There's not much to sink your teeth into with Orbo's Odyssey.
Not that this necessarily makes Orbo a bad game, I quite enjoyed my time flinging my little armless scrimblo around with tight and precise movement options. The music pushed you forward to match the extreme speeds you'd reach, the game was absolutely filled with dumb little jokes and goofy faces to make me smile. The problem is, it's difficult to come up with anything interesting to say about Orbo's Odyssey that's not already obvious just from playing the game. Orbo's Obvious? Yeah, let's go with that.
This game has insidious horror undertones, especially with the secret lore, but it's almost as if the game is asking you to find these secrets up front. These hidden areas contain something akin to SCP entries of entities that pertain to the hidden area. These entities are then fragments of a supposed God that Orbo's boss had once tried to harm by attempting to harness their power, but assuming failed. You speak to their mother, and she basically explains all of this to you, along with your fate and your predestination to repeat an endless cycle. It's like Orbo is meeting their creator and was simply speechless from their awesome existence. It's somewhat interesting, giving off the impression that this game is a mere backdrop to a much bigger world, but it's incredibly upfront with what it wants you to know. There may be more secrets to find that completely flip all of this lore on it's head, but what's in front of me here is a bit too blunt for my taste.
These horror undertones are juxtaposed to the silly antics of working in an soul crushing office setting where you and your buddy Peeb have no arms but are locked inside your boss's office due to being unable to open the door out, so you have to run around little worlds to find gears in order to build a prosthetic limb for your limbless ass. It's silly, it's enjoyable, it's incredibly fun.
And that's... really all there is to it. Of course, that's all the game really needs to be to get my Signature Spike The Stupido Big Thumbs Up. Really, there's no point in even reading any of this — just go out and play the game for yourself if you haven't. But I'm left with an almost hollow feeling, a yearn for something more with what was provided here. It's similar to the previous short but sweet 3D platformers I've gone through as of recent, but it's far more empty feeling than those titles. I'm not entirely sure of the reasons, but I'm still glad I experienced Orbo's Big Day Out.
Not that this necessarily makes Orbo a bad game, I quite enjoyed my time flinging my little armless scrimblo around with tight and precise movement options. The music pushed you forward to match the extreme speeds you'd reach, the game was absolutely filled with dumb little jokes and goofy faces to make me smile. The problem is, it's difficult to come up with anything interesting to say about Orbo's Odyssey that's not already obvious just from playing the game. Orbo's Obvious? Yeah, let's go with that.
This game has insidious horror undertones, especially with the secret lore, but it's almost as if the game is asking you to find these secrets up front. These hidden areas contain something akin to SCP entries of entities that pertain to the hidden area. These entities are then fragments of a supposed God that Orbo's boss had once tried to harm by attempting to harness their power, but assuming failed. You speak to their mother, and she basically explains all of this to you, along with your fate and your predestination to repeat an endless cycle. It's like Orbo is meeting their creator and was simply speechless from their awesome existence. It's somewhat interesting, giving off the impression that this game is a mere backdrop to a much bigger world, but it's incredibly upfront with what it wants you to know. There may be more secrets to find that completely flip all of this lore on it's head, but what's in front of me here is a bit too blunt for my taste.
These horror undertones are juxtaposed to the silly antics of working in an soul crushing office setting where you and your buddy Peeb have no arms but are locked inside your boss's office due to being unable to open the door out, so you have to run around little worlds to find gears in order to build a prosthetic limb for your limbless ass. It's silly, it's enjoyable, it's incredibly fun.
And that's... really all there is to it. Of course, that's all the game really needs to be to get my Signature Spike The Stupido Big Thumbs Up. Really, there's no point in even reading any of this — just go out and play the game for yourself if you haven't. But I'm left with an almost hollow feeling, a yearn for something more with what was provided here. It's similar to the previous short but sweet 3D platformers I've gone through as of recent, but it's far more empty feeling than those titles. I'm not entirely sure of the reasons, but I'm still glad I experienced Orbo's Big Day Out.