If you like your shooters to lean heavily into the obscene, High on Life might just be for you. We recently had a chance to play SquanchGames' vibrant game. Here's what we thought... HighonLife Xbox
to the service as well, but both were delayed into the first half of 2023 back in May. With no pressure intended, but most likely felt by the teams, it's fallen to High on Life and Pentiment to carry the Xbox Game Pass banner to glory over the next couple of months. After spending some time with both games recently, though, I don't think they should be too worried..."Look how shootable I look; I look so shootable," some random alien kid in a sewer sings."Go ahead, do it...
From the session I played, the protagonist was silent, with only the alien gun doing all of the talking, and it loved to comment on almost everything I came across. The game opened in a normal-looking house, aside from the big potty-mouthed purple alien sitting on the couch, as our character was getting ready to become an alien-hunty bounty hunter. The one mission saw me find my way into the town's sewers to a ghetto-like area in search of a bug-style alien gangster.
The vibrancy of the alien world extends to the combat as well, with both your strange living gun and the enemies shooting brightly coloured balls of goo at each other. Combat in High on Life feels very similar in style and tone to, aside from the fact that your gun talks to you throughout. Once you get the knife, which also has its own colourful personality, you can use it to tether around the world while causing enemies' heads to explode from your goo gun.
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