Readers could bear in mind how a lot I appreciated Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, principally due to how humorous it was. It was an clever and considerably loving tackle a Zelda-y RPG – a small city hero will get a sword and goes on a rampage preventing some bosses – besides the principle character is a turnip. And in addition he tears up any paperwork handed to him. Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution follows straight on from his Tax Evasion, and it isn’t fairly as humorous or as centered, but it surely’s additionally a completely totally different style of sport, and I’ve an enormous quantity respect for that.
It is not going to be unrecogniseable in case you performed and loved Tax Evasion – it nonetheless has the identical superb character artwork, largely the identical solid, and the identical sense of humour – however Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution is an motion roguelite. Having found his id because the eldest son and inheritor of the crime boss Don Turnipchino, Turnipchino II is allied with the Pickled Gang (a gang of pickles he met on the finish of the final sport) to, you already know, rob the financial institution. A number of occasions, which is the place the roguelitery is available in. Everytime you arrive on the financial institution, you solely have a couple of minutes to boost hell earlier than SWAT groups of the fuzz arrive. If you happen to die, your take house is smaller, so it is good to get whereas the getting is sweet, as you set the cash again into upgrades and instruments it’s worthwhile to open up new areas of the financial institution.
Not solely will Turnip Boy want, for instance, boots to stroll via the poisonous ooze close to the again of the financial institution, and a torch to mild his means, it is also helpful to get C4 early on so you’ll be able to blow open safes. Such gadgets may be sourced from the darkish net, whereas a hench cyborg tomato will give you boosts to your well being, carrying capcity, harm, the time you’ll be able to spend within the financial institution, and likewise an AOE bag of milk that explodes (and apologises) while you’re hit by an enemy.
By this level you will already know in case you’ll benefit from the tone of Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution. I do! The jokes aren’t fairly as quite a few or clearly primarily based on style tropes, however I suppose it is more durable parodying a roguelike than an RPG. Most of the greatest yuks are predicated on you having performed the unique Turnip Boy sport. When somebody provides you a little bit of paper this time, it’s laminated; “They’ve realized”, you might be informed. However there’s, to be fully honest, a excessive flooring on how a lot I am going to take pleasure in Turnip Boy. The idea is simply inherently humorous, particularly while you add Turnip Boy’s restricted however extraordinarily communicative suite of facial expressions. The fuzz are referred to as the fuzz as a result of the cops are largely peaches. Come on. It’d take a chilly coronary heart certainly to not crack a smile at Turnip Boy having a boss struggle with an enormous mutant toffee apple, or a head of safety who’s in actual fact a potato referred to as Sergeant Yeehaw.
Although the halls are stuffed with bell pepper guards, the bosses are the place your fight abilities are put to the take a look at. It is not extremely deep, however fight is relentlessly cheerful, and does require some pre-planning in your half. Turnip Boy can equip two weapons without delay, the bottom two being a pistol and his wood sword. You’ll be able to choose up weirder and higher weapons – a cactus that shoots spines, a large scythe, an vitality sword – however you’ll be able to’t pack something into your stock for later. So each time you come throughout a brand new weapon it’s a must to take into consideration what kind of fights you are going to have within the quick future. If you happen to survive your financial institution theft, you retain no matter weapons you might have on you, and may commerce within the unique ones in opposition to weapon analysis. You may wish to preserve the large fish you discovered, however buying and selling it in will unlock the shotgun as a beginning weapon. Weapons are distinct sufficient in pace, harm and unfold that you will have favourites, however the boss fights aren’t sophisticated Soulsian affairs, and largely it will solely take you a few makes an attempt to nail the bullet hell of all of it. Most techniques, when you study the boss patterns, may be decreased to “run round urgent assault”.
There’s one boss in every nook of the principle flooring of the financial institution, every in a themed space of escalating issue and entertaining theme. Once you run into the potato sergeant he is the toughest encounter you’ve got had, so you come to robbing the financial institution till you are stronger and higher. You then beat him, return to robbing till you manage to pay for to purchase a cardboard field, use the field to get entry to the toffee apple, and repeat that course of. It will get a bit grindy, however Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution makes an effort to maintain issues recent by popping lifts round that primary flooring, and randomising the place they take you. There are places of work, a satanic thunderdome, a mushroom-based cult, a bathe locker room the place you’ll be able to retailer weapons for later runs, a DJ who seems like a Darkish Souls bonfire, and so forth. On many of those flooring you will discover characters who both provide you with missions or are the mission goal in a roundabout way, e.g. workplace employee who needs signed divorce papers from her husband elsewhere within the financial institution.
So you’ll be able to think about the way it goes. You discover the maritally-disadvantaged lime lady on an workplace flooring and, after cracking all of the safes round her, discover her husband and shake that sucker down for the papers. However then it’s a must to cheese it ‘cos the fuzz are coming – however the subsequent time you rob the financial institution, not one of the lifts go to her workplace. As an alternative you discover one lonely man who needs a lot of pet rocks, most of that are gathered by doing favours for different folks. A goblin needs a bodypillow, that type of factor. These facet missions are of variable attraction, however even there you will discover some consideration to element that possibly a unique studio would not be arsed with. Once you provide the pet rocks, they seem in his room, leaping across the flooring.
It does lack the main target I loved in Tax Evasion, however maybe I identical to roguelites lower than I do RPGs. And although it is in peril of getting tiresome regardless of the range, Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution would not outstay its welcome. You’ll be able to most likely full the sport in about 8 hours, which is a perfect runtime in case you ask me, and is greater than sufficient time to make sufficient cash to get all of the upgrades after which some. The sport additionally advantages from the extraordinarily quick size of every try and rob the financial institution, as you may make a whole lot of progress in about half an hour, which is about ten robberies, give or take.
So it undoubtedly leans into the lite in roguelite, but it surely’s a great model of that, and it does rather more with its story and characters than you may anticipate. Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution absolutely commits to the bit, would not really feel the necessity to clarify itself, and it is having enjoyable – all issues which can be large ticks. I think it isn’t tremendous welcoming to a participant who is not already a Turnip Boy fan, and, certainly, it is my second favorite Turnip Boy sport, however I nonetheless hope there are extra video games on this world which can be all a bit totally different, each single time.
