A dodge roll is one of your key moves, but with no invincibility frames and hitboxes that feel like they’re bigger than your actual character, trying to dodge an attack is as likely to get you hit as just standing there unless you anticipate it way in advance and get the hell out of the fight. Biomutant is a textbook example of what happens when the pieces don’t come together like they should.ĭespite your character’s acrobatic prowess, movement in combat feels sluggish and hit detection feels inconsistent, making moving about and avoiding all the attacks coming your way-the cornerstone of this sort of action game-unwieldy and awkward. Such a concept should be a guaranteed hit, but it’s also one that’s difficult to get just right: combat needs to be smooth, fluid, and responsive enough to let those balletic movements flow together, and it’s not easy to get that finely-tuned enough for things to be able to click into place. There’s a lot of potential here, not least of all in the setup for a flashy, acrobatic combat system that blends martial arts, gunplay, and mutant powers-think John Woo or Devil May Cry with mutant cats and otters, and you’re on the right track. As a young feline mutant with no memories of your past, you inevitably get wrapped up in this “Kung-Fu fable RPG” on a quest to save the world, one way or another.

The future of even this broken world hangs in the balance thanks to the dying Tree of Life, and six different tribes lead by six different Wung-Fu masters have different thoughts on the best path forward-adding tribal warfare to the already volatile state of things. Biomutant comes with an intriguing premise: in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are long-gone and mutant animals have taken their place, a martial art called Wung-Fu rules the day.

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