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Losing to a boss doesn't send you back to the trash heap, either you get to respawn right outside the boss room. The boss fights make for a nice change of pace and reward you for being thorough and collecting the firepower upgrades.

After the opening 15 minutes or so, you'll be scurrying around the ship at a brisk clip. Another key element of exploring the ship and keeping deaths from being too costly is the abundance of unlockable shortcuts. The raccoon you play as gets some serious horizontal distance on its jump, and movement feels really solid, despite the fact you can't use the direction pad at all. In terms of its action, Trash Quest focuses more on platforming than shooting, which makes for a nice change of pace after playing something like Metroid Dread. Over the course of the game, you'll earn more jumps and improvements to your weapon, but nothing too flashy. Initially, you have a basic gun attack and a single jump. Given that the game leans heavy to the linear side, there seems to be an expected path that players will end up taking. Fans of the genre will recognize the trappings right away, but essentially you make your way through the five different areas of the ship, defeating a boss, and acquiring new abilities in each area that help you traverse the next one. With essentially no filler at all, this brisk romp through the corridors of a spaceship makes for a quaint but satisfying way to pass an hour or two.Ī few lines of exposition reveal little in the way of story, but it's probably a good thing that Trash Quest gets straight to the point. It's a funny name since the only major reference to literal garbage is the fact that the game's sole respawn point is indeed a trash receptacle, and of course the main character being a raccoon.

Fuck yes.įor fans of: Boston Manor, Neck Deep, Creeperĭon't You Feel Amazing? is released on August 13 via Hopeless.Trash Quest is a micro-Metroidvania in the vein of Gato Roboto and Xeodrifter, except smaller and with less backtracking. At its very best, though, Don’t You Feel Amazing? is thrilling, providing both an adrenaline rush and an answer to the question posed by its title. Conscious of the fact these opportunities only come around once, they’ve endeavoured to show listeners everything that’s in their arsenal at once. In the here and now, Trash Boat have made the album they wanted and needed to make.

Some moments don't explode as well as others, but these are made in the pursuit of ambition, and the refinement of knowing what’s essential and what isn’t comes with greater experience.

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True, Cannibal, despite its feral title, is more of nibbler than full on flesh-eater, but closer Maladaptive Daydreaming is straight out of the Linkin Park playbook – dynamic, driving, utterly irresistible. Vertigo shares the title-track’s mix of the boisterous tinged with the slightly bizarre, while Idios is like three tracks for the price of one, all of them excellent and catchy as hell. It’s probably a good thing, then, that at this point we’re teetering into the album’s latter half, which is the one fans haven’t heard ahead of release – and sports many of the highlights. And then there’s Love Without Needing, which interrupts the flow of things, sounding distractingly close to Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You. Bad Entertainment is similarly energetic, with Wargasm singer Milkie Way clearly understanding the brief, delivering a biting guest appearance that ignites its latter half. Silence Is Golden sounds like it was designed by a year 2000 algorithm, combining Britpop swagger thanks to goading delivery and confrontational lyrics (‘ Better watch your mouth or I’ll knock you out’), before giving way to a down-tuned breakdown that’s pure nu-metal bliss. It’s certainly not an isolated case here. “It’s the first time I’ve felt that our music has mass appeal,” vocalist Tobi Duncan said of the title track during Trash Boat’s K! cover interview. The sound of two sensibilities convening, it’s big and bold even when conveying vulnerability, yet in a wonky guitar line that builds beautifully but not obviously it’s infused with a weirdness that suggests Trash Boat want success on their own terms. It also encapsulates the best of what this album has to offer. The opening title-track, as you’re likely already aware, is a juggernaut that was written in a day but will linger in the memory infinitely longer.

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