Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey Assessment: An Indie Simpsons: Hit And Run

Beneath this paragraph is my full evaluate 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 very good evaluate. It does what you anticipate. However I can prevent a while proper now. If you’re a fan of The Simpsons: Hit and Run, then it is best 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 evaluate.

Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey tells the traditional story of an odd teenager who skips out on summer season faculty whereas his household is away on trip to concentrate on his dream of driving a automobile into area. That’s the fundamental premise of Turbo Journey. You’re Tiny Terry and after mendacity to get a job with a taxi firm, you get a automobile. It’s now your job to go round accumulating junk and money that can assist you improve your taxi cab and make it go quicker and quicker. Should you improve all of it the way in which, you’ll be able to drive it up a large constructing and into area. Most likely. That’s the plan, no less than. And that’s your aim in Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey. 

Nonetheless, to get all of the junk and money wanted to max out your taxi and attain outer area, you’ll have to discover a delightfully colourful and zany open-world crammed with characters to assist and collectibles to search out. Straight away, 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 shiny colour and limbs. Even higher, all of them made me giggle, actually because they didn’t know how you can react to Tiny Terry. His weird antics and dedication to being the weirdest one within the room result in a few 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 seems like a (considerably) actual world with real individuals residing in it. Even Terry has his moments of real progress and care. This all helps the sport keep away from the entice of being a set of web memes and unhealthy 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 incredible recreation. You additionally have to have enjoyable taking part in it, and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Journey excels at that, too.

It feels lazy, however one of the simplest ways 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 huge open world crammed with random junk (on this case, literal junk) to gather. Typically the junk is simply sitting round. Different occasions it’s hidden in out-of-the-way areas. Like Hit And Run, you do gentle platforming to achieve 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 automobile and trip 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 completely different weapons. (Oh, don’t fear, there’s no fight on this recreation. You simply use weapons to interrupt open containers or annoy random NPCs.) I additionally tremendously favor 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 huge 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 every part it would take nearer to 6. Both manner, you’re in for an superior and humorous open-world comedy recreation that really made me giggle rather a lot and which is a dream to play. It may not be Hit And Run 2, but it surely’s a rattling fantastic recreation by itself.

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