Earth Must Die

It's a dark comedy satire point and click adventure game. That being said, its not funny. The satire is either too on the nose or too over the top to be clever. The jokes revolve purely around either: 1) Profanity 2) Sex 3) LolRandom 4) Gore It's not that those four things can't be funny, in fact, they usually are. But this game tries so hard to make you laugh that it just feels... aged? Like this would maybe be funny to a middle schooler in 2016. It can't decide if it wants to be gross-out funny, just gross, or just funny, so it falls short on everything and feels like hearing a juvenile make a sex joke. It's just gross and weird. The story is nonsensical and underwhelming. The only character who isn't over the top annoying is the companion, Milkie, and the devs knew that when they made you do the ending. Which is a really, really bad ending too. The art is almost fun, but the aspect ratios and stretching and, again, grotesqueness of it make it just fall short. Some characters are fun and stylized like a 90s cartoon, most are just downright ugly, and have no thought behind them as their animations clearly display. There are numerous issues with asset layering throughout the gam…

From a technical standpoint: It runs well, stable, apart from the occasioan slowdowns, where I just restart the game... but that is rare. Graphics: 10/10. Beautiful game. Awesome artstyle. Controls: Wonky. 90% mouse only, and for some weird reason you need WASD to move around. This is very stupid. I assume some kinda price we had to pay to get controller support and console ports? I dunno. Still... kinda dumb. Story: Rude, interesing, surprising, and a... bit weird ending, but I can accept it. I'm not a big fan of the end... has the same issue with Deponia. But again, it's an artistic decision, and I'm not the artist :) Puzzles: Kinda unoriginal sometimes, and they lack logic many times. Meh... Voice-acting: 10/10. A masterpiece. Other pros: -blood :D -Good humor. Really Other cons: -unskippable crap at the beginning. Overall: 7/10 This won't redefine the genre, but it's fun once. Actually decisions have consequences, gives it a bit more replayability. But sadly not other endings...

for all the talent that went into this game..... its weak sauce never before have i played a game were i knew so many of the names that went into it and thought they were funny people. from watching every single season of taskmaster from around the world that is in English and 5 seasons that are not with subtitles - slow move speed - cant move with mouse - cant move when people are talking to you + can skip text if you finish reading before they finish talking or started the same text loop again 2/10

Its okay game. Probably get it on sale. Be prepare for some bugs - voice over disappeared completely and i had to restart - while talking to an npc i couldn't exit the conversation the leave conversation button disappeared. The story is mediocre. Good art style, voice over and overall dialog writing is fine. P.s. Prepare your diskspace :) I was very surprised to see that it takes ~35GB

All this game has going for it is a star line up of voice actors. The satire that infuses every aspect of the game is of the lowest caliber and rarely humorous. Good satire should make you think and reflect, this is just using stereotypes and surface level mocking to try (and fail) at getting a laugh. On top of that the constant sexual or scatological jokes are annoying and overdone. I don't mind those kind of jokes inherently, but a third of the games humor is based on it. The control scheme is also a hot mess. half the time clicking on the dots doesn't work, which is frustrating for timed puzzles. Characters move at the speed of molasses in winter and there is no way to pre-position them in many cases. All main character movement is done with WASD, which feels wrong in a point and click and breaks the flow of the game. Even in the puzzles the game falls flat. Many times you have to read through pages of lore to get a specific clue to unlock a dialogue option. While I do enjoy lore and worldbuilding, most of this information would have been much better delivered through NPC dialogue or other "show not tell" sources. In fact the few times that you need "detailed" information tha…

The pointer is so over the top it takes away from game play. It's awkward to wield around when directing a character with the pointy hand. Fun voice actors and animation. Game play is good, but again it's hard to get used to that black/pink cursor trail.