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![]() ![]() Your goal is to get enough Heat - power, kinda - to be strong enough to take on a really big bad. I only played it in single-player, but it's kid-friendly fun, too I haven't even mentioned that you're the combat agent for a team of sort-of-Avengers-but-animals who live on a tiny space island and are led by an owl (it's always an owl, isn't it?). Is it a bit janky? Sure is! But is it fun and imaginative and wacky and reasonably priced in a landscape of extremely expensive samey big games? You bet your sweet frog ass it is. It's mad, but I sure do wish more games were like this. Eventually you will destroy enough totems to get to a planetary boss fight, which might be against, for example, a giant ghost samurai or a floating purple hand with an eyeball in it. By destroying totemic altars orbited by floating eyeball robots, you start to re-energise the planet, so areas have grass and butterflies. ![]() You drop onto proc-gen planets overrun by a kind of magical accelerated entropy, that turns everything black and pink and grey. You also control a small frog standing on the mech. It's a sci-fi roguelike best played, I think, in 4-player online co-op. I sort of did what the Goonies do when they first find the map to One Eyed Willie's treasure, or what anyone in Pulp Fiction does when they open the briefcase: "Wooooaaaah."Ĭonsider the progress of information. When we first saw the trailer for Shoulders Of Giants, a few people on team responded with murmurings of "What the hell is this?", which increased in frequency and volume as more bizarre things appeared on screen. Shoulders Of Giants is out today on the Epic Games Store. ![]()
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