Well, it was bound to happen eventually - the joke has now officially gotten annoying. The Mayo trilogy ends not with a bang... but with a whimper - a series that went from passable and kind of funny to downright torturous. Feels like a chintzy rehash of the first two with a worse art style than both and what seems like only half the actual gameplay. Making the back half into whatever that walking simulator part was turned out to be a dire move, with minigames that feel awful and increasingly more stale humor ripped right out of 2014. Not even funny bad, just bad. Hated it.

A little sour about the campaign being so bare-bones, but it's clear the multiplayer was the main focus here anyway - and it's good! There are tons of fun modes that anyone can pick up and play right away (even if people these days are only playing one or two). Everything here works as intended and not surprisingly it's a graphical powerhouse with almost fully destructible environments to wreak havoc in - but this sort of game just isn't really my cup of tea to be honest. Most online multiplayer games like this I enjoy for maybe an hour tops before it starts feeling repetitive. Not to mention that I generally tend to be allergic to WWI/WWII stuff. Not a bad game by any means but I can't see myself going back to this after nabbing the plat. Online-only trophies are still a cancer no matter how generous they are.

Perhaps the last of the great streamer bait titans, right before the genre switched from endearing one-trick-pony memes into grating merchandise clowns obsessed with their own neverending, crappy lore. Once again, there's only the one joke/trick going on here - but it's a solid enough one to make this feel almost like a diet Yooka-Laylee/Banjo Kazooie when it's at its best. The snake's a cute character, and the intentionally rage-inducing controls feel complicated enough to be funny but good enough to feel natural. Fun, lightly innovative, and has personality but - like most of these - nothing you'll feel like picking up too often after a few days with it.