Date played: July 13th
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 9/10
It's rare that a game is actually funny, but Stick it to The Man pulls it off.
This is an old school 2D adventure game with a few platforming elements. It feels a lot like something Tim Schafer would have made. It has the weird adventure game items and scenarios and a style the reminds me very much of Psychonauts. It's also pretty damn funny for the most part.
Ray is a dumb dude who works at a construction site. He gets hit on the head by some alien artifact and grows a weird spaghetti hand on his head. He can use this to grab stickers that are used in puzzles, pull himself on ledges, slap stickers on stuff and read people's minds.
The game has tons of weird settings too. In the four or five levels I played, I visited Ray's mind twice and explored the city and a carnival. It's all completely insane, as are the scenarios. My favorite so far was about getting a ride home. The whole situation is about a man who is about to hang himself. He wants to kill himself because his pea-brained girlfriend left him for an old dude with shiny teeth. So the whole level is about finding the man some nice new dentures. To do that, I had to find a cannibal chef, steal a hand he was cooking, bait a crocodile with the hand, steal the croc's teeth, stick those on a little dog, which scared off some mob dudes, free the man in the mob's car trunk, send him to the local dance competition, have him win against the brainless girlfriend and have the old fart choke on his own teeth and spit them out. Of course, I grabbed the fake choppers, gave them to the depressed man and his dumb girlfriend came running back. The man then agreed to give me a lift home in his car.
Yep, this game is fucking nuts.
The mind reading stuff is cool as that's where most of the hints come from. The platforming is pretty dumb though. One level was focused on avoiding bad guys and honestly, it was pretty boring. The mechanics are too simple for it to be any fun. I really like all the adventure puzzles though.
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 9/10
It's rare that a game is actually funny, but Stick it to The Man pulls it off.
This is an old school 2D adventure game with a few platforming elements. It feels a lot like something Tim Schafer would have made. It has the weird adventure game items and scenarios and a style the reminds me very much of Psychonauts. It's also pretty damn funny for the most part.
Ray is a dumb dude who works at a construction site. He gets hit on the head by some alien artifact and grows a weird spaghetti hand on his head. He can use this to grab stickers that are used in puzzles, pull himself on ledges, slap stickers on stuff and read people's minds.
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| Stick it to The Man is a weird, wacky game |
Yep, this game is fucking nuts.
The mind reading stuff is cool as that's where most of the hints come from. The platforming is pretty dumb though. One level was focused on avoiding bad guys and honestly, it was pretty boring. The mechanics are too simple for it to be any fun. I really like all the adventure puzzles though.
