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| New game! |
I never played a Joe Richardson game before. Since his last game
Death of the Reprobate came out last year (November '24), the adventure game community already started laughing with the anticipation of laughing with everything the game would have to offer. Instead of playing it immediately like everyone else seemed to have done, I decided to travel back in time (not literally) and play through ALL of Joe Richardson's games available on Steam, starting with
The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything.
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| Not the most dashing main character... |
After playing for 9 minutes, I got tired of it. I knew the
graphic style and character designs would need some getting used to. And
yes, that was the case. Also, stupid me got "stuck" by not realizing
the screen could sidescroll. So after I don't know how much time
and other games went by, I decided to return and lo and behold, the game
actually grew on me. I started to appreciate the social, political,
anthropological, philosophical satire -- and of course the plain silliness of
it all. Though is it really silly? I think a part of me really thinks
it's brilliant.
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| Guy's got some dance moves... |
So you play a guy on an island, you find old
rocket parts and you decide to engage everyone to build it up again. A
couple of other islanders grab leadership, however, but don't really
succeed in getting anywhere with society since they take turns in being
elected and spend all their time nullifying all progress of their
predecessor; basically the way actual politicians conduct their business
today.
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| These storybook segments stole the show! |
The game is very short, I finished it in 97 minutes. It
has some inventory puzzles, some dialogue puzzles, some main character
trickery onto non-playable characters. It doesn't have a manual save
function but autosaves whenever you make some progress. Its cutscenes
are storybook-style text and pictures that are quite fun to read. Joe
Richardson truly is a funny guy who gets his message across.
So in the end, not a bad game at all, and I'm looking forward to the next one,
Four Last Things...
You can find The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything on Steam.
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