High On Life Review

Published by 28 Dec, 2022 0 likes

The outgoing year turned out to be very strange for Microsoft — especially after a busy 2021.

In fact, the Obsidian studio was taking the rap for the Xbox team this year, which managed to release two small but bright projects.

But in mid-December, one of the creators of the animated series "Rick and Morty" Justin Royland fell out of a snuffbox to save Phil Spencer's sinking reputation.

The High on Life shooter has become the most unexpected surprise of 2022, which, for all its shortcomings, manages to catch on.

Royland founded the studio Squanch Games to realize his craziest gaming fantasies.

High on Life is the result of this approach: the project combines a whole bunch of ideas from various popular games, which are held together by acid humor in the style of "Rick and Morty".

The plot is as follows. The player takes control of a zoomer, a sociophobe who has to save the population of the Earth from the alien drug cartel G3, who decided to turn people into a new mass drug.

In the hunt for villains, the main character will be helped by his hyperactive sister Lizzie and the legless homeless Gene, who was once a famous bounty hunter.

However, the central role in the adventures of the zoomer-fighter is assigned to the last representatives of the Gatlian race — intelligent beings who can shoot from the back passages.

Each of them is a unique analogue of a blaster that needs to be used competently in battle. Before getting acquainted with High on Life, you need to keep one important thing in mind.

The Royland Artel is not so much trying to make you laugh, as to test your patience for strength. That is why, from the very beginning, he tries to annoy himself with annoying chatter.

Everyone is chattering incessantly here, except the main buzzer, who acts as a silent protagonist.

In addition, the player is constantly trying to take on weakly with the help of characters who purposefully infuriate.

There is also an armful of meaningless challenges for perseverance, designed to troll the audience.

At the same time, the perception of High on Life is influenced by the fact that the developers have chosen the cult The Darkness as one of the sources for imitation.

Several full-length films of category B were put into the game, including such cult films as "Tammy and T-Rex", "Vampire Whores" and "Bloody Harvest".

And as a bonus, you can find a cinema here where you can watch the horror "Wind of Demons" with comments from bloggers from the YouTube channel RedLetterMedia.

The traditional format of intergalactic television for Rick and Morty has not gone anywhere, when the creators finally hit the impromptu and start talking nonsense, which they then somehow try to visualize.

It is possible that some of the material was given out by the actors in a state of alcoholic intoxication.

The problem is that with this approach, the shortcomings in Royland's working methods become more visible.

The actors constantly stutter and mumble nonsense, which hits the unprepared player very hard in the ears.

Yes, episodes of "Rick and Morty" were made in this style, but in the animated series they did not fill up with such volumes of text.

In addition, it is worth putting up with huge flows of toilet humor and just vulgarity.