Justin Roiland And The Complicated Art Of Creating Talking Guns With Leaky Butts

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There’s a TV on in your house at the beginning of High on Life. On it is a surrealist ad for a nonsensical product called This™ - the kind of Interdimensional cable commercial Rick and Morty would briefly gawk at before flipping channels. When it ends, a weird little guy named Kenny appears and introduces a movie, Cryptkeeper-style. It’s 1994’s Tammy and the T-Rex starring Denise Richards and a then-unknown Paul Walker. Just like RoboCop, Walker is a high school football player that gets mauled by a lion and has his brain transplanted into a robot dinosaur. Alright, maybe not just like RoboCop. Baffled, I watch for about five minutes before I look back at Justin Roiland and Squanch Games EP Matty Studivan - who have been watching me watch TV for the first half of my play session - to ask if this is a real movie. “Ya,” Roiland says. “You can watch the entire thing in the game. It’s insane.” At this point I’m not sure if he’s referring to movie itself or the fact that the studio licensed multiple full-length feature films for the sake of a very stupid, very missable joke.

I already love High on Life. The thing you don’t get from the trailers and clips they’ve shown so far is just how fully realized the world is. The jokes and dialogue are just one piece of a whole that creates a world so bizarre and absurd you can’t help but let your guard down and just enjoy the ride. Squanch Games has created an M-rated amusement park here, and its crass, self-referential humor is not only fitting, it's totally enjoyable. As our own Rhiannon Bevan wrote in her Gamescom preview, “Out of context on Twitter, these lines might make you roll your eyes, but the stupid world you’re immersed in makes it hard not to smile.”

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