Hey, you there! Yeah, you! Do you love your spouse but kinda wish you had more things to fight about? Well, welcome to Bish Bash Bots, the latest couch co-op game to make you scream at your loved ones about how useless they are. It’s a tower defence game, famously one of the most meticulous, precise genres, with the mentality of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overcooked, famously one of the most chaotic games on the planet. I played solo, but even as the devs watched me - friendly and jovial though they seemed - I could tell they were seething with rage at my incompetence. I can't wait to seethe at my loved ones with that same forced grin.
Despite the very different tones of tower defence games and the hysterics of Overcooked, Bish Bash Bots works. Your job is to defend an EMP machine from being attacked by robots, initially by placing cannons and guns, but eventually, more complex weapons unlock. It's all very intuitive - the bots walk in a set path and you can't block them, but you can place turrets alongside it. Hitting your turrets upgrades them, and some robots drop boosts to upgrade them faster.
The best part of Bish Bash Bots though is th🐻at you get to bish and bash the bots yourself. Each character in the foursome is armed with a hammer, and rather than wait for the turrets to do the work, you can manually run up to the robots and bash them (or, if you prefer, bish them). For the smaller robots, you can use this power to whack them into holes on the map, while others have shields that need to be hammered at before the turrets have any impact. Using th😼e hammer can work as crowd control too, slowing the bots down so the cannons can unleash hell. However, you need to be careful not to hit them off the path with the hammer - if you do, they can end up with a clear run to the device.
There was decent diversity in the robot enemies - the regular flying, faster, tougher variants, then the more inventive mother who escorts four weaker ones with a shield - but the maps were most impressive. It's difficult in a tower defence game to offer much variance beyond aesthetic, because the turrets and gameplay loop require a certain level of consistency. However, Bish Bash Bots manages to introduce that differentiation across its landscape while ensuring each level plays in the same familiar way.
For example, I just mentioned that one level had holes in it to bish and bash the bots into. However, that same level had a crane that you could operate like a claw machine (arcade grabber, if you want to be wrong about it), to snatch up the most powerful bots and drop them in the hole. This method moved slowly, and you risked missing the bots if your aim was off, so it provided a solid risk and reward that left you constantly 💛evaluating the best approach. Played in a group, you could have someone run the crane more often, but that would likely mean teammates left that pathway exposed, so mistakes would be even more costly. And then comes the seethe. And then comes the divorce.
Other levels I saw were set underwater and had a giant squid attacking the turrets, or in a lava river where the robot paths would deviate as the map moved around them, rendering some turrets useless. It has the sort of bravery that reminds me of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It Takes Two, where it conjures up a great idea (like the crane), and then ditches it immediately for a new o♏ne to🍌 keep things fresh. That's the second quality it shares with It Takes Two, as well as being a great catalyst for a divorce.
Get thinking hard about why you cherish your loved ones and remember all the good times you had with them, because Bish Bash Bots launches on Xbox, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation, Switch, and PC on October 19. If you want to get a headstart on the shouting matches, a demo containing most of the stuff I saw at Gamescom is .