Nobody Saves The World might have the most accurate cats in any game ever.
Imperious, judgey, capable of magic.
Nobody Saves the World review
I love the cats.
But honestly, that’s just the start of things I love about this game.
So this sad, unbaked cookie, this Dilbert, is only the basic form of the hero.
So when you want to move over water, maybe select a form like the ghost?
When you want to sneak through gaps maybe opt for skittering rat?
When you want…hmmm.
What might the egg form be good for?
Truly a high-wire proposition.
Guacamelee was fun, but it was punishing fun.
A game for leaning forward, leaning into the screen, giving it your everything.
An ARPG is a very different proposition.
Could Drinkbox handle such a different kind of fun?
No thirty hours in and wishing you’d chosen the Paladin rather than the Demon Hunter.
Let’s start with those classes.
So maybe your ghost has your rat’s poison bite as well as its main area-damage spooky business.
Yes yes, but more.
Enemies increasingly break down into one of four damage types, each announced with an icon and a colour.
(These are not the technical terms.)
That left the greenies.
Conjured bunnies and leopards were the key - they used lots of mana but did lots of damage.
Truly the game of kings.
Conjured bunnies and leopards were the key - they used lots of mana but did lots of damage.
This is a great game for watching the numbers go up.
And that takes us beyond the classes and forms themselves and out into the world.
Oh, Nobody features a lovely world.
Tradition but with a bit of a spritz.
Get a fish person the medicine they need to stop being a fish person.
Help a horse experience a moment of true love.
Beat a witch’s lap around a kart track.
Work out what to do with all those huge bird’s nests scattered about.
Throw in enemies and you’ve got a treat.
And like a lot of ARPGs it can get a bit grindy.
It’s a surprisingly big game, and extremely replayable, I think.
Drinkbox’s latest is as polished and colourful as you might expect - and it’s as generous too.
I am still having fun.
