I was bring up on British funniness . It was one of the few things my founding father and I both agreed on , so I spent plenty of nights watchingMonty Python ’s Flying CircusandMr . Bean . Shows like that became formative , as I turn a love for physical drollery and absurd gag bystudying cockamamie walks . To an foreigner , it all might just look like random caper that do n’t make much sense , but there ’s an art for silliness that the British funniness scene sail through .
I plant that spirit once again inThank Goodness You ’re Here!Developed by Coal Supper , a little studio base out of Yorkshire , England , the “ slapformer ” is gleefully goofy in the same way that Monty Python is . It may not be the most compelling gameplay experience out there , but the bite - sized funniness deport some thoroughly - natured ( if puerile ) express joy through colourful toon absurdism that brought me back to my childhood for a couple of hours .
Thank Goodness You ’re Here!takes piazza in a small English town called Barnsworth that ’s filled with flakey topical anaesthetic . role player take on the theatrical role of a tiny man , with skin as jaundiced as a maize , whose occupation it is to help out around townspeople . That ’s at least what everyone seems to think his occupation is , in any case . The almost stream - of - awareness risky venture has our hero getting roped into tasks , from mowing lawns to helping a bedrid man get his grocery . A normal day in a small village , right ? Not so much .
The Ithiel Town is a slapstick vacation spot dense with sight gags , almost like an explorable Where ’s Waldo depiction . When I mow that lawn , I unwittingly murder a sentient flower proposing its dearest to another . The bedfast piece gives me a manus — literally — when his sausage - like arm extend out of his way and leads me around township . It ’s a series of surrealist laughs mix with towny humor . The biggest rise it gets out of me is when I come across a canvasser on the street publicize his cause : Bring Back Asbestos .
Your mileage will certainly change when it amount to the onslaught of joke . It can be rude , gross , and infantile — sometimes in the same breath . I really had to reach back to my youthfulness at times to get on its storey so I could express mirth at the idiomatic expression “ smacky bum seat . ” The mix of grownup and Saturday morning cartoon humor can sense mad at time , but that ’s in thespirit of Monty Python . I think the reasonableness I have it away it so much as a kid is that it felt like I was getting away with seeing something mature when I was allowed to watchLife of Brian . Thank Goodness You ’re Here!carries that same feeling , peppering cusses and potato violence between bottom jokes .
While it all work out as an interactive drollery , its moment - to - minute gameplay is more of a backdrop . I run around a town comprised of a few screens and smack things to interact with them . There are small teaser here and there , like when I need to turn a embarrass hose on by following it down a well and smack its valve , but I ’m more so a looker watching unearthly things happen in town . Those vignettes are glue together with some repetitious navigation between area that has me backtracking and revisiting visual travel gags a few too many meter . You would n’t miss out on much by just look on a long fun on YouTube like a cartoon .
Even if that ’s how you prefer to know it , Thank Goodness You ’re Hereis worth its two- to three - hr runtime if you check a special place in your pump for British sense of humor . It ’s a dumbly packed clowning routine about smal- town weirdos in a concise , goofy bundle . I ca n’t promise that you ’ll discover it mirthful , but I can confirm that you ’re in for something whole different .
give thanks Goodness You ’re Here!launches on August 1 for PlayStation 4 , PS5 , Nintendo Switch , and PC .
