Why anyone would give so many dogs to this stupid woman is completely beyond me. Early on, you’ll also need to worry about finding wood to start fires as, of course, she barely brought any of that either. You’ll mostly be focused on hunting larger game, as they provide more meat. Doing so uses up a peg on the main character’s hunger meter. Almost all of the “challenge” in The Red Lantern stems from two things: having enough food for you and the dogs, and dealing with dangerous animals that can kill you.Īs you ride through the wilderness, you’ll come across events that you can follow up on. She did bring a rifle for hunting purposes, but she only brought a few bullets. However, she has brought practically no food, because buying a bag of dog food and some beef jerky was just too hard to remember. You see, she has assembled a team of five dogs and has planned to take them out into the wilderness. The game is, unfortunately, predicated on the fact that the main character is a giant idiot. The primary danger is that both your character and the dogs can starve, so they’ll all need to eat regularly in order to get to their destination. You can move the camera while they’re running, but you don’t control the dogs. For instance, you can tell them to go left or right, or when to hunt or search out events. You sit back and watch while the dogs pull you. The Red Lantern begins in earnest when you disembark from your car, get the dogs connected to the sled, and then set out in the wilderness to get to the cabin. Yes, the reasons for this are often totally arbitrary and happen more for shock value than anything else. The Red Lantern is billed as a narrative adventure, but not much happens, and the game can get emotionally manipulative. You’ll be hearing the same lines over and over and over again though, which gets old fast. As she’s the only human, she has the tendency of talking to herself all the time. The main character is voiced by industry stalwart Ashley Burch and her dialogue is both written and delivered with panache. Once you’ve got your dogs picked out, you then reach the wilderness where you have to lead the dogs towards a cabin with the titular lantern hanging from it. Naturally, any time you take him up on an offer to let him sniff something out, it’s a skunk. Another dog is said to follow scents, but has had a lot of run-ins with skunks. For instance, Barkley will get out in front of danger and maybe fight off a wolf. Each has different strengths, weaknesses, and will have their own events show up. From there, it’s up to you to scope out several adoptable dogs and pick the four you’d like to join you. She packs up, makes arrangements, and drives up with her dog Chomper in tow, who she has decided will be at the front of the team. The Red Lantern sees you thrust into the role of a young woman who has decided to move to Alaska and fulfill her dream of leading a dog sledding team. It might be worth a look for anyone who’s sold by its premise, but someone looking for an enjoyable rogue-lite will almost certainly walk away unfulfilled, even if the freshness of the game’s central ideas are commendable. The Red Lantern has some interesting ideas, cute dogs, and endearing visuals, but it’s significantly held back by repetition, too few mechanics, and a complete lack of anything you can call gameplay. A rogue-lite about dog-sledding was not something I thought would ever exist.
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