From bleak sci-fi to kinky bondage sex-comedy, and now an 80s glam-tinged highway journey RPG? You undoubtedly can’t accuse Love Conquers All Games of being one trick ponies. I’ve seen Get In The Car, Loser! doing the rounds on Twitter for some time, with a good bit of buzz surrounding it, however solely now does it have a store page up on Itch. It’s the newest from the creators of Ladykiller In A Bind, and jogs my memory in equal components of Final Fantasy 15 and Valkyrie Profile – it’s due out later this 12 months.
Reminding me a little bit of EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER (solely loads much less gross and body-horror-ish), the principle thrust of Get In The Car, Loser!’s story appears to be that typically you simply have to proactively kick evil’s arse whereas being homosexual. Cultists are attempting to re-summon the Machine Devil, so it’s as much as 4 queer oddballs to go on a highway journey, and beat up a complete lot of bizarre machine-monsters alongside the way in which. Love Conquers All describe the fight engine as an “active time battle system inspired by classic and modern JPRGS”, and I’m desperate to see the way it handles.
Being a highway journey with a agency purpose, Get In The Car guarantees to be a unique breed of RPG, with “no sidequests, no maps, no codex entries”. You’ve received a vacation spot, a protracted highway, and fights, pit-stops and different occasions actually signposted on the way in which. There will in fact be branching dialogue choices in your back-seat chattering, and character fight builds are largely decided by their gear, which ought to hopefully open up some strategic choices. I’m all the time up for a great JRPG, and something as offbeat (and vibrant) as this one places it firmly on my radar.
Get In The Car, Loser! has no agency launch date pinned down, however Love Conquers All reckon that it’ll be out earlier than the 12 months’s finish. You can get a couple of extra particulars and join updates on the official site here.
