The game I’m playing right now takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where you’re mostly scrounging around for junk and then turning that junk into somet🧸hing use༒ful, like weapons or armor. Occasionally, I’ll wander across an old-world vault and find some primo tech in there that’ll really up my arsenal. There's the occasional puzzle game to break up the action, and there are a whole bunch of factions that I’ll need to either ally with or eventually eliminate.
Sounds like I’m playing a Fallout game, right? Well, I’m not. I’m actually playing what I’ve come to dub “Furry Fallout,” or better known as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Biomutant.
Even for those playing the game, it might be easy to overlook the Fallout game loop that pervades Biomutant, since it’s a bit of a kitchen sink game. There are more systems and mechanics in Biomutant 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:than perꦉhaps the game knows what to do with; a common critique amongst reviews is that none o🔯f these systems sy🌼nc up together into a cohesive whole.
But the bedrock of ꦉBiomutant, the stuff that everything else is layered on top of, is basically just a good Fallout game.
We'll start with the post-apocalyptic world. Sure, Biomutant's apocalypse is one 🎃of environmental collapse due to rampant pollution rather than a nuclear exchange, but the end result is the same: humanity has mostly died out and the survivors are left pick🎀ing up the pieces. Only the survivors are mutated squirrels, marsupials and lemurs rather than humans.
Everywhere that's not a little fuꦛrry settlement is in utter ruin. There are nuclear plants leaking radiation around a pit of glowing waste, towns that have been reduced to rubble by long-past explosions, and the random detached home that has held up relatively well and sometimes has a functioning piece of old-world gear hidden away in the basement💎.
The only real difference betw𝔉een Fallout’s world and Biomutant is that there’s actual greenery in between 💟the toxic wreckage of an extinct civilization.
The game loop 🅰is the same too. After picking my tribe and finally being unleashed into the meat of Biomutant's open world, I immediately made a beeline towards the nearest rundown building I could find and was rewarded for my efforts with my first piece of old-world gear--an old toque with fox ears on the top. Those 🐼ears were a little superfluous given my critter's appearance, but they were still an appreciated element of flair
In between duꦦmpster dives I was greeted by bandits, rival tribes, and the occasional mutated monster just as I would in Fallout 3, 4, or New Vegas, and I quickly found myself wondering if I could replace Biomutant's vaguely oriental soundtrack with something by Bo🐠b Crosby or Betty Hutton.
Biomutant's perk system could easily match 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4'𝔉s if given a slight visual makeover, perhaps even featuring a version of Pip-Boy with pointed ears. Although Biomutant's puzzles are laughably simplistic, they still come at you in the same ♕way as Fallout's puzzles do and often hide a rare piece of old-world gear.
And to top it all off, Biomutant has vaults. They don't all have giant circular doors with a spinning handle, but they do have broken down corridors, empty medial beds and equipment, and all the hallmarks of a society desperately trying to survive the end of the world and ultimately fail🤪ing to do so.
There's even a sidequest where you have to disarm a nuclear bomb. It doesn’t get an🐻y more Fallout than that.
What Biomutant does not have is Fallout's storytelling, which generally comes in a more straightforward progꦏression than Biomutant's disjointed flashbacks and rushed exposition. But for all of Biomutant’s faults, it gets Fallout better than any other non-Fallout game I’ve ever played, and th🦹at’s something. Especially for those that have always thought that what Fallout really needed was a wet nose, some cat ears, and a tail.