Launched by surprise in Epic Games Store, the first Sludge Life is one of the greatest rarities that the video game world has given us. One of those titles that, like Pony Island or Inscription, try to go a step further when it comes to redefining what we all have in mind when we stand before a controller.
It is, to look for the most bizarre simile that can come to mind, what Holy Motors was for the world of cinema in video game format. A tremendous pot trip capable of breaking all possible schemes while bringing you closer to the concept of experience than to the definition of the medium that you always take for normalized.
Sludge Life 2, another indescribable madness
Anyone who walked those streets bathed in mud will be able to venture with relative ease what Sludge Life 2 has prepared. Another city, other characters and another adventure that is born with no apparent objective and that, during the hour of play that I have been able to access, once again replicates each of the strong and weak points that, without making too much noise, then exalted the original work.
As there, the idea of Sludge Life 2 part of planting yourself in an open world without too many clues about what to do. Here the adventure begins with the search for an out-of-date rapper who has disappeared from the city, but the first mistake you could make as a newbie to the saga is giving it more importance than it should.
This is not about following arrows or chasing a specific objective, but about losing yourself in their world, letting yourself be carried away by all the crazy things that characters, situations and settings have prepared for you. One of those titles where the only thing that should go through your head is, like in the movie Leos Caraxlet yourself go
Talk to its inhabitants, immerse yourself in the situation in which they live, go from the easy joke to the phrase that can throw some clue about what you are looking for at that moment and, in short, enjoy an exploration that will go from making you jump between balconies to get objects with which to access a site that previously seemed impenetrable.
Same virtues, identical defects
I don’t know how many endings they will have pulled out of their sleeve this time or to what extent their story will end up twisting, but for better and for worse, Sludge Life 2 it is seen quickly that it is a fairly continuous game with its idea.
Climbing to places where you can paint graffiti and get special objects that serve as a tool in the purest metroidvania style will, in all probability, be what will push you to travel from one area to another while chatting with people and tasting -or enduring – a humor that because of the trickiness of his style, personally he has never finished fitting me.
It is a pity that the criticisms of their control, a toothache that adds to the need to be especially precise when facing reaching a platform, have not pushed them to give a return to how uncomfortable most of them are. times, but beyond the frustration of having to repeat some jumps, it is clear that Sludge Life 2 It doesn’t matter too much either.
In any case, we are not coming to that here, but it is a problem with which you will have to swallow to be able to enjoy everything else, especially the experience of exploring its surreal world of anthropomorphic animals and stoner children that as soon as you throw a acid criticism of our current society how he drops a joke about small penises in your face.
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