I do not learn about you, however I discover that so many video games that attempt to be humorous fall brief. It is a onerous factor to do! Completely different individuals are amused by vastly completely different stuff, so a developer seeking to inject humour into their recreation is treading on inherently trecherous floor. Racoon Logic has one way or the other managed not solely to traverse such risks, they’ve slid over them, arms flailing. Revenge of the Savage Planet is an exceptionally humorous online game.
This manifests in a variety of little methods, all compounding into this excellent little slapstick machine. For one, Revenge of the Savage Planet, as a sequel to the stunning Journey to the Savage Planet, has shifted the attitude from first individual to 3rd. This permits for a pageant of great animation work to take centre stage. Issues so simple as the operating animation are exaggerated to absurd levels. You slip and slide over goo with the identical vitality as a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and also you full-on kick harmless fauna with the depth of a wino stumbling throughout a soccer somebody’s deserted on the street.
Then there’s the writing. The sport is under no circumstances a narrative-heavy expertise, it is a far stretch away from an RPG or visible novel, however it’s dotted with little jokes and gags that do not overstay their welcome. This, paired with a vibrant assortment of planets blooming with alien life that sits someplace between hilarious and horrifying creates this through-line of passive hilarity. A punchline, if you’ll. It is a well-known cliche for a author to say {that a} recreation introduced a smile to their face. So, within the spirit of Revenge of the Savage Planet’s personal dodging of low cost cliches, I am going to simply say it made me giggle. And I used to be fairly certain I heard related noises come from different preview stations close by.
Talking of the writing, there is a cathartic core to the center of the sport’s premise that provides this good additional layer to ROTSP’s attraction. You, as an worker of an area colonization firm, are laid off and made redundant and left stranded on a far-flung planet. There is a wealthy chocolate river of thick and fixed jabs at company greed, which makes a variety of sense when you think about the developer’s formation following the biblical mismanagement of Google Stadia. Leaping off that ship, the staff clearly has some expertise coping with such ruthless enterprise strikes, and have funneled that (in addition to their emotions on the video games business as a complete) into the sport in superb trend.
All of these items solely sits nicely as a result of the sport itself is strong. That is clearly the bread and butter of the entire expertise. As a metroidvania, you enterprise throughout the planets fixing puzzles, combating off completely different creatures, and snatching loot. Everlasting upgrades enable for additional exploration, identical to our lord and savior Satoru Okada meant. Nevertheless, given the tone of the sport, these are whimsical and wacky in nature – assume electrical whips and completely different forms of goo. There are many further little devices you may shortly entry that act as a toolbox of kinds for a terrific journey.
I do fear slightly about how the open world format might make navigating to previous locations of curiosity a little bit of a trouble, however with a well utilized marker system on the in-game map, or a beneficiant automated POI tracker might resolve this handedly. I additionally did not discover the sport significantly difficult. I do not assume it is a huge deal, not all video games have to interrupt your balls. However, as a survival recreation of kinds, there is a specific breed of gamer who is perhaps searching for one thing that is not right here. It is extra of a chill expertise, one to snicker by means of with a buddy or two.
All in all, Revenge of the Savage Planet is a joyous recreation. There are parts I did not get to discover in depth, corresponding to base customization and capturing creatures to be used at dwelling (to do what, who is aware of), however nonetheless it is now a recreation firmly on my listing of anticipated 2025 releases. It needs to be on yours, too! Seize a buddy and a pizza and this recreation will do the remaining.