I’m not so sure as to the point of any of it, aside from winning each match, but if the visage of my character running about with its arms above its head tickles my funny-bone (and my wit for improvisation), I suspect I just might have unearthed the joy of playing the idiot. Be it running aimlessly around one of the game’s minimally-designed arenas, caught amongst a four-strong human chain (that is if these gelatinous models are meant to be impersonating humanoid figures) trying desperately not to fall off the edge or simply watching your player-character get smacked in the face by a running train – which represents one of the game’s in-stage hazards – even I can not help but rustle up a smirk at just how pointless yet entertaining this paradigm of a beautiful mess this game can often be. So with the infrastructure finally going online, it’s safe to say that humour is not lost. The premise being that, as stated, the most simplest of actions are so convolutedly hard to control, let alone master, the result is a merry mound of drunken bust-up’s and matches that wind up being some of the most ridiculous, most chaotic but ultimately laughable moments you can have.
With Boneloaf’s Double Fine-published, multiplayer-based beat ‘em up having been in Early Access sinc9e August 2014, the online component has now entered Beta stage and while you may consider giving the reigns over to someone like myself – who often has gnawing disdain for anything that involves online…and people…and communicating, in some manner, with said people – to be an odd fit, Gang Beasts interests me because of how anti-multiplayer its delivery turns out be. Gang Beasts might not be some sarcastic, blue comedy discomfort on something you’d never want to discuss, even anonymously, but its over-the-top and quite ridiculous complexion of the most simple and mundane of tasks definitely raises a smile. While I usually don’t take to more American ways in amping up the volume to some crude shock-value, I won’t deny my fondness for atypically dry humour isn’t balanced out by the occasional silliness, and to use a popular Internet term, “derpy” showing on-screen. I tend to class myself as possessing a rather varied and eclectic (if you can even use such a word) spectrum when it comes to my taste in humour and comedy.
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