You’re whisked from mowing the lawn and making coffee at home to climbing through freezer cabinets and shopping for soda in a supermarket, and on to a terrifying trip to the aquarium, where posters featuring a stern-faced scientist and the text “Our biologists know a fish when they see one” threaten to expose our hero as the cephalopod in disguise that he is.Įach level presents its own riffs on the core gameplay. There’s plenty of variety in objectives, and no one idea outstays its welcome. That’s fine, of course I’d prefer to be charmed than frustrated, but it’ll only take a couple of hours to play through the story - even with the new objectives that have been added for PS4 since the initial PC release. I burst out laughing when he started burbling a ditty to himself at one point.Ī side effect of the focus on comedy, however, is that Dadliest Catch is just not that hard Octodad is far happier being the goofy, easy-going friend that makes you laugh than it is trying to be your demanding drill sergeant who delights in testing your will to go on. Think Futurama’s Zoidberg and you’d be on the right track. His every burble is translated to hilarious effect during conversations with his family, or when he’s steeling himself to action, and it’s complemented by great sound work. Octodad is a lovable lead character, too. Dadliest Catch revels in the inherent humour of its concept, littering areas with physics objects to get caught on or to clamber up, or liberally applying that slapstick staple – the banana peel – to its environments. If John Cleese were an invertebrate, his silly walk would look something like this. It’s just innately funny controlling Octodad as he staggers and stumbles. Unlike other games from a similar lineage, such as QWOP or Surgeon Simulator 2013, Octodad’s humour isn’t derived from an arcane difficulty or overly elaborate controls, but from physical comedy, pure and simple.
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