Readers could bear in mind how a lot I favored 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 primary character is a turnip. And likewise he tears up any paperwork handed to him. Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution follows instantly on from his Tax Evasion, and it isn’t fairly as humorous or as centered, however it’s additionally a completely completely different style of recreation, and I’ve an enormous quantity respect for that.
It isn’t going to be unrecogniseable should you performed and loved Tax Evasion – it nonetheless has the identical superb character artwork, largely the identical forged, and the identical sense of humour – however Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution is an motion roguelite. Having found his identification 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 recreation) to, you recognize, rob the financial institution. A number of instances, 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 place the cash again into upgrades and instruments that you must open up new areas of the financial institution.
Not solely will Turnip Boy want, for instance, boots to stroll by means of the poisonous ooze close to the again of the financial institution, and a torch to gentle his approach, it is also helpful to get C4 early on so you possibly can blow open safes. Such objects will be sourced from the darkish internet, whereas a hench cyborg tomato will offer you boosts to your well being, carrying capcity, harm, the time you possibly can spend within the financial institution, and likewise an AOE bag of milk that explodes (and apologises) if you’re hit by an enemy.
By this level you may already know should 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 tougher parodying a roguelike than an RPG. Lots of the greatest yuks are predicated on you having performed the unique Turnip Boy recreation. When somebody provides you a little bit of paper this time, it’s laminated; “They’ve discovered”, you’re instructed. However there may be, to be fully truthful, a excessive ground on how a lot I am going to get pleasure from Turnip Boy. The idea is simply inherently humorous, particularly if you add Turnip Boy’s restricted however extraordinarily communicative suite of facial expressions. The fuzz are known 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 actually a potato known as Sergeant Yeehaw.
Although the halls are filled with bell pepper guards, the bosses are the place your fight expertise are put to the check. It isn’t extremely deep, however fight is relentlessly cheerful, and does require some pre-planning in your half. Turnip Boy can equip two weapons directly, the bottom two being a pistol and his picket sword. You may choose up weirder and higher weapons – a cactus that shoots spines, an enormous scythe, an vitality sword – however you possibly can’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 instant future. If you happen to survive your financial institution theft, you retain no matter weapons you could have on you, and might commerce within the unique ones towards weapon analysis. You may wish to preserve the enormous fish you discovered, however buying and selling it in will unlock the shotgun as a beginning weapon. Weapons are distinct sufficient in velocity, harm and unfold that you will have favourites, however the boss fights aren’t sophisticated Soulsian affairs, and largely it’s going to 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, will be decreased to “run round urgent assault”.
There’s one boss in every nook of the primary ground of the financial institution, every in a themed space of escalating problem and entertaining theme. Whenever you run into the potato sergeant he is the toughest encounter you have had, so you come to robbing the financial institution till you are stronger and higher. Then you definately beat him, return to robbing till you have the funds 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 predominant ground, 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 possibly can retailer weapons for later runs, a DJ who appears like a Darkish Souls bonfire, and so forth. On many of those flooring you may discover characters who both provide you with missions or are the mission goal ultimately, e.g. workplace employee who needs signed divorce papers from her husband elsewhere within the financial institution.
So you possibly can think about the way it goes. You discover the maritally-disadvantaged lime girl on an workplace ground 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 a substitute 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 form of factor. These aspect missions are of variable appeal, however even there you may discover some consideration to element that perhaps a special studio would not be arsed with. Whenever you provide the pet rocks, they seem in his room, leaping across the ground.
It does lack the main focus 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 does not outstay its welcome. You may most likely full the sport in about 8 hours, which is a perfect runtime should 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 to rob the financial institution, as you can also 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, however it’s a superb model of that, and it does way more with its story and characters than you may anticipate. Turnip Boy Robs A Financial institution absolutely commits to the bit, does not really feel the necessity to clarify itself, and it is having enjoyable – all issues which are 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 recreation, however I nonetheless hope there are extra video games on this world which are all a bit completely different, each single time.
