don't take my rating (or any of my high ratings in any medium lol) as a universal recommendation, but its the only appropriate one and my heart knows it. one of the fun things ab liking both retro games and indie games is that we're at the point where just ab every Cool Thing Ur Attached To From The Past is getting some kind of artistic successor, and i dont think i realized just how long i was waiting for someone to do conker's bad fur day already. conker is such formative deeply impactful media for me, and part of why its retained that mystique is that it Shouldn't Have Been formative deeply impactful media...i honestly dont think this would have had the same impact on me had i been able to play it as a young child (not the least of which being that the ending is a Joke rather then a sudden affirmation of the consequences of all the Zany Events...perhaps a missed opportunity but u cant copy the forumla too exactly i supposed), but it is unquestionably a vastly superior game experience that dug up a bunch of comfy primal feelings thru association.
even if you're not one for the absurdly raunchy humor (there are basically zero jokes that arent just gross-out gags, but those are my favorite jokes in conker too so ig im just a Child) this is still very clearly one of the most joyful entries into this new canon of indie 3d platformers. the game Repeatedly Insists that u break it, and is happy to give u the tools to do so, and smartly keeps the dedicated linear platforming challenges that r potentially trivialized by the breaking to contained stretches. most of the game is simply soaring around vast and dense spaces, PURELY exploration focused, and feels in tune with my favorite aspects of this genre and of games in general. even more then the conker vibes, this is what put me at ease...while it might not have been As impactful, child me would have still be enamored with this, and its freeflowing vastly generous toolbox. even stuff like the low consequences for death just feed into this constantly bright, exuberantly happiness-inducing experience, there r never rly any Bad Consequences, its just a v safe raunchy gross space. ive played quite a few games in the past couple years i think are better then this, but none that have made me this uncomplicatedly happy. fart fart piss cum poop
even if you're not one for the absurdly raunchy humor (there are basically zero jokes that arent just gross-out gags, but those are my favorite jokes in conker too so ig im just a Child) this is still very clearly one of the most joyful entries into this new canon of indie 3d platformers. the game Repeatedly Insists that u break it, and is happy to give u the tools to do so, and smartly keeps the dedicated linear platforming challenges that r potentially trivialized by the breaking to contained stretches. most of the game is simply soaring around vast and dense spaces, PURELY exploration focused, and feels in tune with my favorite aspects of this genre and of games in general. even more then the conker vibes, this is what put me at ease...while it might not have been As impactful, child me would have still be enamored with this, and its freeflowing vastly generous toolbox. even stuff like the low consequences for death just feed into this constantly bright, exuberantly happiness-inducing experience, there r never rly any Bad Consequences, its just a v safe raunchy gross space. ive played quite a few games in the past couple years i think are better then this, but none that have made me this uncomplicatedly happy. fart fart piss cum poop