"Reddit humor," quoth the Backloggd user.
Hey guys let's not start review bombing just because your introduction to Rick and Morty was that jackass spazzing out at the McDonald's. I'd really hate to see this site become Metacritic. But if you played it and were genuinely put off by the jokes, fair enough. Nothing dictates your sense of humour but yourself. Personally I found the game to be pretty funny, even if they blew their load and used all the best bits in the opening hours. The latter half isn't devoid of laughs, but they were definitely happening less often. I mean, the full RedLetterMedia commentary for the movie Demon Wind was reason enough for me to give this a shot. Justin Roiland is far from the only voice you'll be hearing throughout this adventure; lots of very talented voice actors were clearly having a fun time with this.
As for the gameplay, I enjoyed this more than I anticipated. After the first couple hours I thought the gunplay would become dull and repetitive; it was decent but not wowing me. However, once you unlock the other weapons, the speed boost, grappling hook, and jetpack, all of a sudden every enemy encounter becomes these Doom-esque carnage playgrounds that constantly kept me on my toes. The game definitely evokes a little bit of Metroid Prime, Bioshock Infinite, and fourth-wall breakers like The Stanley Parable too. Not unlike the latter, I often found myself standing around just waiting to see what kind of goofy, self-aware dialogue the game will throw at me. Boss fights could be underwhelming but the characters themselves were amusing encounters to say the least. Performance on Series X is fantastic, although it definitely has its share of audio mixing issues and even soft locked me on a couple occasions. Luckily the checkpoints kept me from losing no more than a few minutes of progress.
It's definitely not the most original game out there...but was it fun? Hell yeah. I'm not a big FPS guy so I will gladly take this over generic military shooter #562 any day of the week. Once again: Game Pass delivers.
Hey guys let's not start review bombing just because your introduction to Rick and Morty was that jackass spazzing out at the McDonald's. I'd really hate to see this site become Metacritic. But if you played it and were genuinely put off by the jokes, fair enough. Nothing dictates your sense of humour but yourself. Personally I found the game to be pretty funny, even if they blew their load and used all the best bits in the opening hours. The latter half isn't devoid of laughs, but they were definitely happening less often. I mean, the full RedLetterMedia commentary for the movie Demon Wind was reason enough for me to give this a shot. Justin Roiland is far from the only voice you'll be hearing throughout this adventure; lots of very talented voice actors were clearly having a fun time with this.
As for the gameplay, I enjoyed this more than I anticipated. After the first couple hours I thought the gunplay would become dull and repetitive; it was decent but not wowing me. However, once you unlock the other weapons, the speed boost, grappling hook, and jetpack, all of a sudden every enemy encounter becomes these Doom-esque carnage playgrounds that constantly kept me on my toes. The game definitely evokes a little bit of Metroid Prime, Bioshock Infinite, and fourth-wall breakers like The Stanley Parable too. Not unlike the latter, I often found myself standing around just waiting to see what kind of goofy, self-aware dialogue the game will throw at me. Boss fights could be underwhelming but the characters themselves were amusing encounters to say the least. Performance on Series X is fantastic, although it definitely has its share of audio mixing issues and even soft locked me on a couple occasions. Luckily the checkpoints kept me from losing no more than a few minutes of progress.
It's definitely not the most original game out there...but was it fun? Hell yeah. I'm not a big FPS guy so I will gladly take this over generic military shooter #562 any day of the week. Once again: Game Pass delivers.