Good luck, Stephen Tailby – that's all we've got to say. Our intrepid reviewer kindly volunteered to review One Way Trip, and he's probably wishing that he hadn't right about now. Deemed as a narrative-driven experience about life and death, this curious visual novel-esque thing is probably one of the strangest titles that we've ever played.
The game starts out with two brothers "shooting the sh*t" before a football game, when it's revealed that the water that they've been drinking is contaminated. To a backdrop of headache inducing audio, the title doesn't take long to set out its stall – but it gets weirder from there. One "minigame" sees you assume the role of a stoner who watches cartoons about a person who can fit apples up his anus.
We're not making any of this up.
Y'know, when people complain about the production values of PlayStation 4 indies, we often roll our eyes. This game, though… Wow. Your humble hasn't finished the "story" so should probably refrain judgement for now, but based on what we've seen, it's an abhorrent experience masquerading as something more meaningful. Perhaps our poor, poor Mr. Tailby will return with a more positive report.
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I can safely say I don't want this game.
@Speedy67 An understandable response.
The pinnacle of hipster. I couldn't force myself to pay enough attention to decide if it was funny or not, my guess is I'm supposed to be under the influence of such and such to enjoy this?
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I guess so. If you can't stand the whole "hipster, drug culture" thing, you should see the minigame. It basically involves beatniks dragging back on some of the "strong" stuff moaning about going to school.
I wanted to cave my head in playing that bit. Maybe that's the point... Not sure.
@Neolit The No Man's Sky review comprised of an all expenses paid (by PS) trip to NASA, where they had built a "review rig" too large to ship out to me. I played the game for 10-hour stints using true to life flight and navigation controls, and 65daysofstatic (the band behind the OST) performed live as I played.
That seemed to be the ideal setup, so I'm not surprised the mountains of people playing with a measly DualShock aren't necessarily getting the same experience. All the NASA folks are having a blast with it.
Oh hey, that's probably the reason we couldn't afford a wheel - sorry guys!
On topic - no comment
As long as I can Instagram it while drinking my Soya Latte Moccachino, wearing tweed and stroking my coiffured man beard, I'll be totes ok.
It's the music that kills it for me. How can you read anything with that bloody terrible soundtrack drilling into your skull?
Wooooooow. That music.
Noooope.
Wow..utterly awful.And a free copy of the soundtrack with each game won't help the sales either..
Looks like garbage. Hot, hipster-pandering garbage.
I quite like the look of this. I like surreal humour. Not for everyone, of course, but what is?
While I can't see myself buying this, I've gotta say I'm so, so glad stuff like this exists. More diversity in games is never a bad thing and this looks very interesting and distinctive, if nothing else. If I was a reviewer I'd love having a crack at this, could be absolute gold to write about.
At the end of the day it's a lot like cinema - there are some absolutely insane, abrasive and challenging films out there, both short- and long-form - and they're not for everyone. They're not gonna see any screentime in the IMAX and they're not going to make their creators rich. But they exist and for those that enjoy exploring them and trying to find something in them, they're great. Heck, even some huge, genre-defining mainstream films have godawful soundtracks.
I'm not one who fusses over artstyle (I can jump from Mega Man to The Witcher etc) but even I'm finding this off putting. It looks like something Jim Sterling would do an Jimpressions off.
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