Stick it to the Man might look a little rough around the edges and show its Unity seams, but it's a solidly written and hilarious little adventure game that's well worth playing.
A regular guy named Ray wakes up to find a large arm sticking out of his head from a parasitic brain slug. On the run from government agents, …
Stick it to the Man might look a little rough around the edges and show its Unity seams, but it's a solidly written and hilarious little adventure game that's well worth playing.
A regular guy named Ray wakes up to find a large arm sticking out of his head from a parasitic brain slug. On the run from government agents, the player controls Ray as he tries to escape a menacing fate. The player can use the arm (basically a sticky hand) and read minds, grab onto objects to latch and zoom toward in the scene and also collect objects as stickers to stick onto other objects for humorous results. These tend to play into each other as the player can read minds and produce objects based on thoughts for the game, whether it's sleeping to get past guards or a pile of donuts shaped like 000 to increase pasta output.
Apart from the adventure game elements, the player can also manage basic platforming and stealth. It's a little less interesting than the other mechanics but it's not a gamebreaker. The context for the arm, though, gets a little sticky (at least on the controller) when it comes to managing an inventory axis, a movement axis, and a sticker use axis all at once and I found myself juggling some very odd input remaps.
That said, these are minor gripes with regards to the game's plot and progression. Over ten chapters will be stuffed with quirky characters and their strange minds, evoking a Psychonauts-esque humor that got me laughing out loud on more than one occasion (i.e. playing bagpipes by slapping pipes on a snoring man in plaid) and voice acted fairly well. The aesthetic of the game is fairly gnarly looking, with a cartoony ugliness that gets matched to a sticker-type feel that matches the gameplay. The music is funky and doesn't get particularly old, even right on down to the opening song.
Stick it to the Man is a fun little trip of a game, with good comedy and adventure gameplay that's a little more deductive than frustrating and manages through some odd control schemes.
