(The game can be completed in twoish hours, if you’re hyper-fixated on finishing, though there’s plenty of replay potential.)īut I did find myself missing the secret sauce of other comedy-chaos games. I experienced a pleasant “just one more level” feeling that made it hard to tear myself away. Cruising around and blasting little landscapes is a stupid delight, as is the chaos as the toys frantically try to run away. It’s all imaginary fun, so it doesn’t feel as though you’re dooming your soul as thoroughly as it would in higher fidelity.Īs for the fun: Oh yes, it is that. The humans are Lego-style figures, the trees are yarn, the cloud is cardboard. Mitigating all this suffering is the adorable art style, which renders everything - including flames - as cutesy arts & crafts. When you are good, you are very good indeed and when you are bad you are horrid. There is also a level in which you must set fire to an office the workers all rush to the door, but because of the game’s physics, they wind up creating a barricade that traps them inside with the flames. The most arresting level describes a child who neglected to invite another kid to a birthday party your job, as cloud, is to “set all presents on fire” by spreading the flames from a birthday cake. Later, you’ll use your rainy powers to grow trees, your cyclone to gather cows onto a train, and your lightning to return an alien to its spaceship. (At least, until the human characters get too close to the dumpster and catch on fire.) But the second involves extinguishing a dumpster fire, which in contrast seems downright altruistic. The first level of the game requires that the player ruin a wedding, which made me uneasy. If I may get all Mudede-esque about this for a moment: The French philosopher Henri Bergson once described such comedy as a “temporary anesthesia of the heart,” a numbing of sympathy for just a moment that allows you to laugh at a stranger’s misfortune.
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