High on Life's Best Design Choice is Weapons That Talk

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From the mind of Justin Roiland and Squanch Games comes High on Life, an FPS action-adventure that is absurd and creative in its design choices. Unveiled at the Xbox and Bethesda Ganes Showcase this June and with the pedigree of Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites behind it, High on Life could be a comedic hit on PC and Xbox.

With everything the reveal trailer has shown for the upcoming game, arguably one of High on Life's best features is its strange choice of weapons that all have unique personalities and voices of their own. By making the weapons have distinctive identities and turning them into characters, not only can this provide a wealth of comedy through in-combat dialogue and cutscenes with different guns equipped, but it could also help circumvent game design hurdles such as tutorials.

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Based on early footage, it seems there are four main weapons used in the player's right hand, with an additional two tools in the left hand. There could be more that haven't yet been revealed, but the showcase presented enough on High on Life to get the general idea behind its premise. It seems the initial gun players will receive is a blue-colored pistol creature that also appears in promotional artwork for the game. In addition, there are other weapons whose firing style is somewhat unclear, from a green-colored gun that can seemingly form ledges to another reddish-pink gun with crystalline spikes, but others are straightforward to understand like a grappling tool or run-of-the-mill knife.

However, the big selling point behind all these weapons (or tools, dependent on how players want to define them) is they are sentient and alive. Developer Squanch Games