Unfortunately, while the game was certainly fun at this point, it sort of loses the form shifting that I enjoyed so much in the early stages. The game does a good job of using new challenges that require some mixing and matching to promote and teach possibilities. At this point, the game opens up to really wild possibilities, as the player can construct builds that feel outrageously powerful. Suddenly, I’m a horse shooting arrows and turning enemies into zombies. It was immensely compelling to jump between forms and complete simple tasks, being rewarded both with expanded and enhanced abilities for the form in use, as well as very quickly unlocking shiny new forms to play with.Īfter a certain point in the story, the player gains the ability to mix and match abilities between forms. Upgrading the Knight unlocks the Horse and the Magician, upgrading the Ranger unlocks the Slug and the Bodybuilder, so on to the top of the tree where players can unlock the Dragon. When the player raises the Rat from F rank to C, based on letter grades, they unlock two branches, the Knight and the Ranger. The list of forms is structured like a tree, beginning with the Rat. Upgrading forms and unlocking new ones is very compelling, and though it was easy to unlock every form before completing the game, there was plenty of work left to be done to max out all of them. In the early parts of the game, players are encouraged to constantly shift between forms, both because different enemies are susceptible to different types of attacks, and also because the game features a very tightly designed progression system where completing challenges and ranking up forms unlocks other forms. The environments and dungeons are particularly inventive, with developer Drinkbox including interesting twists on familiar archetypes. A vibrant and imaginative cartoon art style is used, with great care to make sure most things look gross. The screen can get filled with a whole lot of enemies, summoned allies, and effects, but the performance was steady the whole way. The game is presented as an isometric role-playing game, similar to early “Legend of Zelda” titles, where the player looks on a zoomed-out, top-down view.
Favorites of mine included the Zombie, who heals by attacking enemies, and infects them so they are zombified and turned into allies upon defeat, the Slug, who leaves a trail of slime that slows enemies so they can be attacked with projectile tears and, to my surprise, the bodybuilder, who throws a giant barbell that knocks back enemies, then greases up his muscles to deal greater damage. Shapeshifting is the central mechanic of the game, as each of the forms features unique abilities, and each of them features a surprisingly unique playstyle. "Nobody Saves the World" doesn't have much focus on story, but does feature lots of silly minor characters and jokes, like tracking down aliens around the world, or falling in love with a horse. For Nobody to save the world, they need to collect the five pieces of an ancient gemstone and dive into the heart of the corruption to set things right. The great wizard who should be in charge of saving the world is missing, and his apprentice is super rude, so Nobody steals an experimental wand that allows them to shapeshift first into a rat, then later into a bodybuilder, a mermaid, a horse, a slug, a zombie and even an egg.
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Players step into the sort of gross, paper-white skin of the titular Nobody, and use that magic wand to shapeshift into 18 different forms to battle enemies and plunder dungeons.Īt the start of “Nobody Saves the World,” Nobody wakes up without their memories, without even their physical features, reduced to a surprisingly literal blank slate by the calamity that is sweeping across the land. When darkness falls over a world that frankly looks like it was in pretty bad shape to begin with, only one hero has the courage to steal a magic wand and stumble through a grand quest to defeat evil.
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