Please just shut up.

I know there are fans of this stuff. If you like Rick and Morty or anything this creator Justin Roiland has done, skip to the next chapter and buy this game, this review isn’t for you. For everyone else, this is one of the most annoying games I’ve played. There’s a style of comedy that’s grown in popularity where people just shotgun jokes out over and over without letting the audience breathe and everything is supposed to be funny. It can work, but most of the time almost nothing is funny and the overacting, and desperation to make something work makes it painful.

High on Life is extremely painful in this respect. It’s just trying too hard with the humor, it’s trying to constantly tell jokes. It’s no longer subverting expectations, because everything is a joke, and that desperation is clear when the game just keeps playing voice lines at you so often that they start cutting each other off or the lines get clipped when you move between areas and get another one right away.

You can mute the non-story-based comments by the enemies and guns, but then you’re left with a rather average shooter because what’s supposed to be fun is stabbing someone and having your knife brag about it…. But it doesn’t work either way.

Remember when I said if you’re a fan of the creator skip to the next chapter and just buy the game… well if you’re still here you didn’t follow instructions, or aren’t a fan of his work. This is a hard skip. No freaking thank you. I want my time back.

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