Earth Must Die

I usually don't bother writting reviews, but this game is an exception. The humor was crude, the 'puzzles' overly simple and might as well not have been there. The story was so/so, but the ending just destroyed it for me. Complete waste of time. The VO was good and it looks fine if you like the cartoon aesthetic. The music is also fine, but also nothing really noteworthy.

I really, really wanted to like this game, as a huge fan both of the comedians voicing it and of the point and click adventure game genre. But I can't bring myself to recommend this game. The premise is fun in theory but the writing just didn't land for me. (It's a bit of a gamble making the main character wholly unlikeable - when the humour doesn't work it makes the experience a bit grating.) The puzzles flip back and forth between too simple and downright frustrating ([spoiler]The Snake Pit[/spoiler] being a particular low point). The artwork is great, but beyond that I struggled with motivation to continue. A pity.

This was so much fun to play. I could have been waaayy more chaotic with my choices, but that just means a second playthrough in future. Twist of an ending. A lot of tongue in cheek perspectives. Loved it.

It's a shame to waste all this art and voice acting, because the gameplay and story simply aren't very good. The puzzles are janky and stilted, and often depend on weird timing gimmicks that just don't work when the game controls so clumsily. Combined with a story that leaves us no one to root for, I unfortunately can't recommend anyone play this game.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with this game, but it feels at best .. unfinished. Not sure if that's what the low price is meant to reflect? Anyway. As a fan of point-and-click games, the controls were the first unpleasant surprise. Then, there's the definite lack of rhythm, animations, and proper transitions between anything, to the point where some cutscenes look like stiff rehearsals / become downright uncanny. I don't usually mind this too much, but the cartoon style definitely shifts expectations in this regard. Finally, add to that the lack of interactive elements and puzzles - I won't comment on the rest, as that's more a matter of preference - and you get a game that I can only stand to play for 15 minutes every few days.

It's a game ever. I'm not familiar with any of the writers or staff but apparently they're pretty well known, so not sure how this feels like "an episode of that adult swim show you randomly remembered in your head that got cancelled after one season but now you watched an episode and understand why." It's dragged out with a lot of humor being maybe a chuckle at best and a decent amount being gross out or random cursing. Jokes at the beginning were pretty nice but after a while it devolves into nonstop pop culture references and how stupid the main character is. The acting is alright, but nobody's really giving a particularly fantastic delivery of anything. There's some emphasis when they have to do vocal ticks to make a joke work, but nothings really... charming. Ben Starr is here with a voice filter on the most generic bad guy dialogue you've ever heard, what a waste. The story is, again, like an adult swim show episode where the punchline is everybody is a loser and sucks. It's just not 22 minutes and more like 5 hours. Dreadful and unsatisfying compared to how gripping this genre can be. There's a ton of lore to optionally catch up on which shows they do care a lot about the universe, but the main plot is a slog that makes the entire experience meaningless by the end. The main character is simply the least interesting and most annoying person in the game which is a problem when they're your main character. I never feel like the game goes far enough for him being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ either with most of the despicable acts being a "well that escalated quickly" or got out of hand type thing rather than being intentional. Nothing is "fun" about seeing his journey for greed and power. It's loose feeling. The pacing feels pretty dreadful as its literally a series of inconveniences that stop the next plot point from happening that the characters will complain about constantly. The puzzles seem straight forward at first, but there's not actually that many hints to really important parts and there's often a ton of filler options. For example, you need to switch a table to a kitchen and then use the toaster three times in a row to set something on fire when you also have to switch the table to a garage to spray oil onto a background that you change into clothes, but there's four options for the table and four options for the background so it's just screwing around until you see these interact at all and even then nothing indicates you can use the toaster repeatedly and no other puzzle in the entire game even uses something repeatedly like that. Puzzles especially in the second half rely on a lot of timing gimmicks which are incredibly hard to discern with some being tighter than others, and nothing feels rewarding about figuring these out. It's a lot of "what? that works like that?" Or asking your bot to move something when there's nothing that would give you the idea to move them. Music wasn't really noticeable. Can't really associate any one to a story beat or level because the pacing was that bad. Art style is really charming and the best selling point, love the diversity in environments and character shapes. Even regular human people are all really distinct between themselves. There's a lot of weird alien races that blend together believably. Overall, I just wanted to push through it so I could delete the 32 gb off of my hard drive. It kept losing more and more steam.

The writing is pretty funny at most times, and the puzzles are good... MOST TIMES. The protag won't touch anything, making the point n' click unique, but as the puzzles get more complex, you can see the flaws, specially for timed based puzzles. The games "Milkapedia" systems forces you to "read" entries to solve puzzles, but just opening the entry is enough. In the end, it's an overall good experience, even though I did not like the ending.

I tried hard to like this game, but it's got too many problems. The scaling of the art assets looks quite bad at times. The humour is hit and miss. And it doesn't help that the timing is often off, with lines delivered with a slight delay spoiling the jokes. Trying to play over Steam Link with a controller was clunky and not worth the bother.

This is a playable critique of post-Brexit Britain, the US, and demcratic backsliding in Europe and beyond under 21st century technofascism, aided and abetted by brainwashing media empires, technobajillionaires, depraved functionaries, servile apparatchiks and, well, the proles, who are always up for another round of: "this guy says it like it is!" My problem is that the satire often falls flat, and the main character does not undergo any character development, which is definitely something the game hinted at, thanks to Milky's insistence at, maybe, just maybe, reforming the Ascendancy. But in the end, the writers must have decided that a happy end shall not be had. Earth does indeed die. This makes the game punk, I suppose, in the very facile, "no future" kind of way that is egregiously irresponsible, given the fact of what we are up against, IRL. Which is fine. It's a vision for what an anarchic comedy game can aspire to. Is the actual critique that people who think they are the Main Protagonists who should be on the chopping block first? Or that robots that nurse our egos are working for the downfall of the human race? I mean, "No More Robots" sure sounds like a dead simple slogan. Ultimately, it would have made for a better game if VValak did go on a journey that changed his POV and governance practices. Because it sure as hell looks like we won't have the same thing here on actual Earth unless unite the planet. Under human, non-machine rule. Democratically controlled, of course. Whatever that democracy might look for eight billion people...

[h2]非常之搞笑[/h2] 在一个想象力夸张的外星世界，尖锐辛辣地讲述人类社会的黑色幽默。得益于架空的外星场景，想象力和恶趣味得到了充分的释放，即使以一个地狱笑话老吃家的角度，我也被其中逆天无底线段子多次逗得大为爆笑。作为喜剧游戏，在搞笑这一块毫无疑问可以打满分。另一方面，游戏的谜题指引比玩过的谜题游戏都要直观，很多时候不需要攻略也知道该做什么，更加好评！