Mount Your Friends Review
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Sexual innuendo! Who doesnât like it? Well, people who are kinda awkward about the whole âcrotch-in-your-faceâ thing Mount Your Friends has going for it. Also, itâs not really implicit when the game has you controlling a dude in a speedo grabbing other similarly dressed dudes and climbing them in a rather jittery fashion. Anyhow, this is what the game focuses on â two players, time limit and a whole lot of disturbingly readily available âathletesâ climbing on top of one another. Bear with me, itâs much better than it sounds.
In the last decade or so, hot seat multiplayer took a step back and let online multiplayer to take the spotlight. This isnât an issue in and of itself, but most developers decided to either make hot seat available only on consoles or, even worse, ditch it altogether in titles that were a natural fit. However, it would seem that more and more games that get released on Steam bring hot seat with them. Mount Your Friends is guilty of doing this too, and we can only sing praise to it for that reason. See, this game is built not to be played with a stranger over the Intrawebs, but with a pal whoâs easily made uncomfortable by your in-game crotchgrabbing skills. In all seriousness, though, if you can disregard a couple of⦠wobbly⦠things on the characters, youâre in for quite a laugh with each and every game.Â
The clever thing about Mount Your Friends is its surprising elegance in conveying gameplay to the player. There are no levels, per se. The game just places you in front of a strangely content goat and tells you to climb the bugger. You do so, only to set a new target to the opposing team. Once the other player does so too, itâs your turn to overcome the newly grown mountain of bodies again. This switching goes around until one player is unable to top the last record. Why is this elegant? Because thereâs no content to wade through and there is nothing but pure gameplay to keep the players at it. Itâs just a single âarenaâ, so to say, where the gamers create their own kicks and laughs â and thatâs what makes it the perfect party game. Even better, there are additional game modes to increase its replayability and amusement level when there are more than two pals at your place. Naturally, the online multiplayer is also available for the more introvert gamers among us.
This is disturbing in all the wrong ways.
The one thing that had me worried about how well Mount Your Friends would translate to Steam is how the controls might be handled. I can confirm that this was nicely translated into the new ecosystems and that the mouse/keyboard combo does wonders when it comes to precisely controlling your chapâs limbs. Some might argue that itâs easier to play with a controller, but this is not the case with me. Itâs all about personal preference, in the end, and we can only be thankful that this gameâs rather unorthodox control system translated nicely to PC. Regarding the visuals, thereâs nothing new here, and the game looks exactly the same as it did back on X360. This is not a bad thing, mind you, as there really isnât much one could do to upgrade the style that works really well with this game. The sounds are the technical detail of the game, however, as the slapping sounds and unfathomable weak punches youâll clumsily land every once in a while make the whole thing even funnier than it already is. Mount Your Friends will also probably work on a week-old pie if you manage to get it installed on the damned thing. This guarantees that the game is playable on a very wide range of computing machines â in return, its low, low price also makes it an extremely desirable thing to buy. These two traits are something most people who find schlong-wrestling interesting will definitely want to consider. And yes, I am so, so sorry for making you read that sentence.
In case your randomly generated human climbers get to you after a while, you can always turn them into zombies or unholy Cthlhu spawn to amuse you again. The options are limitless! Actually, no, they arenât, and thereâs a good chance youâll find yourself in short supply of stupid stuff to wear. This is really the only thing I resent in Mount Your Friends. And implementing Steam Workshop would certainly go a long way towards guaranteeing even more replayability here. Sadly, I cannot see that happening as thereâs very little in the way of Steam integration available here. And while the whole thing might get stale soon if you donât have a pal to play with, this is still a very good investment that will amuse you every once in a while.
Finally, Mount Your Friends serves us an experience like no other and due to that fact alone deserves a place in everybodyâs gaming library. Naturally, this is the game you want to play with as many people as is humanely possible, so itâs the perfect choice for those of us who are hotseat-starved in these dark years. If youâre an awkward person who dislikes seeing dongs while playing, I suggest avoiding it, though.