Bit of story you want is it? Well okay then. You play Ghat, human looking skinny guy who retells the story of how he discovered a dirty secret and attacked a creature called father-mother. This creature is a hermaphrodite and spawns the vast majority of all the human/animal creatures, so when you give it a bit of a slap you get all your brothers and sisters in a right tizz and they follow you trying to beat the snot out of you.
You relive the fights and situations up to the beating you give to father-mother as you tell the story in flashbacks. At the same time you're journeying around and fighting to escape your brothers and sisters. It's all a bit memento and it works really well.
The fighting is definitely the highlight of this for me, but will turn other people off. First person, restrictive viewing and a lot of moves to master. The fights against multiple enemies are tense affairs where if you linger on a beating of one opponent too long then you'll soon get a tree branch or similar to the back of the head. The guns are just shit enough that you'd rather fight, but when you need to use them they perform the job perfectly.
Voice acting is a bit flat on occasion, but I keep forgetting it's actually indie because generally all the work done is superb.
Fighting clicked for me after one point, before it was surviving with button mashing and not really finding any rhythm but suddenly I was dodging, snap kicking and upper cutting like motherfucking Chuck Norris.
Pro -
- It's about 4/5 hours of story, I like this because it isn't a game that could go on for a long time without becoming a bit stale.
- It is really rather beautiful, the physics are top notch, the ideas are hatstand and it's fun to enjoy just standing watching strange things going on in a multi-coloured landscape.
- The fighting works very well and they've put a lot of effort into getting the physics and hit detection working well.
Con -
- It's rather buggy, but the ace team are very active in the steam forums and have addressed quite a few issues quickly and helpfully.
- It's about 4/5 hours long, if you want more game for your money you won't get it here.
- If you like answers answered then you'll hate the ending of this because it leaves the whole more wide open. Ridiculously so in fact.
7.5/10
