Oh, the game made it into the above average category after all.
"High on Life" is a decent game in the end.
I have to say, one thing this game is doing really really well is setting the tone for the overall experience.
I don't want to spoil the intro here, because it is awesome and genuienly refreshing, but after some shuffling around, it ends with some alien crime syndicate invading earth and enslaving humans as cattle. as they get high on them and start using and selling them as sentient drugs.
So the aliens literally get "High on Life"...
If this joke aligns with your sense of humor, then you should be able to enjoy this game. If not, well...
I have heard this game is from the creator of Rick & Morty and if you are into that show, you'd also enjoy this game. As someone who has never seen Rick & Morty, this game feels like 90s teen humor. With gross out humor and sex jokes and wordplays that reference gross out humor and sex jokes.
With meandering slang dialoge and some f-bombs here and there.
Some land, but the entire thing wears thin and gets annoying way too fast, since the humor also stays basically the same. The dialogue is usually the worst. It can be clever and funny, but characters usually take wayyy to long to get the point across, as the dialoge is... drawn out... for the sake of comedy... whatever.
It also doesn't help that "High on Life" is way longer than it has any right to be, given the concept it offers and the humor it is based around.
This is a 10 Hour long game (a lot longer if you take it slower), and it gets old at the half way point at best.
Make of that what you will.
Gameplay is fine. Textbook first persona arena shooter almost. It reminds me a little of Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal (only a lot worse). It offers some variety here and there and the down time is actually not that bad. I'd advise you to chose a higher difficulty if you are looking for a challenge though. I played on normal and am really not the greatest fps player and I breezed through it more times than not.
Also it is unfortunate that the guns sorely lack any punch.
All in all, this is still good, and a lot better than some other fps I have played. Especially military shooters (seriously, fuck those).
The vocals performances are fine, but as I have already pointed out, the actual dialogue can get very tiresome.
Rest of the music and sound design are things I failed to notice at all during my playthrough, so they have to be perfectly serviceable. Not drawing attention in either sense or direction.
What else is there to say? .. Well, I can say this for a conclusuion:
Despite the fact that "High on Life" is competently made and entertaining enough, I couldn't help walking away oddly dissatisfied after I beat it. A feeling that only got stronger the more time had passed.
I guess the game just feels cobbled together from parts that barely fit.
It is a decent game.
But that's really all there is to it.
"High on Life" is a decent game in the end.
I have to say, one thing this game is doing really really well is setting the tone for the overall experience.
I don't want to spoil the intro here, because it is awesome and genuienly refreshing, but after some shuffling around, it ends with some alien crime syndicate invading earth and enslaving humans as cattle. as they get high on them and start using and selling them as sentient drugs.
So the aliens literally get "High on Life"...
If this joke aligns with your sense of humor, then you should be able to enjoy this game. If not, well...
I have heard this game is from the creator of Rick & Morty and if you are into that show, you'd also enjoy this game. As someone who has never seen Rick & Morty, this game feels like 90s teen humor. With gross out humor and sex jokes and wordplays that reference gross out humor and sex jokes.
With meandering slang dialoge and some f-bombs here and there.
Some land, but the entire thing wears thin and gets annoying way too fast, since the humor also stays basically the same. The dialogue is usually the worst. It can be clever and funny, but characters usually take wayyy to long to get the point across, as the dialoge is... drawn out... for the sake of comedy... whatever.
It also doesn't help that "High on Life" is way longer than it has any right to be, given the concept it offers and the humor it is based around.
This is a 10 Hour long game (a lot longer if you take it slower), and it gets old at the half way point at best.
Make of that what you will.
Gameplay is fine. Textbook first persona arena shooter almost. It reminds me a little of Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal (only a lot worse). It offers some variety here and there and the down time is actually not that bad. I'd advise you to chose a higher difficulty if you are looking for a challenge though. I played on normal and am really not the greatest fps player and I breezed through it more times than not.
Also it is unfortunate that the guns sorely lack any punch.
All in all, this is still good, and a lot better than some other fps I have played. Especially military shooters (seriously, fuck those).
The vocals performances are fine, but as I have already pointed out, the actual dialogue can get very tiresome.
Rest of the music and sound design are things I failed to notice at all during my playthrough, so they have to be perfectly serviceable. Not drawing attention in either sense or direction.
What else is there to say? .. Well, I can say this for a conclusuion:
Despite the fact that "High on Life" is competently made and entertaining enough, I couldn't help walking away oddly dissatisfied after I beat it. A feeling that only got stronger the more time had passed.
I guess the game just feels cobbled together from parts that barely fit.
It is a decent game.
But that's really all there is to it.