Octodad and i am bread game cracker#
Octodad and i am bread game trial#

Fortunately, every mode is available from the start. All of them are difficult to control, but I ended up finding some enjoyment in Bagel Race and Zero G. Finally, Zero G adds rockets to each of the bread’s four corners, allowing for total control in the zero gravity environments.Īs much as I didn’t particularly like the plodding, frustrating story mode, I can’t help but be impressed by how differently each of the additional modes plays.

Octodad and i am bread game cracker#

Cheese Hunt features cracker bread, which is more rigid and is prone to breaking, as it focuses more on exploration. Rampage uses a baguette, which features simpler two-button control as it tries to smash as many plates and vases as possible in a strict time limit. Bagel Race switches in a round rolling bagel, adds cardboard race track pieces to the levels, and has players hitting checkpoints as quickly as possible. Though the story mode was more frustrating than fun for me, the additional modes add their own twists along with new bread types. As it is, there doesn’t seem to be any obvious structure. It’s a bit of a missed opportunity for organic difficulty scaling I can imagine there being a fast-but-difficult route to complement the slower-but-easier route. It is somewhat open in that there are multiple paths across an area and occasionally there are multiple heating elements available for toasting.

Octodad and i am bread game trial#

Getting to the end of a level with 100% edibility takes some trial and error. Toenail clippings on a pillow (ew) are hard to spot, and moldy walls aren’t clearly delineated from clean walls. It isn’t always clear what surfaces are safe. This means a lot of climbing along walls and across furniture. The main goal in I am Bread is to become toast without getting dirty or wet. It’s always sluggish to respond, it doesn’t allow any zoom control, and it’s often clipping through walls and objects in tight quarters. There is room for impressive maneuvers to be performed, but man is it hard to get to that point.Įven after coming to terms with the unintuitive controls, I never felt quite comfortable with the camera. Also, since the length and width of the slice aren’t equal, orientation can be manipulated in order to increase or decrease stride. Since it’s cut from a loaf of bread, the slice has two rounded corners those are always L1 and R1. Sometimes the top left corner on screen is controlled by L1 sometimes it’s controlled by R2.Īfter spending more time with it, some nuance does show up. Though the corners are labeled with their corresponding buttons, it doesn’t feel intuitive. It is essentially a rectangle, and it is constantly flipping and rotating. The big problem I faced early on has to do shape of the bread. By alternating which corners are anchored, the bread can walk, climb, and even jump. Holding one of the buttons will make that corner stick to a surface. Eventually, it gets better.Īs a slice of bread, each of the four corners is assigned one of the shoulder buttons. I was constantly fighting the camera in addition to the controls. I was spending a lot of time getting to the end of a level and then failing and having to start from the beginning. There was a point about halfway through when I considered giving up. I’m glad I stuck with I am Bread until the end. It can manage to be mildly entertaining at times, but it takes a lot of chewing to get to those parts. Through transition from idea to actuality, it stops being a funny joke. I picture a couple of friends sitting around, drinking, when one says, “Man, wouldn’t it be funny if we made a game where you play as a slice of bread?” Then everybody laughs and nods, because it is funny right then in that moment.īut then somebody takes the joke and runs with it, actually spending the time to make the game. I can only imagine how I am Bread came to be.