Speaking of bonuses, Clustertruck will grade you at the end of each successful stage on your performance (speed, tricks, finishing) and award you Style Points. The result is a slightly lower time bonus BUT a significantly higher air time bonus and, oh yea, you finish the damn level. Instead of rocketing forward like a flying squirrel on speed, you gotta plot out your course and make fast, but careful, decisions. A lot of Twitchers and streamers won’t want to sit still in order to gain the day, but that is the best solution in a lot of cases. As much as it sucks, my advice is to simply change your technique.
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It’s already hard enough in the PC version of Clustertruck to swivel your head and not get disoriented, but it’s damn near impossible with a Jo圜on or Pro Controller. There’s a lot of reasons for this: the game is chaotic, you end up going really fast straight to your death, and, oh yeah, the fact that you do everything with the controller means that the looking around aspect is kind of off the table. Players will get frustrated their first time through. The fact that our little Switch dude is able to keep with such a crazy amount of draw demand is nothing short of impressive, and indicative of the real power of the Switch. Not once did I think the game was chugging or struggling to keep up with what the developers, Landfall Games, was intending. On top of that, should you do the holiday DLC, you also have to look out for exploding tombstones, ghostly pulse trampolines and plenty of winter mayhem in the Christmas expansions. Besides somewhere between 20-50 trucks all doing their own thing at once, you also have various bits of scenery interacting with you, like falling rocks or collapsing bridges. It’s impressive that Clustertruck does handle itself fairly well in handheld mode, because there are a LOT of things happening on the screen at once. Wait, is that proper use of inertia? Opposite directions, same correlation, Newton’s third law…maybe that’s right. There’s a level early on where trucks start driving AT you instead of with you, and the result is…you going crazy fast. Oh, and inertia doesn’t always work the way you think it will. Players can sometimes grab the back or sides of a truck in order to save themselves, but you can’t just hang: if you touch, you gotta immediately vault, and this will sometimes launch you far, far up into the sky. For example, you get an exponential speed boost if you jump off the cab of the truck instead of the cargo. Clustertruck does exhibit and keep to some crazy rules of its own for the player. If you were totally weirded out that up meant up instead of down, you can toggle that to your heart’s content and enjoy maneuvering like a jet fighter instead of a crazy dude running on top of trucks.
However, one of the biggest things that people didn’t enjoy at launch was the lack of inversion option, and that is definitely one of the first things that I ticked in the control setup. Players who tried this on the computer and didn’t like it should keep in mind there isn’t any wacky motion controls or special stages where you jump off trucks in Mario Odyssey. Well, good news, bucko: you gotta run, jump and hang off these trucks in first person perspective and get to the damn end in one piece.įirst and foremost, although this port does contain all of the seasonal DLC and runs exceptionally well on the Switch, there is not any new content as far as I can tell. But the trucks will crash into each other and obey certain physics properties, such as occasionally flipping over, and also ignore certain ideas, such as taking flight in a ridiculous arc. Oh, the trucks are kind of just moving and driving with a singular direction in mind, and they’re not paying attention to anyone else. You need to make it to the end in one piece, and that’s it. The plot and main point of Clustertruck is simple: for whatever reason, you’re surfing on the back of a long haul truck, and you’re in a whole traffic jam of long haul trucks moving in a similar direction.
The idea of “simple premise, beautiful execution” goes a long way, and it’s something that we can see clearly in TinyBuild’s latest Switch release, Clustertruck.
Imagine if that had been a situation where it drained the battery or made things generally go wonky on your Nokia? Gaming never would have taken off. But it wasn’t just that it was the only game in town: it was well executed in spite of an incredibly simple premise. It was a game before phones had real games (at least in the US, Japan was already leagues ahead by then). The idea of a monochromatic reptile slowly filling up your very small screen while eating dots that were supposed to be fruit was the ultimate time waster. Everyone who had a cellphone prior to 2006 played Snake at some point, or at least whatever your phone’s knockoff version of Snake was.
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