A very fun audio and visual experience.

As a big sound enjoyer, my favorite part of the game was when I would do something and then a loud sound would play, almost emphasizing the fact that I just did something. Not many games do this! Or maybe my favorite part was when the 30 seconds of sporadic dissonant instruments would suddenly turn into 5 seconds of almost cohesive music, often times brought upon me doing something :O.

I will admit that by the 3rd album the steam from the first two albums was starting to run low for me and the background brain chatter, that is almost standard for a human of the modern era, began to creep it's way back in. I was forgetting my Ape roots.

But the game was able to clutch it up by the end of the 4th album, where I escaped with other mistreated caged animals and was treated to probably the craziest credits song I've ever heard in a video game. I loved that part and listened to it for longer than I'd like to admit.

Overall, it's a real ape experience and you probably won't find a better ape experience out there. The Donkey Kong Country trilogy got nothing on Ape Out. You could play 4000 hours of Winston in Top 500 and that wouldn't even compare to the angry beast I became every time I heard a loud cymbal crash.

Reviewed on Jan 18, 2024


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