Beneath this paragraph is my full assessment of Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey—a brand new comedic open-world motion recreation out now on Steam and playable on Steam Deck. And it’s a great assessment. It does what you anticipate. However I can prevent a while proper now. In case you are a fan of The Simpsons: Hit and Run, then you need to play Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey. It’s a excellent recreation of that foolish open-world GTA-like collecton-a-thon expertise, simply with out Homer and Springfield. Anyway, for everybody nonetheless studying, right here’s the assessment.
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey tells the basic story of a wierd teenager who skips out on summer season college whereas his household is away on trip to give attention to his dream of driving a automotive into house. That’s the essential premise of Turbo Journey. You might be Tiny Terry and after mendacity to get a job with a taxi firm, you get a automotive. It’s now your job to go round gathering junk and money that will help you improve your taxi cab and make it go quicker and quicker. If you happen to improve all of it the way in which, you’ll be able to drive it up a large constructing and into house. In all probability. That’s the plan, no less than. And that’s your purpose in Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey.
Nevertheless, to get all of the junk and money wanted to max out your taxi and attain outer house, you’ll must discover a delightfully colourful and zany open-world full of characters to assist and collectibles to search out. Instantly, Turbo Journey’s cartoon visuals impressed me. Even on a Steam Deck, the sport appears marvelous, like a trippy, vivid Saturday morning cartoon directed by Bizarre Al.
Every character I met on this odd world was a misshapen lump of vibrant coloration and limbs. Even higher, all of them made me snort, actually because they didn’t know the way to react to Tiny Terry. His weird antics and dedication to being the weirdest one within the room result in a number of the greatest awkward pauses I’ve ever skilled in a online game.
I additionally appreciated that, for as bizarre and wild as Turbo Journey will get, it by no means feels prefer it’s doing issues simply to be random. It nonetheless looks like a (considerably) actual world with real individuals residing in it. Even Terry has his moments of real development and care. This all helps the sport keep away from the lure of being a set of web memes and dangerous jokes haphazardly stitched collectively, one thing different comedy video games can usually really feel like. There’s depth right here.
However nice writing, colourful visuals, foolish antics, and a pleasant lead character aren’t sufficient to make an awesome recreation. You additionally must have enjoyable enjoying it, and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey excels at that, too.
It feels lazy, however the easiest way to explain this recreation is: Simpsons: Hit And Run, however with out the copyrighted characters. Like Hit and Run, in Turbo Journey you discover a big however not large open world full of random junk (on this case, literal junk) to gather. Typically the junk is simply sitting round. Different instances it’s hidden in out-of-the-way places. Like Hit And Run, you do gentle platforming to succeed in these locations whereas additionally finishing foolish quests for townsfolk which frequently contain driving and leaping across the metropolis. Additionally like Hit And Run, you’ll be able to hop into any NPC’s automotive and experience about city as a passenger.
Turbo Journey truly expands on Hit And Run by including extra upgrades you’ll be able to unlock as you play, like a glider and totally different weapons. (Oh, don’t fear, there’s no fight on this recreation. You simply use weapons to interrupt open bins or annoy random NPCs.) I additionally tremendously want working and driving in Turbo Journey as platforming genuinely feels good and is tremendous responsive in comparison with the stiffer controls in Hit And Run and even another massive open-world video games on the market. ( you Murderer’s Creed…)
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey will seemingly take you lower than 4 hours to finish, although if you happen to attempt to do and gather all the things it’d take nearer to 6. Both approach, you’re in for an superior and humorous open-world comedy recreation that truly made me snort lots and which is a dream to play. It may not be Hit And Run 2, but it surely’s a rattling high quality recreation by itself.
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