It’s worth saying this from the off,Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip(an alliterate pleasure) is only a few hours long and every single minute is filled with joy. This is one of those games that comes along and entertains in so many ways, from the oddball animation style to the simple pleasures of acting out mundane tasks in this sideways world.
We’ll get the premise of the game out of the way because it’s a very simple affair. You play as Terry, a young man who is failing school, and rather than attend summer school he wants to drive a car into space. The game starts with Terry in a job centre applying to be a taxi driver in order to get his hands on a car. Once this is achieved, your goal is to collect enough turbo junk to upgrade the car’s speed to reach space.
Tiny Terry
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Shops litter the map, some sell cute frog-like pets, others sell hats that do nothing except improve your style, and then there’s the junk shop that seels tools. A shovel is handy for digging up piles of dirt to uncover cash that is then spent in said shops, while weapons can be used to destroy objects, also doling out cash.
Tiny Terry
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For such a short game, I don’t want to reveal more. Pretty much every great moment in this 3D platformer comes from a silly conversation or working out how to interact with something and to explain these or point them out robs them of their comedic timing or the ‘ah-ha’ moment.
All I can really say aboutTiny Terry’s Turbo Tripis that for the few hours I spent with it nothing else mattered. I wandered around sometimes focusing on exploration, sometimes switching up and concentrating on furthering the upgrade of the taxi. I chuckled a lot, I explored because I wanted to see and collect as much as possible, and it felt like a nice detour. It was a pleasant diversion in my gaming this week, where I didn’t have to fight big monsters or sit through extended cutscenes. All I had to do was live in the moment, mooching around this bright, colourful and wonky town that constantly delivered humour. I can’t recommend it enough.
Pros: Funny, bizarre, simple joy
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Cons: It’s too short give me more of Terry
For fans of: Spyro, Mario, offbeat humour
8/10: Excellent
Topics:Reviews,PC,Steam
