![]() ![]() There is another early section where your character must find a toilet in which to relieve himself. Sometimes, the instructions are not so clear cut. ![]() This is fair enough, as I clearly picked the wrong colour and within the confines of Protocol’s logic, it sets the tone for the rest of the game. Pick the wrong colour and you get nuked, resulting in replaying the section beforehand to try again. An early example of this comes in a moment where your character is told to use a certain coloured terminal to access a section of the base. However, the game punishes deviations of and reinforces mundanity. This all sounds simple at first and conjures thoughts that wrong choices or actions will be because of something of consequence. These rules being so strict, that any deviation or illusion of choice is shattered thanks to a zero-tolerance policy set by the agency, resulting in a nuclear warhead cleansing you and the location you are working through. A programme designed around strict guidelines one should take when encountering extra-terrestrial life and making first contact. In this game, you play a nameless, recently divorced soldier who has signed up to take part in the Protocol. This is something to consider when reading the below review for Protocol, a title by Fair Games Studio which claims to be a Sci-Fi comedy with a hint of horror. It depends entirely on you as to whether the comedy will carry the rest of the game for you and which styles or jokes that you will resonate with. You could loath Sam and Max for its surrealism, you could hate Octodad for its purposefully shonky physics, while loving Eat Lead for its simple, Scary Movie approach to parody. The thing to remember with all this though is that comedy is one of those things that can be very changeable for the person. You either get the games that are built around a story and great gameplay with comedic elements like the Sam and Max series games that are purposefully bad, yet fun like Octodad: Dadliest Catch or they end up being bottom barrel stuff like Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard which seeks to poke fun at gaming tropes, despite being awful itself. In PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / click / comedy / game / point / protocol / sci fi by GrizzĬomedy video games are a sub-genre with a laboured past. ![]()
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