PETIT PLANETS: JOHNNY TWO SHOES SHOWS OFF THEIR IPHONE ADVENTURE, PREVAIL

I spy a little bit of Glitch‘s free-wandering & subdued landscape, a little bit of GodFinger‘s deformable terrain, a healthy dose of predecessor Plunderland‘s highly physics-based platforming, and maybe just a touch of Spore‘s explorable ecologies in this new gameplay video of Prevail, the latest from UK indies Johnny Two Shoes.

The video gives a good sense of the free-form play that takes place on each mini-planet, and saves its best for last, proving to all who haven’t seen the games’ earlier trailers that yep, vehicles are all man-able, and, yep, you’re totally free to take off at any given moment to head elsewhere in the local solar system.

The game’s been long in development, its first trailer having appeared over a year ago, and subsequently promised as an “early 2012” release in February (with a better look at more technologically evolved areas), but proof of progress is more than enough to whet my appetite — all I really want to know is, why did he have to kill all the deer? [via Phil Stuart]