We’re not witnessing a new era of puzzles here, just rehashing some favorites and making you think for a few seconds between jokes.Īnd just like the puzzles, the artistic style is simplified as well. Puzzles involve kicking exploding boomblooms into walls, rocks, or even square watermelons used to fill square holes. The first tool you get in Turnip Boy is a watering can and you can use that to grow seeds, which is the primary puzzle-solving tool. Again though, Turnip Boy is a vehicle for humor, not puzzles, so while there were some puzzles that fell on the elaborate side of light, I never felt overwhelmed or helpless with what was provided. I particularly enjoyed how simple the puzzles to progress were and how they did a great job of teaching what they expected out of me.
Mayor Onion is a son-of-a-bitch, but he is providing you with an opportunity to get your greenhouse back and come hell or high water, Turnip Boy is gonna do it! Instead, Mayor Onion is giving you tasks to complete in order to get your greenhouse back. So when Turnip Boy rips up his taxes and loses his greenhouse in civil forfeiture, there’s not a long-drawn-out quest to get it back. The world map isn’t particularly big, there are maybe 30 to 40 total screens in this 2D action/adventure game. So the developers at Snoozy Kazoo didn’t try to make something bigger than they could handle, and that type of restraint is downright refreshing.Įverything in Turnip Boy seems to be done on a small scale. You can only say so much with a game, especially if that game needs to be low-budget, especially if that game has a small team, especially if that game has a smaller scope. Without trying to be more than it was actually made me respect the game more. I was able to see it for what it was, a humorous story told through an action/adventure lens. Turnip Boy isn’t looking to do anything groundbreaking though. Everything seemed to run as it was supposed to. No artistic glitches, nothing that prevented me from moving forward or playing the game. In fact, many of the jokes are made as in-world humor with either real-world or pop-culture references sprinkled in.Īs a genre piece, it’s not that great.
However, there are actually very few genre jokes. Turnip Boy falls into the Legend of Zelda style Action/Adventure genre, where there are dungeons with puzzles and you need items to complete those puzzles.
Turnip boy commits tax evasion review code#
MonsterVine was supplied with a Steam code for reviewĪ common problem with humorous games is that they make a fairly standard, milquetoast game in a genre and try to pepper in humor as an edgy or fun take on the genre. Nope, in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion you take control of Turnip Boy as he rips up various documents and pays for his crime of tax evasion. How about Final Fantasy where there are no final fantasies? It’s just nonsense that makes me wonder if the people who named the game even played the game! This is why I was so pleased to find out that Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion was about a boy turnip that ripped up his taxes and evaded paying them! I was so worried this game would be about the Bureau of Control or life on the Borderlands. Games like Infamous where you can be a good guy or Destiny where you can go around simply teabagging opponents. The one thing I really hate about video games is how arbitrary the names of video games can be.
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