Lemmings-Like Space Adventure 'Moons of Darsalon' Leaps Onto Switch February 2025

This looks awesome !

I’m sold! I love that pulp sci-fi aesthetic. This looks like Lemmings crossed with a platforming shooter, where you get to clear the way and boss around your Darsonauts with your player-character. A little more action and a little less puzzly than I expected, but it looks like great fun!

Edit: It's a shame I read now that the devs had to resort to using AI art. That dampens my enthusiasm considerably.

AI Art? Into the trash it goes.

reminds me more of Abe's Odyssey crossed with Contra

This is more 2D Pikmin (with guns) than Lemmings.
Looks interesting.
reads more of the article
Oh, "only the images were AI created", yeah really believe you there.
Bye bye no thanks

Looks fun, but I will not support someone using AI art, over a person. Guess that makes me a “hater” according to his post. But my livelihood depends on people caring about humans making art, not AI.

Shame it got overshadowed by the AI thing, because the gameplay and psuedo 3D ships and such look absolutely sick!

I have zero problem with AI art or writing. All the whining about it sounds just like every historical complaint about new technologies "supplanting" human workers. Progress always leaves some people behind temporarily. People adapt and we're all better off because of these developments.

One tweet and all my hype after watching the trailer is gone. Good job, devs. How anybody in their right mind can replace images created by human with ones made by AI?

@MoonKnight7 while I don't think the "hate" term is appropriate, he is however right: a lot of ppl complaining about the AI art wouldn't have bought the game in the first place, even without it; and just want to complain about it.

So many fun times started with:

C: cd Games
C: cd Lemmings
C: vgalemmi.exe

Should also add, I have no issue with small projects using AI. If you're a single developer or a pair of guys with no art skills and a small to no budget, use the tools you have.

When multi-million/billion companies do it to cut down on costs though, eff that.

Author seems biased against innovative technology. Gameplay speaks for itself… either you enjoy it or not. Clearly the game isn’t intended as a work of art.

Great art style.

and the next ai box art game. wtf when you have the money to make a game like this, you should have the money for an key art artist...

@bluemage1989 nice that you promoting theft.
who do you think wins if AI is getting used more and more? the consumer who get worse quality but a lot more crap?
no my friend the only one who win are the giant companies. you will lose. this time they didn't steal from you but when they do it, don't expect any solidarity from others

@FantasiaWHT
I'm not completely against AI stuff but especially AI art is theft and because of that your comparison to the past is just not fitting.
You can use AI as a tool and that's great and will benefit humanity (hopefully) but video games are an art form and with that part of our culture. Robots cannot create culture and shouldn't create culture.
When Youtubers use AI art I have no problem with it, it's normally not a work of art.

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with this article? Announcing the game and making a public lynching of the dev for being honest about part of this work? Sticking it to them even more by claiming the rest of their game is also AI-made without any proof of any sort?

Regardless of how you feel about AI art, at least they disclaimed it properly, which isn't the case of many other game devs, some of whom you loved not a month ago...

Oh and not all AI art is "theft", some tools are being made on legally obtained art and consent. But then again, if you knew what you were talking about...

I don't agree that AI use is "theft" at all. The learning models do the exact same thing that humans have done forever, just at a much more efficient rate - which is what all technological progress has been, from calculators to steam engines. They read or look at other forms of art and then use that - not copy it - to develop their own creations. You and I do the same thing.

I don't remember Lemmings having laser guns and boobies. Maybe I need to go back and look a little closer.

This looks like a lot of fun! I hope it does well.

@FantasiaWHT
I think the issue is mostly that there aren't really rules (at least official rules) on what can and should be done with generative AI (I'm specifying here because AI as a whole has existed since computers do). So the tools are being misused by ill intended people. But it's the same as when printing, radio, TV or internet were invented and it took some time to adjust. It's normal, but in this age everything takes huge proportions.

@DG_Cacique My first thought upon viewing the trailer was Oddworld.

Okay on my wishlist.

After seeing TE do a fearmongering article about this game I went and bought it.

@FantasiaWHT You are in the right. Let no one tell you otherwise.

Watching the trailer actually had me super interested in this, but it's so sad to see AI being used. Oh well. Moving on.

@jojobar I'm sorry but who are you to decide if robots can/should or can't/shouldn't create art and culture? Like wth? You think you're better, seriously?

@Astropez I hope your post was meant to be ironic

@FantasiaWHT no they are not doing the same thing that a human does. please read a bit more about that topic and you will see it's not that simple.
there are even appraisals from academics who say it's breaking the copyright laws.
And as I said, it doesn't benefit anyone except the big AI companies. you as a consumer will just get more crap.

@Astropez If legaly used art to train the AI is used then ofc it's not theft.
Ai art makes sense to use in a not final product, as a tool in the creation of something.

@jojobar it's not meant to be ironic. I'm seriously wondering if your ego is so big that you think you can decide if they can/should be allowed to.

Oh the loading screens are AI art? That explains the excessive spacesuit cleavage