A grand 200 hour adventure through a serious world as you uncover the mystery around the worlds problems and work valliantly to solve them…. Is not what this game is about.
You’ll find none of that serious shit here, this game is all about making fun of the game you’d expect this game to be, and it is a fuckin blast! I went into this game blind after seeing the title on the Humble Choice last month, and honestly, I’d recommend that experience to anyone else, because this is one of the most unexpectedly hilarious games I’ve ever played, but if I’ve not convinced you, read on for the normal gameplay and tone review.
You play as Sir Whoopass, delivering a can of ass whoop on any bad guys that dare to step in your way, with your selection of silly weapons, magic wands that are basically just guns, big fuck-off swords, and a Ratchet and Clank-ass Chicken gun.
If you’ve not been able to tell from my tone, Sir Whoopass is a parody deconstruction of adventure RPG games like Skyrim, riffing on almost every single trope in the genre, and a narrator telling your story who doesn’t even begin to try and hide from that fact. From the very first cutscene, the game’s tone is set in stone. It’s an extremely heavy parody, but it works really well.
In terms of gameplay, while you do have a main quest to follow, after the tutorial dungeon, you’re pretty much left to your own devices, all the enemies spawn around your level throughout the entire world, so you’re not really gonna be gated from anything, and the few big monsters like the sand-worms and tree-ents that you might stumble into are easy enough to run away from, and exploring will be rewarded by chests containing money, weapon crystals, and most importantly, new hats!
The weapons are gated by level requirements, as well as requiring crystals to purchase from the Blackschmidt, but every weapon you do get feels like a significant power boost. Genuinely, going from the level 6 staff to the level 8 staff turned some 4 minute fights into 4 second fights, it’s insane. The entire game takes place over the span of like, 10 levels, so it’s a relatively short experience, you can probably finish it in a weekend.
Lastly, this game has multiplayer, so you can play with your squad of Borderlands buddies to have a bit of a hack and slash type comedy adventure instead of the usual shooty shooty bang bang comedy adventures. There is even a Pimp My Protagonist, which lets you change your outfit. And let me tell you, the visuals of finishing one of the mini dungeons and being rewarded with a pair of deal with it glasses, and sticking them on a knight wearing a full leather gimp suit had me cackling close to passing out for some reason.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240590 £13.49
Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sir-whoopass-immortal-death £13.49
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