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Biomutant has some visually wonderfully imaginative, huge foes, who will all rip you up like the aforementioned food wrapper, regardless of your level. The overall balancing in combat feels off, as well. It feels like the background stays blurry in sequences like this to save processing power, like here in conversation with a beatnik ferret. The far-reaching consequences of this are an unfortunate masterclass in the importance of impact in animation, because whatever you do in Biomutant, no matter how wild things get, from piloting a mech to bouncing around in balls of viscous liquid, it always feels underwhelming. They're quite slow sometimes, hits don't visibly connect, and effect visuals, even the fun comic onomatopoeia, can't properly convey impact. Apart from the weak and sometimes entirely non-existent controller feedback - which obviously you won't miss using mouse and keyboard - it's also there in the animation quality. In reality, it feels as weightless as food wrappers blowing in the wind.

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In a lengthy side quest, you can search for materials to upgrade the mech you'll use in one boss fight, only to find the encounter is already too easy without them and you shouldn't have bothered.įrom afar, Biomutant's Devil May Cry-esque combat looks responsive and snappy. You can tame mounts, only to find they're slower than your own running speed. Biomutant simply wastes a lot of its own energy - and mine - in ways like this. A great idea foiled by underlying mechanics. To be clear - four fighting styles is still a lot, but then you have to keep in mind the strength of each weapon, meaning that if you want to switch, you might have to farm the right materials first. Instead, each weapon you make falls into one of four different categories, and just like that, we're on familiar ground again. Visually it's a lot of fun to tool together an axe and a vacuum cleaner, but of course near-endless variety in weapon design can't lead to endless variety in fighting styles. The sheer amount of crafting items - screws, blades, bent metal, bats - is just as impressive as the many different skills the team thought of, like the psi attacks and toxic bio powers you can use in addition to melee and ranged combat.īut every feature falls victim to the game's quantity over quality maxim.

The game runs like a dream on PC, with next to no need for loading screens and the framerate plummeting very rarely during some of the heavier action. The giant map often looks exquisite, its lush and vibrant forests flanked by ruined towns and toxic wastelands. In many ways, it remains a marvel when considering the size of the team. You see it in the way copies of environments exist around the map, how some animations had to be foregone, how text repeats with certain actions. To understand other areas in which Biomutant can't live up to the expectations it set itself, it's important to remember this is a game made by a team of just 20.

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Availability: Out May 25th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.You can pick up any weapon regardless of your character class, which makes the classes superfluous - you can even find multiple ways to learn the starting perks each class comes with even if you chose another. You and others of your species are adept in the art of kung-fu, but you can also wield giant swords, guns, rocket launchers and karate weapons such as bo staves, sai blades and more. The protagonist here is a mutant, a furry being reminiscent of a cat, or maybe more of a rodent, depending on which visual you're going with during character creation. To be fair, you've never controlled a character quite like this.

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It's full of superlatives any marketer would love, confident in selling itself as something you've never seen before.

In part, this is due to developer Experiment 101 having been granted an unusual amount of freedom by their publisher to keep adding stuff, which led to a game that always sounds like a lot on paper - a character customisable down to their genetic makeup who can wield any weapon, a crafting system allowing you to make virtually anything, a morality system, a map dwarfing even Skyrim's. Like clockwork, a life sign would emerge, with the announcement that yes, it's coming, definitely, just not right now. For all the weirdness and fun it promises, Biomutant ends up a deeply conventional open-world action game.įor the longest time, Biomutant has been my white whale.