Ah, right here we’re doing the identical factor over once more – and but, this one is totally different. Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son is breaking the loop of film sequels sticking to the identical media format and can as a substitute be a digital actuality journey game.
You can see what’s previous and what’s new, plus some cute little rodent buddies, within the trailer.
Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son will, because the identify suggests, observe Phil Connors Jr., who falls into the identical time loop as his father earlier than him, repeating a single day again and again.
“He’s trapped back home in Punxsutawney, the small town he thought he’d escaped, where he can’t even get a decent cappuccino,” says the game’s website, “and he’s going to have to repeat the day over and over until he learns the true value of friends and family.”
Ironically, I really feel like I’ve seen this “unlikeable man learns to be a decent person” plot a couple of times or 100 occasions earlier than, proper all the way down to complaining about espresso being shorthand for “self-obsessed and shallow.”
Still, it’s being made by Tequila Works, who co-developed The Sexy Brutale, one thing that our Mat Jones called “Groundhog Day, the game.” Apparently it was good, too – Edwin Evans-Thirlwell additionally put it on his game of the year list for us – so handing them the precise Groundhog Day game appears greater than applicable.
They say that Like Father Like Son will contain navigating your approach out of the time loop via “puzzles and branching narrative gameplay,” and although it’s a Sony joint it’ll be coming to HCT Vive and Oculus Rift someday this 12 months.
Crucially, within the precise Groundhog Day ceremony yesterday, Punxsutawney Phil predicted that spring can be coming quickly, so bless that cute little land beaver and cross your fingers they’re proper.
