Earlier than you even play it, you’ll be able to intuit a complete lot concerning the upcoming action-strategy sport Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids, simply by its completely ridiculous identify alone. Nicely, I’m happy to report that after spending a number of hours with it, it’s precisely as goofy and over-the-top because the title suggests. This cartoonish co-op journey provides off a distinct Saturday-morning cartoon vibe with its shiny colours, absurd gags, and dorky aliens with wacky voices, and blends Third-person motion with real-time technique components which have actually piqued my curiosity. However don’t be fooled by its household pleasant ornamentation! As one may anticipate from a technique sport with XCOM creator Julian Gollop on the helm, this factor already began to point out simply how deceptively difficult it may be throughout my brief time with it, which has left me wanting to see extra.
Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids threw me proper into the center of the motion with out a lot context behind its utterly bonkers premise – and I used to be extraordinarily okay with that. I imply, what’s to not get about a reckless human named Chip and a robotic kitten named Clawz, preventing in opposition to an alien race of brains inside jars referred to as the Brainioids? My co-op pal and I labored our means by way of more and more tough ranges stuffed with relentless alien baddies despatched to kill us by somebody named Normal Blobbius (who just isn’t a army basic, however the basic supervisor of the Brainioids company, due to course he’s). When you couldn’t inform already, Chip ‘N Clawz doesn’t precisely take itself severely, to its huge profit. From the brightly-colored ranges, dopey trying enemies, and ongoing infantile banter, it instantly oozes a kid-friendly attraction that lured me into a false sense of safety that perhaps this is able to be a fairly straightforward experience, though I’d chosen laborious mode.