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Jan 26, 2023 - Day 26 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 33

Game: Overgrowth
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Oct 17, 2017
Library Date: Mar 12, 2018
Unplayed: 1781 days (4y10m14d)
Playtime: 19m

In the mid-2000's, I bought my first Mac. I picked up some games along the way, and one of them was called Lugaru.

Lugaru was an indie third-person game in which you were an anthropomorphic giant fighting rabbit. I did not care for it.

I opened Overgrowth, and saw "Lugaru" listed as a game campaign option, but bypassed it and went for the main Overgrowth campaign, and... once again, I am a giant running, jumping, and fighting rabbit.

The graphics are middling, the controls feel sloppy, the character movement ungainly. The ragdoll physics are OK, but the actual fighting is frustrating.

The storyline is... there, but holds little interest for me. I do not feel any care for the generic rabbits or their plight, and forced myself to keep going to hit fifteen minutes.

I got to 19 minutes, because I literally got distracted by a different game on my iPad for a few minutes.

Overgrowth feels like a sandbox game, with a storyline awkwardly shoehorned in, and as it turns out, is a sequel to Lugaru. Almost 20 years later, I still do not care for it.

A lot of people seem to love Overgrowth, but for me it's just:

2: Meh

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