Under this paragraph is my full assessment of Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey—a brand new comedic open-world motion recreation out now on Steam and playable on Steam Deck. And it’s assessment. It does what you count on. However I can prevent a while proper now. In case you are a fan of The Simpsons: Hit and Run, then it’s best to play Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey. It’s a excellent recreation of that foolish open-world GTA-like collecton-a-thon expertise, simply with out Homer and Springfield. Anyway, for everybody nonetheless studying, right here’s the assessment.
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey tells the traditional story of a wierd teenager who skips out on summer time college whereas his household is away on trip to give attention to his dream of driving a automobile into house. That’s the essential premise of Turbo Journey. You might be Tiny Terry and after mendacity to get a job with a taxi firm, you get a automobile. It’s now your job to go round accumulating junk and money that will help you improve your taxi cab and make it go sooner and sooner. When you improve all of it the way in which, you may drive it up a large constructing and into house. Most likely. That’s the plan, not less than. And that’s your aim in Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey.
Nevertheless, to get all of the junk and money wanted to max out your taxi and attain outer house, you’ll must discover a delightfully colourful and zany open-world stuffed with characters to assist and collectibles to search out. Immediately, Turbo Journey’s cartoon visuals impressed me. Even on a Steam Deck, the sport appears marvelous, like a trippy, vivid Saturday morning cartoon directed by Bizarre Al.
Every character I met on this odd world was a misshapen lump of vivid coloration and limbs. Even higher, all of them made me giggle, actually because they didn’t know tips on how to react to Tiny Terry. His weird antics and dedication to being the weirdest one within the room result in a few of the finest awkward pauses I’ve ever skilled in a online game.
I additionally appreciated that, for as bizarre and wild as Turbo Journey will get, it by no means feels prefer it’s doing issues simply to be random. It nonetheless seems like a (considerably) actual world with real individuals dwelling in it. Even Terry has his moments of real progress and care. This all helps the sport keep away from the entice of being a set of web memes and unhealthy jokes haphazardly stitched collectively, one thing different comedy video games can typically really feel like. There’s depth right here.
However nice writing, colourful visuals, foolish antics, and a pleasant lead character aren’t sufficient to make an awesome recreation. You additionally must have enjoyable taking part in it, and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey excels at that, too.
It feels lazy, however the easiest way to explain this recreation is: Simpsons: Hit And Run, however with out the copyrighted characters. Like Hit and Run, in Turbo Journey you discover a big however not huge open world stuffed with random junk (on this case, literal junk) to gather. Generally the junk is simply sitting round. Different occasions it’s hidden in out-of-the-way areas. Like Hit And Run, you do gentle platforming to achieve these locations whereas additionally finishing foolish quests for townsfolk which regularly contain driving and leaping across the metropolis. Additionally like Hit And Run, you may hop into any NPC’s automobile and experience about city as a passenger.
Turbo Journey really expands on Hit And Run by including extra upgrades you may unlock as you play, like a glider and completely different weapons. (Oh, don’t fear, there’s no fight on this recreation. You simply use weapons to interrupt open packing containers or annoy random NPCs.) I additionally tremendously choose working and driving in Turbo Journey as platforming genuinely feels good and is tremendous responsive in comparison with the stiffer controls in Hit And Run and even another massive open-world video games on the market. ( you Murderer’s Creed…)
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey will probably take you lower than 4 hours to finish, although should you attempt to do and accumulate every part it’d take nearer to 6. Both manner, you’re in for an superior and humorous open-world comedy recreation that really made me giggle loads and which is a dream to play. It may not be Hit And Run 2, nevertheless it’s a rattling fantastic recreation by itself.
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