High on Life: A Fun Shooter Game with Great Jokes, but Repetitive Gameplay
High on Life is a shooter game in first person mode made by
Squanch Games , a studio founded by " Rick and Morty " co-creator Justin
Roiland. In the game, the player assumes the role of a suburban dweller lost in
an alien world where a drug cartel traffics in humans because it has figured
out that smoking and eating us gets aliens high. Armed with the first talking
gun, voiced by Roiland, the player goes into battle against bipedal ants,
hopping frogs, and the most common of enemies: alien cartel soldiers in vague
form who appear to be covered in a thick layer of liquefied Velveeta. The weapons in High on Life talk , because that is the main
element of the game. The guns are in the hands of the unnamed protagonist and
their bullet-shaped eyes roll upward from the lower right edge of the screen.
Almost everything the player does in the game, from using a skill to rocket
through a tunnel to eliminating an enemy, is commented on by them. In
dialogues, weapons take over while the cha…