Maybe the perfect shock of Gamescom Opening Evening Dwell 2023 was Thank Goodness You are Right here!, one of many final trailers dropped on the very finish of the showcase.
This delightful-looking “slapformer” comes from the staff at Coal Supper, Will Todd and James Carbutt. Thank Goodness You are Here’s a surreal tribute to their dwelling in northern England: Barnsworth. That is the developer’s first full-scale console recreation following the Steam hit The Good Time Backyard.
It appears to be like like a dwell Beano comedian, however is stuffed with grownup humour and grotesque visuals all through. Suitably British, then, innit? Let’s examine what writer Panic has to say in regards to the recreation:
After arriving early for a giant assembly with the mayor of a weird Northern English city, a touring salesman takes the time to discover and meet the locals, who’re all very keen to offer him a collection of more and more odd jobs… Thank Goodness You’re Right here! is a comedy slapformer, which unfolds over time because the gamers’ exploration and antics go away their mark on the unusual city of Barnsworth. With every accomplished odd job, new areas of the city open up, stranger and stranger duties turn out to be accessible, and the clock ticks in the direction of our salesman’s massive assembly. The city’s colourful inhabitants are delivered to life with vibrant hand-drawn animation, absolutely voiced dialogue, and wall-to-wall double entendres.
Options:
– Daring, stunning visible design that seamlessly blends side-scrolling motion vignettes with top-down exploration in a chock-a-block open world
– Progressively extra concerned and puzzling odd-jobs to finish: minimize the grass, bake a pie, traverse the astral airplane!
– Hand-crafted animation and authentic story based mostly on conventional Yorkshire folklore
– Genuine regional dialects assured to mek thi spit artwork thi tea laughin’
– Oddly shifting authentic soundtrack
Thank Goodness You are Right here! shall be at Gamescom over the subsequent couple of days, however you may additionally be capable to strive the sport out at PAX West from 1st to 4th September.
We’re excited to dunk our biscuits into our tea when Thank Goodness You are Right here! launches on Swap someday in 2024. Will you be placing the kettle on for a slapformer? Tell us down beneath.