Thursday, July 11, 2024

Bum Simulator

Bum Simulator is not what I expected (though if I were British I might have been more confused.  I thought it would be a survival homeless simulator ... which would in hindsight be kind of horrible.

Instead you and your shopping cart companion are castoff experiments from an Evilcorp, you are a homeless man who has half a brain and the power to control pigeons, and your companion is a wisecracking shopping cart with googly eyes.  Graphics are basic and repetitive, like an early PS3 - but not to the point of being too distracting.

The world is silly in that way, but follows a lot of the similar premises as GTA and the like -- the main story mission is to help your buddy get his body back and you to get your other half a brain I assume, but the map has an Ubi number of side missions that are "race to this area", "put 5 bodies into this bin", "be rude and avoid police", "shoot targets".  

I would have toughed it to the end for the amusement, but some missions are locked behind upgrades that you are forced to do to your base -- which means you have to collect resources to create smelteries, and collect wood and metal to smelt ingots, and craft metal plates from ingots to upgrade pigeon coops, etc.  It's not a paywall, it's a timewall/grindwall - meanwhile rival gangs come to destroy your stuff so you have to run back and defend your upgrades whenever you are raided.





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