Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip is a silly little game where you, a bored child left with your uncle while your parents have gone on summer holiday (leaving you behind to go to summer school because you’re bad or stupid or something), decide to get a driving licence, a car, and then modify it so you can drive off into space. Obviously. And just LOOK at the art style. Look at it.
It plays out as an open world game where you collect items of rubbish that you can spend on car upgrades, and find money to buy items, weapons and so on. There are missions where you have to find stuff or go places, and loads of weird characters to meet. Like the guy who is clearly burning alive on the beach but refuses to listen to you saying he’s fine until you return later to find his charred remains and nick his sunglasses. For the guy in a back alley who wants you to help him do crimes, but not really bad crimes, just middling crimes. Or the kid who fences stolen cars. Or the fast food seller who is legally bound to give you “beach fries” for free whenever you ask, which you then take home to feed your fish with. It’s all very silly.
As a game, it’s a bit flawed. The physics are a bit wonky and the collision detection is terrible. Platforming is harder than it really needs to be partly because of the camera and partly because you can’t gauge depth properly. Some of the missions are a bit too vague to understand what you need to do, and the minigames (like yoga and football) are fun for a while but tedious when you have to do them enough times to hit a quota and complete a task.
That said, it is such an absurd game it really does have to be experienced. If only for the strange squashy pets you can “make” that follow you round for seemingly no purpose.
