In my opinion Octodad is a pretty good game but nothing great. With friends, even if you can’t figure out how to do anything, you will probably still be laughing when you accidentally trash a room or generally wreak some other type of havoc. Octodad is at its most fun when playing with friends though. If you are able to understand what they were going for then you should have fun on the brief campaign. If for some reason you can’t grasp the controls it is going to be a very frustrating experience. Your experience with Octodad will depend on a variety of factors. The good news is that if you missed some trophies during your playthrough you can use the free play option to go back to specific stages and unlock them. The trophies in Octodad range from getting an item at the grocery store before someone else to doing things that are a bit more crazy such as getting sucked into the riding mower. It will tell you how long you took to beat each level in case you want to go for a better time as well as how many available ties you have found. Free play will allow you re-play any segment you have already passed. This is probably the best way to experience Octodad if you have friends to play the game with. The madness that ensues from having everyone control a different limb is great and resulted in a bunch of laughs and good times from everyone involved. Local co-op works with two to four players with each person controlling one set of limbs. In addition to the single player campaign, there is also a co-op setting as well as free play. Once such puzzle consists of trying to get some frozen pizza in the grocery store but the freezer has frozen all of the doors shut, except for one of them on the opposite end of where you need to be. If not it is going to take you a little longer to figure out how to solve the puzzles that are presented to you. If you are able to grasp the controls quickly you can pretty much fly through this game. There are a few different environments in the game that range from your house, your yard, a grocery store and more I won’t spoil. So not only do you have to worry about this chef trying to ruin your life but you also need to perform the functions of every other normal dad such as taking care of your kids, tending to the yard, doing grocery shopping and more. Along your journey you keep running in to this sushi chef that knows your secret and is trying to expose you to the world. Throughout the game your wife begins to suspect something is wrong and keeps questioning you about strange occurrences she has noticed. You also have two human children with a young son and a young daughter. You are an octopus and somehow married a human female without her knowing that you are an octopus. I say that in a positive way as some of the situations you are put in can be pretty funny. The story for Octodad is fairly light and pretty ridiculous. Of course it helps that Octodad is only a couple of hours long. I question whether gamers will hang around long enough to really understand how to control Octodad and navigate the various environments. That said though the moments I was able to successfully complete an objective was a great one. Due to the control scheme there were many moments of frustration as Octodad wouldn’t do what I wanted at all times. When you first play Octodad the controls appear to be broken, or at the very least, really obtuse. I initially struggled with how to review this game for those reasons. Octodad: Dadliest Catch has to be the most unique game I have played to date on PS4 and that is both good and bad.
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