scenes was not enjoyable.

Do not play this game. It's too beautiful it will make you cry!!! (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )づ♡♡♡ 9/10

I’ve returned here after several years to leave a positive review. I’ve been following the game since its Kickstarter days, eagerly awaiting its release, and was thrilled when it finally launched. This is an outstanding quest that won’t leave anyone indifferent.

The artwork for this game is really beautiful - so beautiful that my first impression was that it's a shame there's not more to do in each scene. For the artwork alone I would recommend it... but I gotta say the cut scenes really killed the vibe... it seems like there's a lot of interesting mythical backstory here, but it's sort of only hinted at. The main story, revealed in cut scenes is... meh. The music for the most part is nice, but there are points where the synth strings are just cloying.

I'd like to recommend, but I probably won't play this game again. I just kind of felt annoyed at the end.

Puzzle difficulty is not that hard, just very time consuming.
it's slow pace puzzle game. If you don't like something going fast you might need to look for something else.

I don't get the story. Especially the ending. I had no idea that thing would do that. there was very little info about it. Maybe my life is filled with doubts.

The price... I think this game doesn't worth the $20.
Other than those, It's okay puzzle game. Could be better. Just not good enough, sadly.

Beautiful art style, I really enjoyed it.