Octogeddon

Genre: Arcade / Misc. Game

Players: 1

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Review:

Octogeddon is, much like its central character, a strange mix of elements that seem bizarre together, but oddly works. You control a giant octopus hellbent on world destruction, and do so by waving your tentacles at the buildings and enemy vehicles threatening you. However, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

See, you’re not just fighting with regular octopus tentacles. As the game progresses, you will be able to grow more tentacles or transform the existing ones into new, alternate tentacles like crab claws, snakes that spit venom, or an array of other odd bits and pieces.

The end result feels strangely like a tower defense game, since all of your tentacles automatically attack at preset intervals, and all you’re doing is growing and upgrading them, and then rotating your character to bring the right tentacle in line with the enemy you want it to attack. Do you use the fast tentacle that will be sure to get a hit in? The slow one that does more damage and will be sure to destroy the enemy before they get to you? The penguin tentacle that can freeze them in place?

Judging these sorts of things and managing your response to multiple threats at once from all directions is a large part of the strategy here, on top of making wise decisions in between levels regarding how to upgrade your mutated monster. It’s a really unique way to get a good amount of variety out of controls that basically just amount to “rotate clockwise” and “rotate counter-clockwise”. The game can feel pretty repetitive after a little while, but for the most part it does quite a lot with a little.

The game’s visuals are cartoony and whimsical, nothing impressive but they work well for the game, and the game’s odd sense of humor matches the strange gameplay pretty well.

If you’re looking for something unusual on the Switch, something simple but with some hidden depth, something odd with a quirky sense of humor and a presentation to match, Octogeddon is worth a look.

tl;dr – Octogeddon is an odd Arcade-style game where you play a giant octopus and gradually upgrade his various tentacles to ward off incoming threats, in a way that feels a bit reminiscent of a tower defense game, sorta’. It can get a bit repetitive, but it’s an interesting and unique game that’s easy to play and has an amusing presentation. Worth a look.

Grade: B-

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