Developed by: Young Horses
Genre: Adventure?
Game System: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, iOS, Android, Not the kitchen sink
Price: $14.99 ($4.99 on smartphones)
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You know, I suddenly realize that this is the second game I’ve reviewed that involves orange humanoid cephalopods. There must be some sort of connection here.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the popular 2010 student game Octodad. The game stars Octodad, an octopus who pretends to be human and lives a… relatively normal life with his wife, Scarlet, and his two kids, Stacy and Tommy. I’m not entirely sure how he keeps up his secret identity considering he always talks in noises even the caption writer can barely understand and quite clearly has tentacles for arms and legs, but it’s best not to look too deep into it. Though on what started out as an average day, a trip to the aquarium (you know, those prisons for sea creatures like the octopus?) becomes disastrous when a crazy chef obsessed with revealing Octodad’s secret gets involved. Throughout this weird adventure we learn the origins of Octodad while we help him do normal everyday activities that would be easy for most people and make sure that nobody finds out his true nature. Sounds easy, right? Well, I haven’t even mentioned the controls.
As an octopus, Octodad doesn’t move like a human being. He moves with his tentacles. Each tentacle is controlled by a different button, and as you can clearly see in that picture up there he can stretch them very far. It’s sort of hard to explain exactly how it works, but just imagine if there was a game where to walk you had to say when and how far your left foot moves in front of your right, and to pick something up you had to say exactly what direction each arm moved. It’s basically like that, but with tentacles. This results in a lot of accidentally knocking stuff over, slapping people in the face, and just general slapstick. The multiplayer mode just adds to the insanity, with up to four players controlling each tentacle independent from each other.
Every time you hit somebody by accident or knock a ton of stuff over in a human’s eyesight, a meter on the bottom of the screen goes up. This meter is what indicates whether people are getting suspicious of what species that strange orange man with six necks and a tentacle-shaped mustache is. When this meter gets full, it’s game over. It’s usually easy the avoid this, but in certain levels there are people that will immediately recognize you as an octopus, where you have to be very cautious not to get caught.
This game isn’t necessarily trying too hard to be a serious game, it’s main focus is comedy. Of course there’s just the hilarious slapstick potential with how the game is controlled, but there’s also the scripted dialogue that occurs during the levels. Oh, and don’t even get me started on the pop culture reference barrage that is the grocery store level! There is no other game in the world where I can say I threw a My Little Pony toy at a box of Minecraft themed ice cream. Of course, a lot of the references might go over your head if you aren’t familiar enough with YouTube gaming culture. Most average people probably won’t understand the joke in the Total Biscuits brand food and Kevin’s Sturgeon Simulator, although most of the jokes require absolutely no knowledge of anything besides basic knowledge of what octopodes do (yes, that is a plural form of octopus apparently).
This game has gameplay that can be confusing at first but quickly becomes fun once you get the hang of it, along with a story that will make you want to know what happens next and will get some good laughs out of you. I give this game 7 boxes of Mintcraft brand ice cream out of 10.
Genre: Adventure?
Game System: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Wii U, iOS, Android, Not the kitchen sink
Price: $14.99 ($4.99 on smartphones)
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You know, I suddenly realize that this is the second game I’ve reviewed that involves orange humanoid cephalopods. There must be some sort of connection here.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the popular 2010 student game Octodad. The game stars Octodad, an octopus who pretends to be human and lives a… relatively normal life with his wife, Scarlet, and his two kids, Stacy and Tommy. I’m not entirely sure how he keeps up his secret identity considering he always talks in noises even the caption writer can barely understand and quite clearly has tentacles for arms and legs, but it’s best not to look too deep into it. Though on what started out as an average day, a trip to the aquarium (you know, those prisons for sea creatures like the octopus?) becomes disastrous when a crazy chef obsessed with revealing Octodad’s secret gets involved. Throughout this weird adventure we learn the origins of Octodad while we help him do normal everyday activities that would be easy for most people and make sure that nobody finds out his true nature. Sounds easy, right? Well, I haven’t even mentioned the controls.
As an octopus, Octodad doesn’t move like a human being. He moves with his tentacles. Each tentacle is controlled by a different button, and as you can clearly see in that picture up there he can stretch them very far. It’s sort of hard to explain exactly how it works, but just imagine if there was a game where to walk you had to say when and how far your left foot moves in front of your right, and to pick something up you had to say exactly what direction each arm moved. It’s basically like that, but with tentacles. This results in a lot of accidentally knocking stuff over, slapping people in the face, and just general slapstick. The multiplayer mode just adds to the insanity, with up to four players controlling each tentacle independent from each other.
Every time you hit somebody by accident or knock a ton of stuff over in a human’s eyesight, a meter on the bottom of the screen goes up. This meter is what indicates whether people are getting suspicious of what species that strange orange man with six necks and a tentacle-shaped mustache is. When this meter gets full, it’s game over. It’s usually easy the avoid this, but in certain levels there are people that will immediately recognize you as an octopus, where you have to be very cautious not to get caught.
This game isn’t necessarily trying too hard to be a serious game, it’s main focus is comedy. Of course there’s just the hilarious slapstick potential with how the game is controlled, but there’s also the scripted dialogue that occurs during the levels. Oh, and don’t even get me started on the pop culture reference barrage that is the grocery store level! There is no other game in the world where I can say I threw a My Little Pony toy at a box of Minecraft themed ice cream. Of course, a lot of the references might go over your head if you aren’t familiar enough with YouTube gaming culture. Most average people probably won’t understand the joke in the Total Biscuits brand food and Kevin’s Sturgeon Simulator, although most of the jokes require absolutely no knowledge of anything besides basic knowledge of what octopodes do (yes, that is a plural form of octopus apparently).
This game has gameplay that can be confusing at first but quickly becomes fun once you get the hang of it, along with a story that will make you want to know what happens next and will get some good laughs out of you. I give this game 7 boxes of Mintcraft brand ice cream out of 10.