Thrashing around too much or destroying too much scenery will cause humans to become suspicious of you-nevermind that your head is yellow and your limbs have suction cups attached to them, of course. You'll be tasked with simple goals like picking up objects, opening doors, putting on clothes, and the like. You quickly learn Octodad's limb control system, which requires you to independently control his legs and his right arm through careful control stick/mouse movements. This opening level perfectly establishes the basics of everything that comes afterward. The game opens with Octodad frantically trying to prepare for his wedding. Unfortunately, the game doesn't quite stick the landing, as its last act gets bogged down by irritating objectives while trying to wrap up the character's arc a bit too hastily.īut before you get there, there's a lot of goofy fun to be had with Dadliest Catch's early goings. For much of Dadliest Catch's playtime, everything works in a kind of chaotic harmony, creating comedy out of every day situations that are, unsurprisingly, ludicrously challenging for a cephalopod in a suit. However, while that game was more like an elongated cartoon sketch, Dadliest Catch fleshes out the betentacled hero's back story while adding several more ridiculous situations and objectives for the player to engage in. Of course, this premise was initially established in 2010's Octodad, a student-developed IGF entry which is still available free of cost on the Octodad website. He's like most other dads, except for the part where he's an octopus. Which is no small challenge given that his limbs flail and crash into just about everything as he tries to make his squishy body into something resembling a human form. Despite very obviously being an octopus, nobody-save but for an enraged, indeterminately foreign-sounding chef-has a clue about this, allowing Octodad to go about his daily life. In it, you are Octodad, an octopus masquerading as the patriarch of a nuclear human family. Octodad: Dadliest Catch has one of the great comic premises ever attempted in video games.
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