Thank Goodness You’re Here! revealed at Gamescom

Thank Goodness Youre Here

Gamescon Opening Evening Stay has lastly drawn to an in depth after virtually three hours of recreation trailers. Out of these many, many trailers only one actually caught my consideration as the sport regarded like nothing else proven in the course of the occasion.

Thank Goodness You’re Here! is a 2D-ish cartoon slapstick platformer set in Northern England and boasting regional accents and it’s obtained greater than a whiff of Monty Python, The Quick Present, and Reeves and Mortimer to it.  Take a look at the trailer.

Such an ideal trailer, I’ve watched it about ten instances already and nonetheless chuckle at “Give you wife the best, give her Big Rons… .. pies”. ‘Peans’ should even be a riff on the basic The Fast Show sketch for Cheesy Peaz. Ah, joyful recollections. Anyway, right here’s extra in regards to the recreation.

After arriving early for a giant assembly with the mayor of a weird Northern English city, a touring salesman takes the time to discover and meet the locals, who’re all very keen to offer him a sequence of more and more odd jobs… Thank Goodness You’re Here! is a comedy slapformer, which unfolds over time because the gamers’ exploration and antics go away their mark on the unusual city of Barnsworth. With every accomplished odd job, new areas of the city open up, stranger and stranger duties change into out there, and the clock ticks in direction of our salesman’s huge assembly. The city’s colourful inhabitants are delivered to life with vibrant hand-drawn animation, totally voiced dialogue, and wall-to-wall double entendres.

Options:

• Daring, lovely visible design that seamlessly blends side-scrolling motion vignettes with top-down exploration in a chock-a-block open world

• Progressively extra concerned and puzzling odd-jobs to finish: lower the grass, bake a pie, traverse the astral aircraft!

• Hand-crafted animation and unique story based mostly on conventional Yorkshire folklore

• Genuine regional dialects assured to mek thi spit artwork thi tea laughin’

• Oddly shifting unique soundtrack

Thank Goodness You’re Here! will launch subsequent 12 months on Nintendo Change, PlayStation 5 and PC.