“Who’s the final one? I’m the final one!”, The Final Employee‘s oafish, silly protagonist always repeats after placing a bundle in a chute or blowing a robotic up with an EMP blast. Kurt is seemingly fairly pleased with being the titular character, which the sport by no means actually explains. He’s the one human employee at an Amazon fulfilment heart form of place and robots are seen doing his actual job. Why is he there then? A solution isn’t ever actually given, which tracks contemplating how weak and pointless the sport’s story is. These adjectives can simply as simply be levied on the gameplay, sadly.
The Final Employee units up its flimsy premise instantly. Kurt lives and works at a Jüngle fulfilment heart, which is an apparent play on Amazon. Whereas there have been as soon as a whole bunch of staff, everybody else was fired. Kurt nonetheless works there for some cause. One of many different fired staff was Rosa, Kurt’s pregnant girlfriend. Kurt determined he didn’t need to go together with her and that it will be higher to dwell by himself within the distribution heart as a result of Kurt is a monumental imbecile. Don’t be like Kurt.
Whereas going about his existence, Kurt is contacted by an activist by way of a small fowl drone. The voice tells him that Jüngle must be stopped and he’s the one one who can do it. Why? Once more, I don’t know. The voice appearing (other than Kurt’s annoying, dopey voice) is rattling good, however every thing else about The Final Employee is the alternative. The dialogue is stuffed with pointless swearing, the banter is aggravating, and the script fully fails at saying something of substance, although it seems to attempt to take action. The plot culminates in three minute-long endings that, fairly merely, blow. The Final Employee is a story recreation with an impressively crummy narrative. Two of the endings massively contradict one another as nicely, which form of pissed me off.
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There are a number of kinds of “gameplay” included. Kurt will typically must do shifts the place he grabs a particular bundle, inspects it to verify it’s the correct dimension and weight, checks for harm, after which both ships it out or throws it in recycling. That is at all times the very same, which is to say it’s extraordinarily boring. After placing a bundle in a chute, it’s a must to watch for some time earlier than the map will inform you the place the following one is. Fortunately, you may normally simply ship one or two packages after which simply go away the sport working till the shift ends.
However the above sections are the least of The Final Employee‘s issues. The opposite primary kinds of gameplay are made up of clumsily sneaking previous robots and “fixing” horrible “puzzles”. The stealth is lavatory customary and tedious. The puzzles simply require you to match 9 flippable blocks to a picture, which the sport refers to as hacking. That is much more tedious and uninteresting than the stealth. There’s additionally a minigame that jogged my memory of ship segments in Insurgent Assault, plus an endgame part the place you smash issues whereas on-rails. In-game story sequences typically require you to face nonetheless whereas characters ramble or stroll ahead (and solely ahead) at a snail’s tempo.
The Insurgent Assault sections are the very best factor right here, however they have a tendency to go on too lengthy. Kurt’s solely device is the Jünglegun, which is principally only a gravity gun that has a couple of further capabilities, together with the aforementioned “hacker” and EMP that can be utilized to dispatch robots. At the very least, for many of the recreation. Partway by way of it randomly turns into much less helpful so that you just’re pressured to deal with the stealth encounters. The Final Employee is nearly by no means any enjoyable.
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Whilst you would possibly anticipate a story recreation to be braindead simple to get by way of, this one has some atrocious issue spikes. At one level, it’s a must to use the EMP to take out a bunch of robots with out dying. It’s not arduous, the design is simply questionable and it’s the one time the sport calls for you to shoot with any talent. This ends in it being irritating. Then there are sequences the place it’s a must to resolve two of the block puzzles on a timer. Because the puzzles really feel random and arbitrary, that is additionally massively irritating at occasions.
However the actual assessments of persistence are towards the tip of the sport. It’s a must to sneak previous two giant robots in a protracted hallway with out getting hit and it’s completely depressing. I jumped into the menu and regarded for a technique to skip this because it’s one of many extra terrible segments I’ve seen in a recreation just lately. Then you’re pressured to unravel two block puzzles whereas avoiding one in every of these robots. And naturally you must resolve each puzzles on a strict time restrict. I’d solely want The Final Employee on somebody I hated. These segments take a nasty recreation and make it a lot worse for no good cause.
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Visually, the sport seems to be prefer it got here out within the late ’00s. It’s simply ugly. Textures are low decision, fashions are undetailed. And motion doesn’t fare a lot better. Kurt strikes in a hovering automobile that’s horribly sluggish at its default pace. You possibly can increase, however it’s on a cooldown for, once more, no good cause. This makes the hallway the place you’re sneaking previous two large robots much more infuriatingly terrible than it already was. Except for the voice appearing, the one factor I appreciated about The Final Employee is that it’s solely four-and-a-half hours lengthy, which was an act of mercy.
I don’t usually wish to say I hate the video games I assessment, however I hated The Final Employee. It’s quick, ugly, poorly written, and constructed out of tedious, boring gameplay segments full with moronic issue spikes. I’m glad that I don’t should play it once more and I’d strongly suggest that you just keep away from it to the very best of your skill. Humorously, that is my final assessment for PC Invasion. What a be aware to finish on. Take it sleazy!
