Alpha Beta Gamer first featured Lemma back in September last year, but this free form first-person parkour game has come along leaps and bounds since then (excuse the pun).
You play Physics grad student Joan Emerson who has uncovered the mysterious voxel based world of Lemma, full of strange floating landscapes and surfaces that react to your presence. The movement of your character should feel familiar to anyone who’s played Mirrors Edge, but without the crappy combat mechanics. It also features a wonderfully innovative system where you create surfaces as you move through the space, using the ordinary movement mechanics of the game. This allows you to extend a wall just by running off the edge of it, build bridges, create platforms or smash through obstructions.
The idea of a videogame game based on the world of free running is not a new one, the idea of course being popularised by Electronic Arts and their Mirror’s Edge franchise. Parkour isn’t a new topic to virtual reality (VR) either; we’ve seen several videogames based on the topic with varying degrees of similarity to the aforementioned EA offering.
GGSP writes: The devs could have done a better job on the level design. There were just a few points where I had to resort to just randomly wandering about and trying things until I stumbled upon the solution. But the core mechanics of Lemma work really well.
With the ever-growing list of games available in the market today it is only becoming harder and harder to find and choose the next title to invest and indulge in. With the countless abundance of titles we are provided there are many that don’t live up to their proud boasts of innovation and creativity.
But there are some that truly exceed expectations and are testaments to the ever evolving state of the gaming world.
So we here at Gearburn want to pay our respect to the following three titles and tell you why they deserve some of your time. Let me assure you, it will most certainly not be time wasted.
Lemma and Monstrum are both really entertaining, unique games. Anyone who enjoyed Mirror's Edge should definitely pick up Lemma.
