But unfortunately about halfway into the game the levels turn into one-room arena matches, and several are just in-engine cutscenes! They wisely saved the most impressive level for last, but the whole second half of the game feels like a rush job. Overgrowth’s big addition to the Lugaru formula is wallrunning, and the best levels in the game have large parkour platforming sections punctuated by sneak/combat encounters. Overgrowth’s engine supports much larger levels than Lugaru and some of the stages are quite impressive. He starts out stealthily taking out as many enemies as he can before someone spots him and raises the alarm, at which point the game turns into a desperate fight involving large amounts of leaping and climbing as you try to take out your enemies piecemeal to avoid being mobbed. The basic flow of the shorter Lugaru levels is Turner walking into an area with enemies patrolling around ruins and other obstacles to hide behind. Overgrowth includes the entire 21 level campaign from the original Lugaru remastered with the new engine’s assets, as well as the 29-level Overgrowth campaign. This the first and only level in the game where you’ll be dueling with the new cat rapier weapon, so you’re going to have to learn its intricacies on the fly… ha, I kid! Just do the flying kick over and over until you win. After nine years of early access, complete with a period of “stress testing” the combat system, how is it that nobody noticed this? Throwing a perfect roundhouse kick in a large brawl leaves you open to get punched in the back of the head, but a successful flying kick not only does more damage than any other move, it bounces you away from the group to safety. It’s supposed to be the most risky move, and you can injure yourself by screwing it up, but once you get the hang of it you not only dominate everything in the game, it becomes the safest move to use, especially against large groups. …or just use the one best move in the game, the flying kick. In open combat the AI adapts if you lean on a particular combination too much, so you need to be constantly switching up your fighting style… Fortunately most levels start out with you having the drop on enemies and you can use stealth kills to whittle their numbers down. With the exception of one move, you’re on equal footing with other rabbits in combat, and fighting groups is extremely dangerous. The ragdoll physics engine plays a major role in the damage output where a flailing enemy that lands on soft grass can jump to their feet and keep fighting, but one who lands on his neck against hard stone is out of the fight. Likewise with RMB depending on the timing you might simply block a punch, or if you time it just right you’ll grab the enemy and flip them onto the ground, leaving them open to being kicked while they’re down. If you’re standing still you throw a punch, if you’re moving to the side you throw a roundhouse kick, etc. You hold LMB and the game will attack as soon as the enemy is in range. It’s a unique contextual timing-based system with LMB for attack and RMB for defend. The combat in Overgrowth is quick and brutal. Being a rabbit, Turner can leap incredibly long distances from a standstill, producing fights that look like those Hong Kong wire-fu movies that were all the rage after The Matrix came out. The game plays out as a third-person parkour, stealth, and hand-to-hand combat game with a heavy emphasis on its ragdoll physics engine. You play Turner, a kung-fu rabbit who is as dangerous as he is gullible, following a nonstop quest for revenge that has him alternating between smashing his enemies’ skulls and mercy-killing his friends. Life is a brutal fight for survival in an amoral world filled with carnivores who have the ability to talk to you before eating you alive. Overgrowth takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals with a distinctly Watership Down tone. So after all these years of experimentation, is the final game as fantastic as everyone hoped? In fact, one of their marketing experiments ended up becoming the massively successful Humble Bundle. Overgrowth was a pioneer in the “early access” concept of doing alpha testing through preorder customers. It’s a sequel to Lugaru: The Rabbit’s foot, one of my favorite games years ago that I included in my (now out of date) top 100 indie game list.
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Nine years in the making, Overgrowth is one of the all-time most hotly anticipated games of the PC indie scene.
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