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You’ll start in a dungeon that you’ll need to wander around in to find bits of experience that will slowly give your character the most fundamental of abilities, including even running and jumping. After “leveling up” a few times to get to even the bare minimum you’d normally begin with you’ll then somewhat abruptly be thrown into the game being a very limited and poor shooter. Repetitively shooting palette swaps of the same few enemies while running backwards is not interesting or in any way rewarding and yet that’s what you’ll spend a fair amount of time doing. Further progress will then have you returning to the dungeon and this time working through 10 different objectives to go further, including simply jumping or shooting a number of times and performing other menial tasks. While the topics or “jokes” may change, the utter lack of enjoyment is a constant thread. I believe that the intent is to make a satirical point and goof on that state of the industry but there’s nothing clever or insightful here, only bland and generic levels with very little to do and next to zero entertainment value of any kind. Satire and higher-order humor typically works to mock the subject of ridicule by running circles around it in some way by showing wit or subverting expectations (where are you The Stanley Parable?). In this case the game simply seems to wallow in mediocrity and then half-heartedly attempt to justify that by claiming that’s meant to be clever comedy.
Justin Nation, Score:Avoid [3.5]