Competitive dad and mom are terrible, hurling obscenities and abuse from the sidelines of the native under-10s league, however I can sympathise with the dad and mom competing in One More Second. It’s the nighttime and their awful child is as soon as once more awake and bawling its head off. Both of this half-awake pair would adore even yet another second of sleep, so these aspiring corpses roll round and flail and flap till one loses the slow-motion slapsies and will get as much as sooth the lump of congealed screams. Go on, seize a pal and sit side-by-side to find the QWOP-ish joys of parenting.
Each of the guardian’s limbs is managed individually, see, chosen by urgent the suitable button then moved with one thumbstick whereas the opposite rolls you ragdoll physique round (controllers most well-liked, obvs, however not obligatory). It is inelegant, it’s gradual, it’s clumsy, it’s precisely how I’d really feel if the child had been crying AGAIN.
I feel it’s all in good humour? Ah certain, it’s a bodily combat over not eager to rise up and hush a child, nevertheless it’s a slipshod, flappy one, the form of gestures I’ll make when somebody’s making an attempt to wake me up and I simply need sleep. I can’t learn the dialogue, so maybe there’s one thing extra sinister afoot, however the game appears playful to me. Especially given how foolish a few of the randomly-selected dad and mom and their outfits are.
Made by Uson Chen, One More Second is up for obtain on Itch. It’s pay-what-you-want with no minimal worth.
Ta for pointing this out, Alpha Beta Gamer.
