Before that, there are also interesting moments – you need to kick bombs in a certain order, opening hidden sprouts, then move objects and throw them with teleports. However, the really cool riddles that require all of the above appear only in a short final dungeon.
The most interesting gadget is a portable teleporter, with which you can create two portals and jump between them. A watering can allows you to water plants and get bombs, a shovel is needed for excavations, a sword is used to cut bushes (just like in Zelda, hearts also fall out of them to restore health) and defeat opponents. Over time, Repchik has more and more items needed to solve puzzles. Secondly, the timing is not enough for the mechanics to have time to open up. Many characters stand here for beauty – apart from a couple of funny phrases, they are of no use. In general, you can’t get away from boring backtracking, even if you ignore side tasks.
The signs on which the names of the locations are written save, but they do not always help to find the desired area. There is no fast travel system here, and there is no map, so you have to memorize the location of some heroes. They have already tried to make a humorous version of Zelda more than once (suffice it to recall at least Minit), and this attempt can be considered successful, but here again shortcomings related to duration come out.įirstly, some moments are delayed – more than once or twice Repchik will be asked to pick up an item at one end of the map and bring it to the other. And the whole idea of a turnip refusing to pay taxes is apparently inspired by a stupid meme about tax evader Yoshi (a green dinosaur from the Super Mario series) – another reference to the Nintendo classic. The gameplay was clearly inspired by the old Zelda, especially A Link to the Past.
You can spend about half an hour here, looking for collectibles, completing side tasks and solving the remaining puzzles, but this is not enough. Sometimes it’s better to get less content than to be bored because of the protractedness, but this is not the case here – after passing, I’m ready to spend the same amount of time, but the game suddenly ends. It’s a pity that Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion has a short duration – the entire storyline was tried so hard to fit in two hours that events are developing too rapidly. In the dialogues, of course, you constantly see a play on words (the pasta with a bunch of puns in the monologue about the “Parmesan war” is most remembered), so there is more than enough absurd humor here.Īnd the story itself turns out to be surprisingly interesting – over time, Repchik meets a researcher (half of an avocado, whose flesh looks like a big backpack) and learns more and more new things about what is happening around – about what its true purpose is, what the mayor really needs and what generally happens outside the central garden, where his greenhouse was located. For violation of obligations, the mayor took Repchik’s home away, but offered him to pay off the debt in another way – to become a personal assistant and complete several of his tasks.Īnd so begins the two-hour adventure of a cute turnip – along the way, the hero visits several different locations, gets acquainted with other vegetables and berries, and also defeats snails, worms and other potential pests. One fine day, he received a notice from the mayor informing him of a large debt due to non-payment of the tax on the greenhouse.
The main character is Repchik, and he really evades taxes.