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So much for intuiting how to apply everything we’ve learned, no, it’s basically just the Icon of Sin again but wearing flared trousers and shutter shades.

Ammo’s limited, but disappointingly it’s the only weapon you can use against the final boss. But then the game gives you a rocket launcher that corrects all fashion mistakes instantly and the bottom rather drops out of the game’s trousers. And throwing things just isn’t as satisfying as a gun, especially throwing 2D sprites in a 3D world where the physics interaction upon landing is going to be like two hummingbirds having a slap fight.Ĭombat can actually get pretty bloody hard, especially near the end, when you’re getting towel flicked and atomic wedgied from all sides trying to pick a target and remember if you’re supposed to use the steam iron or the hair straighteners first. Yeah, that joke didn’t really land for me. It creates a more formalised version of the usual FPS gameplay of having to pick the right tool for the job from moment to moment, and sometimes requires a little intuition when a new enemy shows up and you have to deduce that their specific fashion crime involves footwear and as such calls for the use of your sock gnomes. The only thing a sewing needle gun can to do to a bloke in a speedo is, absolute best case scenario, inflict a vasectomy.

Ill Fitting Suit except give him the chance to audition as a pride parade flag. The dye gun isn’t going to do shit to Mr. And it does do some interesting stuff with the mechanics in that each enemy can only be defeated by a specific gun. It’s a game with hidden depths and a lot of imagination that I rather enjoyed. Well, sort of, but don’t write Fashion Police Squad off so easily. Just with bullets replaced with sewing needles and corpses replaced with grateful conformists now being accepted into society. But before you do that, isn’t this mechanically just your standard FPS with non-violent language pasted on?Īll you’re doing is shooting baddies until they stop moving. “Yahtzee, you are a warm hunk of red hot animal charisma and I need you slamming up against my love crevices pronto. In a utopian fashion-obsessed future city we play a sort of gender-swapped Grace Jones who is a cop on patrol for fashion crimes, with a dye gun for adding life to drab business suits and a sewing needle gun that somehow only targets baggy trousers and not eyeballs. So between this and Cult of the Lamb we could have called this “light-hearted fascist authoritarian enforcement of conformity season.” But let’s not read too much into Fashion Police Squad, because its tongue couldn’t go any further into its cheek without causing some kind of rupture. A first person shooter – oh, FPS, Fashion Police Squad, that was a sneaky one – in which we pacify hordes of pixel art sprite enemies by altering their clothes to be more flattering, thus removing their hostile instincts. Yeah, that popped a few monocles, didn’t it.

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View Full TranscriptĪlright, how’s this for innovation: a retro-style boomer shooter with subtracted death.

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Cursed To Golf, golf simulator with – actually I’ve just noticed the common thread, there.

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Rollerdrome, Tony Hawk’s pro skater with added death. Cult of the Lamb, management sim with added death. But elsewhere there’s been plenty of innovative new ideas that have paid off. Brought back too many unpleasant memories from when I used to work in data validation. Felt like the exact opposite of streamlining the process. For want of some unique spin on the combat it came up with this whole thing where you stab the baddies but then you have to stab them with your secondary weapon to make the first stab happen for realsies, and I kinda bounced off that. I’ve played tons of interesting games lately. Killing it and stuffing it and mounting it on the mantlepiece to make uncomfortable eye contact with dinner guests. But the indie and midlevel sector are killing it right now. All the big money industry’s given us lately is Annapurna’s smash hit bumhole licking simulator and that one Smash Bros knockoff where Shaggy from Scooby Doo beats up the Muppet Babies or whatever. Who’s this craven miseryguts going around saying there’s a release drought on? In triple-A, maybe.