There aren’t many games out there that star brutal martial-arts bunnies as their hero, much less any that capture the thrill of being in a Jet Li martial arts flick. You can’t accuse Overgrowth of being derivative. Two of the most popular ones currently just let Turner kick doggie butt in zone that looks like a small American city and another that makes all the dogs look and sound like Gabe from the bork-bork memes. Developer Wolfire Games seems to hope players will fill in the content gaps with mods, but I wouldn't get my hopes up based on what's currently available. Overgrowth simply isn’t where it needs to be right now. Worse, these essential hints often aren’t mentioned again in the truncated cutscenes you watch on a retry. Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if Overgrowth’s objectives were more clearly stated as it is, I usually only got a few clues from the conversations in the cutscenes that precede each level. And this is to say nothing of the times when I needed to restart the level because I inadvertently bounded Turner into places he was never meant to go, thereby trapping myself between invisible walls. But Overgrowth is stuffed with other design problems, such as the way I frequently found myself unable to trigger cutscenes because I didn’t approach some NPCs from the precise direction I was “supposed” to. This would be more maddening if checkpoints weren’t frequent and load times for retries weren’t rapid. Like so much of Overgrowth, there’s little consistency in terms of what makes one approach work and one fail.Īll dogs go to whatever hellish nightmare world this is.
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Overgrowth is full of distant jumps that look impossible but end up being safe in the end, but it’s also full of shorter jumps that weirdly leave him crushing his poor bunny legs upon landing. Jump again toward the same spot, though, and he’ll make it. Platforming itself is rarely precise: in some cases, Turner will land on what seems like a spot for a handhold, but nevertheless plummets to his death. These levels are fun in concept, or at least when the action remains limited to jumping from ledge to ledge rather than trying to mimic wall runs from Prince of Persia. But the problems of learning what works and what doesn’t are never so annoying as they are in Overgrowth’s frequent platforming segments. But it's so effective that it kind of feels like cheesing Overgrowth's combat system, but considering there's really no rhyme or reason to the way it works, breaking it doesn’t seem like much of a crime. Whenever I'd find myself in a tough spot, I'd fall back on Turner's flying kick move that requires nothing more than a jump and a left mouse click to kick an enemy in the face. “One move, in particular, is godly to a fault. In its best moments, Overgrowth captures the exhilaration of wuxia films in a way few other games manage. Subtlety more your thring? Just send Turner into sneaking into camp and slash the throats of the pernicious pooches before they can even whimper. (Surprisingly, Overgrowth is much more fun and intuitive with a keyboard and mouse rather than a gamepad.) Press Q and he fires off spears into the backs of dastardly dogs. Press shift, and he dodges attacks with swords that could kill him in one shot. Once on the ground, he can perform timed parries that send the ruffians tumbling on their backs, sometimes nabbing their spears, swords, or daggers for himself in the process. Turner’s about as hardy as a scrap of paper, but as a rabbit, he can leap across distances like Neo hopscotching skyscrapers in The Matrix and then land feet-first into the face of hateful Labrador Retrievers in samurai armor. By extension, it's what Overgrowth is best at. “As Turner says himself, it's what he's best at.
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