And it’s yours to enjoy if you’re savvy enough to spot it.Ī discussion with KEVIN ZUHN, KEVIN GEISLER, and CHRIS STALLMAN of game developer and publisher Young Horses, Inc. Putting a new spin on the film-before-the-film approach to opening titles that many movies take, Dadliest Catch presents the player with a sly little game-before-the-game. You are Octodad, and you can thrash your freakish limbs into the very names of your creators. With a few button presses his limp whirling becomes your own.
But Octodad’s weird cephalopod ballet through the wide blue yonder, tumbling past credits, isn’t a passive cutscene. All glistening eyeballs, burbling murmurs, and tentacles, neatly kept in check with a Windsor knot, he flails majestically through the atmosphere. launched a Kickstarter campaign with the hopes of creating a sequel to their student project Octodad – a video game that is exactly what it sounds like.Įnter Octodad: Dadliest Catch. The stealth sequences destroy the color and squash the momentum of an experience that really didn’t need much beyond the original conceit.In 2011, budding game developer Young Horses, Inc. It seems weird to critique a game for the moment it actually adapts a sense of traditional gameplay, but it really doesn’t work in the context of Octodad. Suddenly the floaty controls that worked for so much humor now cause a ton of frustration. There is, however, a regrettable stretch at the end of the narrative where Octodad somehow becomes a bona fide stealth game. Nothing really exceeds the fundamental delight of Octodad’s carnage, but the jokes are good enough to tide you over. If you’re the sort of person who will laugh at PewDiePie being on a box of cereal, then you’ll be home here. There are other, smaller gags, mostly coming in the package of one-liners or secluded references.
The developers make Octodad grill burgers because they likely think it’s really funny to watch an octopus attempt to grill burgers. You could read that as a broader commentary on paranoia, and how sometimes it feels like our mildest miscalculations are being watched by the whole room, but that sort of joyless interpretation robs Octodad of its chaotic temper. This actually turns him into a fairly sympathetic character, since all Octodad wants is to blend in, but he seriously can’t help but make a mess out of everything. Needless to say, Octodad has a lot of trouble when it comes to that level of precision. This is especially hilarious towards the beginning of the game, when you’re instructed to walk down a very narrow aisle at a wedding. The controls are intentionally unreliable, which means your octopus will spend a lot of time swinging its tentacles around the map, causing a whole bunch of misfortune. Personally, I can’t help but be a little bit charmed. Do you think an octopus romping around a suburban neighborhood is funny? If that conceit doesn’t grab you, then Octodad doesn’t have much else to offer. This draws a very specific line in the sand. Because of this, Octodad is characterized as a deeply stressed-out creature, constantly terrified that his true identity will be unceremoniously revealed to his blissfully ignorant family. Outside of a few marine biologists and an angry sushi chef, nobody in the world recognizes your latent aquatic nature. You must mow the lawns, chop the firewood, and buy the groceries. Its story is simple: you are the father figure in a classic American household, and you are also an octopus. Whether that’s worth your monetary investment really comes down to your particular definition of genius. It is more gag than game, a borderline troll job with its heart in the right place. Originally built by a couple students back in 2010, Octodad is meant to befuddle, beguile, flabbergast, and delight. If that doesn’t infer the general tone of Octodad: Dadliest Catch, I’m not sure what will. It’s a game where you’re an octopus in a business suit, inhabiting a world in which everyone, including your wife and kids, is delicately unaware that you are an octopus in a business suit.
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