Garfield: Escape from Monday Is a 3D Platformer That's All About Lasagna…and Nightmares | IGN Preview

The feline slacker, Garfield, on with his eternal emotion of lasagna and existential hatred of the commencement of the enactment week, is nary alien to video games. Whether that's games focusing connected exploring his location for trinkets, taking connected trivia and enactment challenges, oregon adjacent having a spell astatine kart-racing action, it seems similar Garfield and friends person done it all. But wherever the upcoming Garfield: Escape from Monday tries thing antithetic is putting the slacker feline successful a caller action-platformer wherever he'll person to navigate a imagination satellite loaded to the brim with his favourite foods, on with immoderate unsavory ones to woody with.

We precocious got immoderate extended hands-on clip with developer OSome Studio's upcoming Garfield platformer, which takes the titular location feline done immoderate bizarre nightmares and foodscapes. Along with maneuvering done immoderate hair-raising encounters and taking connected immoderate unusual powers to combat rogue vegetables looking to enactment him down, we got to spot conscionable however Escape from Monday volition instrumentality retired successful the rotund housepet’s weird and immense catalog of video crippled adventures.

Veggies Cause Nightmares?

On a seemingly mean Monday, Garfield decides to drown his play malaise successful lasagna that his owner, Jon, has prepared. Unfortunately, helium realizes excessively precocious it’s a steadfast vegetable-filled lasagna made from a look by TV big Chef Monday. After sinking into a nutrient coma, Garfield awakens successful a unusual imagination satellite rooted successful his infinite emotion of nutrient and television, but infested by nutrient monsters and visions of an evil Chef Monday taunting the feline grouch - and escaping this nightmare hellscape is Garfield’s main nonsubjective successful this game.

It's a precise wacky premise by Garfield standards, but the conception inactive plays good to the witty, deadpan wit that the comics and animated TV bid did truthful well. Throughout his travel successful dreamland, Garfield volition person immoderate backup from his friends, specified arsenic Jon and Arlene, but volition besides contend with nightmare versions of caller and different acquainted faces. As Garfield has to woody with much escalating encounters, he'll present his signature deadpan commentary, which truly leans into a self-aware instrumentality connected a video crippled platformer. Garfield volition adjacent poke amusive astatine acquainted crippled cliches and adjacent his spotty attempts astatine being a kart racer. One signifier adjacent sees Garfield effort his manus astatine recreating the infamous Flappy Bird game, which besides turned retired to beryllium a spot of a situation to clear.

While Garfield has dabbled successful platformers before, Escape from Monday is easy the astir oddball and over-the-top of them all.“

While Garfield has dabbled successful platformers before, Escape from Monday is easy the astir oddball and over-the-top of them all. Set crossed aggregate worlds that mash up nutrient styles and tv genres, Garfield: Escape from Monday goes for a reasonably acquainted 3D platformer setup. Though Garfield is simply a dilatory and lazy sofa murphy successful the existent world, wrong this imagination world, he's overmuch much of a spry video crippled quality that tin gracefully leap and dash crossed platforms and immoderate set-piece encounters. It does thin into the collectathon benignant of a 3D platformer, which means you'll request to drawback arsenic overmuch nutrient and hidden portions of lasagna successful each signifier to gain other recognition to marque progress.

Cat Costumes FTW

Our hands-on clip with Escape From Monday focused connected stages wherever Garfield's peculiar imagination power-ups are unlocked and acceptable to use. Much similar classical Super Mario Bros, Garfield tin drawback peculiar costumes that assistance him abilities that are specially tuned for each world. In the workplace world, garfield donned the Turkey suit, which gave immoderate added airtime to scope further distances. In the mash-up candyland/beach world, Garfield gains a peculiar surfer costume that lets him streak crossed water, thrust up waterfalls, and grind the rails. And successful the Wild West satellite overrun by rootlike monsters, Garfield tin crook into a cowboy to usage his lasso to tame chaotic foes and adjacent grapple to higher surfaces.

The exploration of each signifier is speedy and snappy, which taps into the aforesaid vigor arsenic aboriginal 3D platformers similar Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie. While combat is mostly beauteous light, focusing connected Garfield's kicking and leap attacks to get past foes, the existent amusive comes with however you tin maneuver the prototypical grumpy feline crossed these stages. Playing arsenic Garfield successful this discourse offers immoderate oddly endearing moments passim his video crippled adventure. It's amusive to spot Garfield and his lazy oafish demeanor trying to persevere done it each – and the crippled adjacent lets you person Garfield play the slouch by dilatory crawling done stages.

The stages wherever Garfield tin chopped escaped with these powers are wherever Escape from Monday stands out, and they play into the dreamlike ambiance arsenic these weird levels gradually go much outlandish. One item was a signifier acceptable successful the formation world, wherever Garfield had to dash done areas adjacent parts waterworld and candyland, grinding connected rails portion drifting done pirate dens and underground caverns. Every 3D platformer worthy its brackish has immoderate signifier of h2o stage, and Escape from Monday is already looking to travel that contented beauteous well.

The Western stages were besides a delight, allowing Garfield to tame immoderate aggravated surviving eggplants and teardrop done obstacles connected a controlled rampage. These stages besides showcase the much cinematic moments successful Escape from Monday, and the mine-cart platforming sequences play good with item and consciousness of standard portion besides paying homage to Donkey Kong Country.

Just Another Manic Monday

The benignant of wit and vibes that travel with a accepted Garfield communicative acceptable good with an action-platformer, and Escape from Monday truly brings that peculiar charm to a three-dimensional space. That said, it’s not precisely groundbreaking. There are acquainted tropes and beats you've apt seen successful galore different games respective times over. Moreover, Garfield’s deadpan code tin get a spot grating aft agelong stretches of high-energy platforming sections. Still, developer OSome Studio makes a valiant effort to adhd assortment to these encounters.

One peculiar broadside enactment that was a bully astonishment were trips to the imagination mentation of Garfield's home. As you cod lasagna and different items scattered crossed stages, you'll gain immoderate other rewards that unlock mislaid furnishings that you tin spot backmost wherever it belongs. As you people precocious connected each stage, further items volition unlock successful the arbuckle residence, and you tin crook it into much of a hangout spot successful betwixt missions that tin beryllium decorated astatine your leisure.

Effectively capturing the vibes of Garfield tin beryllium a existent situation to propulsion disconnected well, but Garfield: Escape from Monday is shaping up to beryllium a worthy summation to the lovable slacker’s room of interactive adventures. Much similar the caller Bubsy 4D, Escape from Monday is beauteous acquainted erstwhile it comes to the operation and formula, but that’s seemingly by design, arsenic recapturing the amusive of 3D platformers from a simpler clip is precise overmuch successful benignant these days. Luckily, his caller Garfield escapade backs up coagulated fundamentals with snappy platforming enactment and a chill hook that showcases the endearing sourpuss successful a amusive and breathtaking way. It mightiness not reinvent the genre, but that’s okay, and arsenic Garfield volition archer you immoderate time of the week, there’s thing incorrect with a small comfortableness food. As agelong arsenic it’s not steadfast rootlike lasagna connected a Monday morning.