![]() ![]() The simple act of walking, for example, requires one to lift a tentacle with a button press, thrust it forward, then lift the other and repeat the process. To move or interact with the world, one must take direct control of Octodad’s tentacles, thus taking indirect control of Octodad himself. With demented physics and controls reminiscent of the delightfully frustrating QWOP, the player must attempt to live a normal life in a most abnormal fashion. That said, it is pretty funny to watch the undercover cephalopod throw bottles around.įor those unfamiliar with the original Octodad, the premise is simple – as the titular tentacled father, you must pass as human while dealing with the awkward movements of a landbound sea creature. If indeed the world sees Octodad as human, at least while he’s wearing a suit, then the smiling obliviousness of his family takes on the appearance of desperate denial, the panicked Stepford grinning of Arthur “Trinity Killer” Mitchell’s enthralled wife and kids. On the surface, it’s a cute concept, reminiscent of The Animaniacs‘ Chicken Boo character, and we’re expected to laugh at the inexplicable lack of suspicion from Octodad’s societal peers.īut there’s something inherently disturbing about a family witnessing a husband and father staggering uncontrollably about the house, smashing furniture, smacking his children in the head, and burbling incoherently like a drunk, violent monster. Here, an octopus dons a suit and attempts to pass itself off as a human man, having gotten itself married and somehow siring children. Steam Workshop support opens up the possibility of user-made sandbox levels, and there are some nice extras in the game that give you a reason to do more than just complete objective after objective.It’s hard not to see something inherently dark in the world of Octodad. It never progresses very far beyond the basic set-up, though, so once you get the hang of it you've seen the gimmick the game has to offer. The story takes Octodad to a variety of locations that shake the main formula up a little, introducing mini-games and extremely tricky objects to climb your way around. Certain sections of the game require you to be even more stealthy, but overall Octodad exists to create a fun arcade-style tension between "ha ha you can't do that without opposable thumbs" and "tentacles are pretty useful". Try not to flop around, bang into too many things, hit people with objects in your tentacles, or flatten yourself into a football-sized lump and crawl through a crack in the wall. If someone is watching you, as indicated by a dotted line, you have to play it cool. It's sort of like a stealth meter in Thief, though far more forgiving. Makes you realize how awesome skeletons are.Ī meter at the bottom of the screen tracks how conspicuous you are. Easy enough until you wobble yourself out there and try to actually do it. Some of the earliest tasks are as simple as making a cup of coffee or mowing the lawn. ![]() You control each of these limbs individually, picking them up, waving them in the air, and setting them down so you can walk and carry objects just like a regular person. Ocotdad's tentacles are bundled together to form limbs. With the campy storyline moving forward with each objective, complete with a salivating chef who is bent on unmasking our protagonist, Octodad proceeds with a series of mundane quests that illustrate just how difficult it is living in a world built by air-loving vertebrates. And he's going to keep it that way, even if his wife makes everyone go to the aquarium, a place no land-dwelling octopus would ever want to be. Nobody seems to notice he's actually an octopus. For Octodad himself, though, things are a bit more difficult. Everybody's happy and the only problems they encounter are when the grocery store is low on frozen pizza. Octodad is set in a cheery world not unlike sitcoms from the 1950s. But how clever does an octopus have to be to live on land? To wear a suit? To have a wife and be a father to two children? It's some clever hoodwinking, that's for sure, and in Octodad: Dadliest Catch, you get to participate in the deception! Their curious brains, slimy tentacles and squishable bodies let them get into all sorts of mischief under the sea. We all know how smart octopodes (that's right, we're being pedantic) can be. ![]()
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