Under this paragraph is my full assessment of Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey—a brand new comedic open-world motion sport out now on Steam and playable on Steam Deck. And it’s a very good 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 you must 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 basic story of an odd teenager who skips out on summer season college whereas his household is away on trip to deal with his dream of driving a automotive into house. That’s the essential premise of Turbo Journey. You’re Tiny Terry and after mendacity to get a job with a taxi firm, you get a automotive. It’s now your job to go round accumulating junk and money that will help you improve your taxi cab and make it go quicker and quicker. When you improve all of it the way in which, you possibly can drive it up a large constructing and into house. Most likely. That’s the plan, not less than. And that’s your objective 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 crammed with characters to assist and collectibles to seek out. Straight away, Turbo Journey’s cartoon visuals impressed me. Even on a Steam Deck, the sport seems to be 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 shiny colour and limbs. Even higher, all of them made me chortle, 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 among the greatest 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 appears like a (considerably) actual world with real folks residing in it. Even Terry has his moments of real development and care. This all helps the sport keep away from the entice of being a set of web memes and dangerous jokes haphazardly stitched collectively, one thing different comedy video games can usually 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 excellent sport. You additionally must have enjoyable enjoying it, and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey excels at that, too.
It feels lazy, however the easiest way to explain this sport is: Simpsons: Hit And Run, however with out the copyrighted characters. Like Hit and Run, in Turbo Journey you discover a big however not large open world crammed with random junk (on this case, literal junk) to gather. Generally the junk is simply sitting round. Different instances 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 frequently contain driving and leaping across the metropolis. Additionally like Hit And Run, you possibly can hop into any NPC’s automotive and experience about city as a passenger.
Turbo Journey truly expands on Hit And Run by including extra upgrades you possibly can unlock as you play, like a glider and totally different weapons. (Oh, don’t fear, there’s no fight on this sport. You simply use weapons to interrupt open packing containers or annoy random NPCs.) I additionally vastly favor operating 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. (Taking a look at you Murderer’s Creed…)
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey will seemingly take you lower than 4 hours to finish, although should you attempt to do and acquire every little thing it would take nearer to 6. Both method, you’re in for an superior and humorous open-world comedy sport that truly made me chortle lots and which is a dream to play. It may not be Hit And Run 2, nevertheless it’s a rattling superb sport by itself.
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