![]() ![]() ![]() But Nidhogg was at its best when it stuck you and your opponent on the opposite end of a narrow corridor, where your excuses for failure were just as slight as your fencer’s breathing room. Your reward for reaching the far end is the honor of being summarily devoured by a horrible-looking Norse dragon.Įach battle was a series of quick, fatal matches across multiple sparse screens, your character’s small but deadly fights playing out against backdrops with massive swinging chandeliers or cascading waterfalls. Slicing down or otherwise killing your enemy gives you a few seconds to run forward before they respawn. One player achieves victory by reaching the far end of their opponent’s side of the stage. No one-on-one game better tested your twitch reflexes this year than Nidhogg, a fencing game where a single direct blow was fatal and blocking was a matter of pixel-precise timing. If accidentally demolishing a kitchen while trying to grab a plate as a yellow flailing ragdoll makes you laugh as much as we still do after two years of development, we at Young Horses will have achieved all we’ve aspired to.Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PC, Mac Octodad’s entire existence is a spectacle, and we hope that with the help of things like the sharing features of the PlayStation 4 you’ll be able to spread this insanity to your friends to brighten their day (or raise their awareness of the challenges of the octopus everyman). You love them, and it would be devastating to have them turn their backs on you for being the odd octopode out. If they find out that you’ve only been masquerading as a human, it’s game over. While navigating the world, you must try not to be too conspicuous while others are watching, or do anything to draw suspicion from your family. ![]() You’ll know when Octodad has been in a room: toppled bookshelves, broken dishes, flipped tables and every piece of furniture rearranged, as if by a bulldozer. It’s not easy to control a flopping ragdoll of a humanoid.Īll of this comes together as an elegant dance that often ends in the destruction of your surroundings. Need to open a door? Navigate his tentacle…ahem…I mean arm to the knob and grab hold for dear life. Want to walk across the room? You get to control each wobbly step. Conquering the movement of this marionette made of jello is at the core of the game.Įach of Octodad’s limbs can be independently articulated in order to attempt to accomplish seemingly mundane tasks. The way Octodad: Dadliest Catch is played communicates this struggle through the control of Octodad’s body. There are hardships in Octodad’s life, to say the least. Oh, and you have eight arms you’ve managed to stuff into a fancy suit to form a human shape. All those things we humans take for granted, like counteracting gravity, are a constant challenge. As you can imagine, that makes it hard to simply move around outside of water. You may be asking yourself, “Well, what’s so difficult about being an octopus?”Well, first off, you’re an invertebrate, so you have no bones. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the first slapstick fatherhood simulator, and we’re excited to say that we’ll be bringing it to the PlayStation 4 in 2014. They, however, have no idea of your secret cephalopod nature. This is what Octodad: Dadliest Catch is all about. ![]() Maybe you’re not really the perfect human husband and father of three, but actually an octopus. Have you ever felt out of place? Just don’t feel you’re good enough, no matter how hard you try? Maybe you’ve got something to hide from the world. ![]()
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