While there will undoubtedly be complaints from those who simply look at Octodad as a game (and nothing more), there’s a heartwarming story to be told, if you’re willing to take the time to look for it.īut let’s not get crazy or anything. Yet, developer Young Horses has pulled it all off. Playing as an octopus is already silly enough, but stuffing him into a cheap three-piece suit and tasking him with living a normal life all while continuing to pass off as a loving father is insane. On the flipside, the conclusion to the story is well worth sticking around for, and if you’re anything like me you’ll probably want to immediately re-live your favourite moments.Octodad: Dadliest Catch’s premise is, at its very core, inherently stupid. It’s also a nightmare with a keyboard and mouse, so I strongly recommend that you play this section with a controller. There’s also the option to play through the game controlling Octodad cooperatively with up to three friends, which is an inspired inclusion.ĭadliest Catch does go out on something of a sour note, however, with a poorly judged final mission that’s action-focused and punitive, in contrast to the more breezy vibe of other levels.
Steam Workshop support may help address the question of longevity, and completionists can seek out the ties hidden in each level and attempt to beat the developers’ best times. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish there were more levels! It’s charming and funny, but I would have loved to see developer Young Horses push the ideas a little further, perhaps through optional side-missions that introduced a steeper challenge. Elsewhere, there are mini-games to test your tentacle-eye coordination, ventilation shafts to thread through, and the answer to the age-old question: “Can an octopus posing as a human climb an escalator that’s determined to go down as quickly as possible?”Īnd the follow-up question: “Can an octopus disguised as a human in a hammerhead shark outfit fool eagle-eyed biologists?” Climbing an obstacle course in the aquarium is a highlight, with ladders, bridges, and zip-lines, but it’s just one location within the complex. You’re whisked from mowing the lawn and making coffee at home to climbing through freezer cabinets and shopping for soda in a supermarket, and on to a terrifying trip to the aquarium, where posters featuring a stern-faced scientist and the text “Our biologists know a fish when they see one” threaten to expose our hero as the cephalopod in disguise that he is.Įach level presents its own riffs on the core gameplay.
There’s plenty of variety in objectives, and no one idea outstays its welcome. That’s fine, of course I’d prefer to be charmed than frustrated, but it’ll only take a couple of hours to play through the story. I burst out laughing when he started burbling a ditty to himself at one point.Ī side effect of the focus on comedy, however, is that Dadliest Catch is just not that hard Octodad is far happier being the goofy, easy-going friend that makes you laugh than it is trying to be your demanding drill sergeant who delights in testing your will to go on. Think Futurama’s Zoidberg and you’d be on the right track. His every burble is translated to hilarious effect during conversations with his family, or when he’s steeling himself to action, and it’s complemented by great sound work. Octodad is a lovable lead character, too. Dadliest Catch revels in the inherent humour of its concept, littering areas with physics objects to get caught on or to clamber up, or liberally applying that slapstick staple – the banana peel – to its environments. If John Cleese were an invertebrate, his silly walk would look something like this. It’s just innately funny controlling Octodad as he staggers and stumbles.
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Unlike other games from a similar lineage, such as QWOP or Surgeon Simulator 2013, Octodad’s humour isn’t derived from an arcane difficulty or overly elaborate controls, but from physical comedy, pure and simple.
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