![]() ![]() When you can barely walk in a straight line, that's easier said than done. As posters all around the aquarium - a hub for the later stages of the game - let you know, marine biologists know a fish when they see one - and so you need try and stay out of sight. Oddly enough, while that doesn't include putting your leg behind your ear in the middle of an aquarium, or even demolishing an entire gift shop in front of the staff, it does include crashing into to people, knocking over priceless objects, or simply being in the line of sight of a dastardly marine biologist. While there's no health bar as such, you do have a detection bar at the bottom of the screen, which fills up as you do things that any normal human being wouldn't be doing. Learn all about octopuses - and hope no-one sees you! Whether you're having to navigate your way across a narrow ledge, make your way down the aforementioned wedding aisle (which is lined with plinths you can easily send flying), or making your way around an adventure playground, each level is overflowing with potential for slip ups (in a good way). While they may all be based around everyday activities, each of the levels in Octodad has been designed to make things as awkward - and therefore as funny - as possible. Yes, if you have four DualShock 4 controllers, you and three friends can each take control of one of Octodad's limbs - and if you thought you were having trouble co-ordinating yourself before, you try getting an octopus around a supermarket with all four limbs trying to move in separate directions. Not content with creating the oddest control scheme known to man, the team at Young Horses have made it better in the only way you could ever really improve on a game like Octodad - by adding multiplayer. It's genuinely laugh out loud stuff - and a game the Playstation 4's Share button was designed for, as you'll be sharing so many clips, your friends will be sick of you.Īnd the chaos only gets worse. Even when you're trying to be careful, his limbs seem to have a mind of their own, as you'll fling a bottle of tomato sauce into the stratosphere, before accidentally wrapping your arm (tentacle?) around your child's throat, when all you were trying to do was put some sauce on his burger. ![]() Flopping and wobbling all over the place, Octodad is about as steady as a jelly in an earthquake, and it's impossible to stop him careering off course, or looking like he's slowly deflating into the nearest freezer. Sounds simple enough, but what you end up with is sheer hilarity. When you're not holding L2 or R2, the left and right sticks let you control Octodad's arm (singular), while L1 lets you grab onto things, if you need to pick something up. It's not as simple as just pushing the stick and watching Octodad slither his way to where you tell him - instead, you have full control over Octodad's limbs, even if sometimes you wish you hadn't. The L2 and R2 buttons are used to lift each of Octodad's legs, with the thumbsticks used to move them around. All simple enough, you'd think - but remember, this is an octopus we're talking about - and that makes this slapstick at its finest.Įverything here has been designed to cause chaos - from the banana peels that seem to litter the entire land (from wedding aisle to the fruit and veg counter at the shops), to the barmy controls, that seem to have been designed to be as manic as possible. The first level takes place at the wedding, where you have to guide your cephalopod friend down the aisle the next sees you flipping burgers and mowing the lawn (!?) and the the next has you doing the weekly shop in a supermarket. In fact, he can barely even stand up straight for any prolonged periods of time without flopping about all over the place - and so, your challenge is to get things done, as normally as he humanly octopusly can, without arousing suspicion.Įach level in the game follows a fairly normal, everyday scenario. And that means he doesn't have any bones. With a wife and kids (although who knows where they came from) to look after, while other games have bombastic storylines about saving the world, all Octodad has to do is go about his day to day family life. The titular Octodad is an everyday, common or seabed octopus, pretending to be a person. Bundled in amongst a collection of other indie games on stage at giant games convention, E3, it would be easy to miss were it not for one reason - it was completely and utterly insane.Īs is the way with most genius, it starts with a simple enough premise. ![]() From the moment it was announced, Octodad: Dadliest Catch sprung straight to the top of our most wanted list. ![]()
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