Whilst you may be given independent movement of your characters arms and you can run, jump and dive, TRDS makes it difficult to even load a parcel onto your vehicle. Even the characters gait is nonsense, ensuring that every part of this game is difficult to control. The ‘unpredictable’ ragdoll physics – as advertised on the Nintendo eShop – are quite possibly some of the worst seen to date. There is evidence of creativity here, but no sooner than the objective has been given does the game start to combust. Place a suspicious-looking nuclear box at the start of a zipline. Carry a fragile box of staples and get them to the office. Load an explosive barrel into a helicopter and deliver it to a skyscraper. Just the act of carrying this box to its destination can prove painful.ĭeveloped by We’re Five Games and published by tinyBuild, TRDS is an interactive sandbox world whereby you are tasked with delivering packages in the most unlikely of places, with a variety of vehicles at your disposal. For all intents and purposes, TRDS is poor: poorly designed, poorly packaged and poorly delivered. TinyBuild GAMES provided us with a Totally Reliable Delivery Service PS4 code for review purposes.Like a parcel that was left out in the rain by the postman because ‘you weren’t in’, Totally Reliable Delivery Service will leave you disappointed, frustrated and clamouring for the Customer Service number to complain. You?ll experience pretty much everything it has to offer in the first few minutes of playing it, and it?s the sort of game best experienced as part of a YouTube compilation, rather than something you need to play on your own. In other words, Totally Reliable Delivery Service is the definition of a one-note joke that wears out its welcome pretty quickly. After all, there are only so many times you can flop around helplessly before it stops being funny. I?ll admit that I only played the game solo, so it?s quite possible things are improved by the presence of other people, but even still, I can?t see how that would make it substantially better. Sure, the packages change, but it?s still all Point A to Point B while fighting with lousy physics. Which is the other big flaw with Totally Reliable Delivery Service: it gets really repetitive really fast. While it may be fun once or twice, when it happens over and over again, the humour evaporates pretty quickly. One time, trying to get into a plane, I ended up rolling around beneath the wing, unable to do anything else. Sometimes I?d make it in, but just as frequently I?d phase through the vehicle entirely. Similarly, any time I tried getting into a vehicle - which is a must in this game, seeing as you have an open world full of deliveries to make - it was a hit-or-miss proposition. Like, one time I dropped a package off in the designated area, and my character ended up getting stuck as well. Unfortunately, there are plenty of times where the flailing and the falling feel more like a design flaw than something intended to make the game more enjoyable. On top of that, some of the packages are explosive, which means the game makes good use of its ragdoll physics. Much like Human Fall Flat or QWOP, you have far more control over your driver?s limbs than you would in most other games, and the resulting flailing is good for a laugh or two. You (and friends, if you want) control - in the loosest sense of the term - a klutzy delivery driver, and you have to try and deliver all kinds of packages from Point A to Point B. It?s not that the basic idea isn?t fun - it is. Where a game like Goat Simulator occasionally reached some surprisingly impressive highs if you stuck with it long enough, with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, you?ll find that the whole thing has diminishing returns pretty quickly. That said, I think Totally Reliable Delivery Service comes a lot closer to that line than Goat Simulator ever did. Like Goat Simulator years ago, it?s broken in a lot of ways…but it?s intentionally broken, which makes it difficult to tell where the line is between bad on purpose and just plain bad. It?s hard to review a game like Totally Reliable Delivery Service.
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