A miserable cocktail of ideas from other action-platformers and the worst parts of Rick and Morty, our High on Life review is an Avoid.
You insist on specifics - fine. This is a first-person platformer-shooter in which you play a burbanite kid turned bounty hunter, chasing down alien gangsters who have discovered that they can smoke human beings like pot. There's a hub city with dimensional gateways to a handful of jungle or desert worlds, built around looping main paths with pop-up"kill till the music stops" enemy waves and the odd hidden collectible.
Every now and then, the game feels like a relatively innocent sandbox shooter in the Halo or Far Cry tradition, defined by verticality and the creative chaining of alt-fires, while exploiting terrain elements like pop-out fans, ziplines or breakable cages of omni-hostile fauna. But it's rickety and forgettable on the whole, with enemies who sometimes space out or get stuck in the geometry, forcing you to search for them to initiate the next story phase.
But with that pace comes terminally-online burnout and a performance of despair that borders on earnest, yet too often settles into edgelord cynicism and the same tedious, punchdown humour as South Park. It's on this side of Rick and Morty that High on Life draws most frequently.
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