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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Jul. 19th, 2021 07:23 amTurnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a 16-bit Zelda-style game with cute graphics and meme-heavy writing that takes about two and a half hours to play from start to finish with 100% completion.
There are three formal inside dungeons and two less formal outside dungeons, as well as the usual variety of “go fetch me this thing” sidequests. The game isn’t overly difficult, but it’s not baby-level easy. The gameplay isn’t engineered for precision mechanics, which makes the boss fights somewhat more challenging than they need to be, but you can turn on “god mode” at any time from the menu. Around the middle of the game you get a device that generates portals, and there are some fun puzzles involving getting bombs and blocks to where they need to be.
Your main goal, as Turnip Boy, is to destroy every single piece of shitty paper you get your (non-existent) hands on. Tax documents? Rip them up. Leases? Rip them up. Receipts? Rip them up. A love letter that the girl you like wants you to deliver to someone who isn’t you, even though she knows you like her? Rip it up right in front of her face. Someone’s uwu anime drawing? Rip that shit up.
It’s very cathartic.
The exploration and puzzles are fun, but what I really enjoyed about Turnip Boy is the dialog, as well as the way your adorable yet feral protagonist’s silence is used for comedic effect. This game does one of my favorite Earthbound-inspired things ever, which is to populate the dungeons with people who talk to you, making them feel like towns that happen to be overrun with monsters. There are also diaries and other documents (that you can rip up) scattered about in the dungeons that provide lowkey Fallout-style worldbuilding.
So I guess you could say that Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a comedy story game that’s set up as a 16-bit Zelda game, and the 16-bit graphics and Zelda-like gameplay elements actually work really well. The music is super-catchy too.
Is the game worth $15? Idk, to me it definitely was. A team of fifteen people developed this game, and I’m happy to give each of them a dollar. If you’re in the “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding” camp, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is the game for you, especially if you want to take an afternoon off and enjoy yourself by exploring a colorful fantasy garden while gleefully smashing capitalism.
There are three formal inside dungeons and two less formal outside dungeons, as well as the usual variety of “go fetch me this thing” sidequests. The game isn’t overly difficult, but it’s not baby-level easy. The gameplay isn’t engineered for precision mechanics, which makes the boss fights somewhat more challenging than they need to be, but you can turn on “god mode” at any time from the menu. Around the middle of the game you get a device that generates portals, and there are some fun puzzles involving getting bombs and blocks to where they need to be.
Your main goal, as Turnip Boy, is to destroy every single piece of shitty paper you get your (non-existent) hands on. Tax documents? Rip them up. Leases? Rip them up. Receipts? Rip them up. A love letter that the girl you like wants you to deliver to someone who isn’t you, even though she knows you like her? Rip it up right in front of her face. Someone’s uwu anime drawing? Rip that shit up.
It’s very cathartic.
The exploration and puzzles are fun, but what I really enjoyed about Turnip Boy is the dialog, as well as the way your adorable yet feral protagonist’s silence is used for comedic effect. This game does one of my favorite Earthbound-inspired things ever, which is to populate the dungeons with people who talk to you, making them feel like towns that happen to be overrun with monsters. There are also diaries and other documents (that you can rip up) scattered about in the dungeons that provide lowkey Fallout-style worldbuilding.
So I guess you could say that Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a comedy story game that’s set up as a 16-bit Zelda game, and the 16-bit graphics and Zelda-like gameplay elements actually work really well. The music is super-catchy too.
Is the game worth $15? Idk, to me it definitely was. A team of fifteen people developed this game, and I’m happy to give each of them a dollar. If you’re in the “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding” camp, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is the game for you, especially if you want to take an afternoon off and enjoy yourself by exploring a colorful fantasy garden while gleefully smashing capitalism.
