![]() But were someone to discover your true nature, it's game over and your peaceful little family life gets torn to shreds - the family life you've spent so long building. Fortunately, no-one starts off being suspicious in the slightest, and providing you don't cause too much chaos, (or seem to struggle performing ordinary tasks that most normal humans could manage) Octodad should be able to life his life in relative peace. Despite being a bright orange squid in a blue tuxedo, it's imperative that no-one finds out you're not a human, or else. Whether you're making coffee in the morning, mowing the lawn, or even cooking hamburgers with your kids, thanks to your floppy limbs and sucker-covered tentacles, everything you do is profoundly and hilariously awkward. Having no bones may sound like an advantage, but it makes performing every day tasks really, really hard. It loses its charm if you’ve been trying repeatedly for 15 minutes, but someone else with better luck can quickly navigate the same puzzle on the second or third try thanks to the random nature of Octodad’s limb control.A slapstick fatherhood simulator, Octodad is a game that manages to turn even the most mundane of tasks into events that'll have you rolling around on the floor with laughter. It’s funny to drop a key once or twice while trying to slide it into a lock. It’s being forced to repeat such sections over and over again that threaten to make Octodad’s system-based humor wear thin. The clunky nature of the controls can still create some bottlenecks where even a simple task like walking a straight line is based more on luck than skill. That’s not the spirit that Octodad was intended, and while the game has actually been tweaked to make it easier than its original PC release, that doesn’t mean it’s now perfectly balanced. For another kind of gamer, the shoddy controls will be infuriating, especially if you’re the sort that derives enjoyment from playing a game as quickly and efficiently as possible. For a certain type of gamer, there will be huge laughs and big grins at watching Octodad fail at even the simplest tasks in epic fashion. It’s short, clocking in at only about three to four hours depending on how you play, and the game is a constant battle against the deliberately designed wonky controls. This is where the game is going to divide people. 1) You are doing this as an octopus in disguise, and if a “suspicion meter” crosses a certain threshold, people finally realize your true nature, and 2) the controls are intentionally horrible. But there are two things that make this a far more surreal experience. These tasks range from simple things like clearing off a table to sneaking past groups of marine biologists. Octodad’s premise is simple enough it’s a third person “action” game that only requires you complete certain tasks to advance to the next level. People need to understand that while Octodad is a comedy, the comedy comes from the game systems themselves, not from jokes written up for wry delivery-although those are in there too. ![]() Clearly, Activision is not going to pump out this game on a yearly basis. You play an octopus disguised as a human, married, with kids, and constantly evading pursuit from a deranged sushi chef. ![]() Octodad: Dadliest Catch is nonpareil in this regard. The reason some people play indie titles is that the more experimental nature of these smaller games allow them to go places no sane, AAA publisher would allow.
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