Glitch Busters: Caught on You Overview (PS4)

Glitch Busters: Caught on You is a one to 4 participant, cooperative, platforming shoot-’em-up from developer Toylogic. In a far-flung future, you play as 4 AI Tubers that may solely be described as emoji-faced Smarties with magnets for legs. They’re on a mission to cleanse Interland of Badface’s bugs and glitches, with the intention of restoring YohTube to its former glory.

Glitch Busters is level-based and sees your squad navigating platforms, fixing easy button-pushing puzzles, and vanquishing hordes of glitches throughout a wide range of environments, from a fiery volcano to a cyber cityscape. You’ll be able to swap between every of the 4 jelly beans on the fly, commanding them to stack up or unstack for pushing buttons and dealing elevated harm.

General, the controls really feel very unresponsive. Getting the AI-controlled beans to observe instructions takes an age, and typically does not even work as a consequence of one getting caught on the setting. To make issues worse, the pleasant AI is not ok so that you can full the sport solo. They’re continuously taking harm from enemies, getting caught, or simply falling to their demise, forcing a restart. The enemy AI can be extraordinarily primary — they will slowly transfer straight in direction of you, and do not feel like a risk till you are met by at the least a dozen without delay.

As you progress, you will be competing along with your fellow Skittles as to who can rack up essentially the most Likes, collectable cash littered all through every stage. These are used within the store to unlock new enemies, new weapons, and pick-ups. That is nice till you attain a blocked story stage that is unplayable till you accumulate sufficient Likes to unlock the enemies required for the extent. This happens a number of instances all through the 4 to 6 hour marketing campaign and looks like a really pointless barrier.

Glitch Busters’ presentation additionally leaves so much to be desired, with a shiny, cartoony visible model that appears unfinished. Most of the fashions look very two-dimensional despite the fact that they’re in a 3D world; it is very jarring and appears utterly misplaced. The sound is equally irritating, with the characters making essentially the most horrendous noise when speaking. It was so insufferable we needed to swap it off within the settings. The music, though upbeat, is not any higher with a soccer chant-sounding tune on fixed loop. It makes navigating the clunky person interface, with its sluggish cursor, that rather more irritating.

In the event you can overlook the evident points Glitch Busters has with its poor presentation and primary AI, then there’s enjoyable available with buddies within the type of some gratifying boss fights and vehicle-based ranges later into the marketing campaign. Nevertheless, and not using a buddy by your facet, it is not value trawling via the remainder of the sport with a bunch of ineffective peas to get there.