Biomutant was: Elden Ring but with a followable story!

On a whim I decided to try Biomutant on stream. It looked colorful, engaging, and not at all like something I would bother to finish ever. Boy was I wrong! I ended up devoting hours of my life into fourteen sessions of adorable mounts, goofy quests, and inexplicable hamster Elvis impersonators.

The themes of “evil corporation killed the planet and left it behind for the mutated animal remnants” are extremely heavy-handed but honestly knowing the general public I feel they had to be that explicit and hammer the point that hard for it to not be… I don’t know, ignored completely. One thing social media and working retail has taught me is there are a shitload of people out there who do not want to think about anything at all and refuse context like it is poison.

Anyway, this isn’t an in-depth analysis of this game by any means. The combat was tedious after the first four hours. A lot of it was grinding for unnecessary items and creatures that padded it out for no reason. I don’t care if the IMDB credit says otherwise, the narrator is absolutely the same droll guy from Stanley Parable, they even have the same dry humor.

I feel like if some of the grinding was cut out, the combat was refined just a smidge more, and the world map was a bit smaller, that this game would have done much better finding a devoted audience. As is, I’m glad I played it and don’t regret my time spent, but yeeeeah not one I’d recommend off the cuff without a million caveats.

LINK: Final YouTube Playlist of all 14 videos

FUTURE STUFF: Next on the docket, according to this poll is Thank Goodness You’re Here and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening. I figure I’ll alternate between the two until they’re finished.

Also, when I’ve finished setting up the install, I plan to start doing one day a week a Retro Streaming session where I just poke around Arcanum for the first time in ten plus years. That game was extremely important to me when it first came out over twenty years ago and I want to see how I feel about it now.

I’ve been super sick for the last week and a half so this newsletter was A Time to get done and out. Regardless, thanks for reading and watching!