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My rapid response to Animal Use Protocol, elicited by means of a picture of a grim-looking monkey holding a mouse, was what you would possibly count on: Why is that monkey holding a mouse? I used to be curious, because the saying goes—however after studying the sport is being developed by The Brotherhood, very out of the blue I used to be .
The Brotherhood is an indie studio primarily based in South Africa whose earlier releases embrace Stasis, Stasis: Bone Totem, and Beautiful Desolation—all of them isometric point-and-click adventures, decidedly unusual and greater than a little bit creepy. The Stasis video games (and the free prequel chapter, Cayne) are straight-up horror affairs, whereas Beautiful Desolation is one thing of a departure—not a lot disagreeable as simply balls-out bizarre. None of them have been breakout hits however I dig their vibe, and so after I noticed The Brotherhood was taking a shot at a first-person sport, I needed to know extra.
Animal Use Protocol is a wholly new factor for The Brotherhood, unconnected to any of its previous work, nevertheless it does have one factor in frequent with these earlier video games: It appears bizarre. You play as Penn, a super-intelligent chimpanzee armed with a “gravity manipulation machine” who’s main a lab animal jailbreak; your pal isn’t a mouse however really a rat named Trip. It’s not clear whether or not Trip can also be super-smart, however he appears to be carrying a Tamagotchi on his ass, which—completely speculatively—I may see getting used as a communications machine.
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Superficially it seems like the premise for a cute Disney manufacturing—The Big Adventures of Bongo and Mr Nibbles—however Animal Use Protocol isn’t some sort of Madagascarian do-over. The sport is about in a “nightmarish facility” the place issues have gone very, very mistaken, and “each nook hides new terror.” And not everybody needs to flee, because it seems: As you attempt to discover your strategy to freedom, you will be “relentlessly stalked by a monstrous chimera of experiments gone mistaken.”
It’s a bizarre one, proper? It’s clearly too far out to make any judgments as as to whether Animal Use Protocol shall be good—it isn’t due till someday in 2026, on Steam and GOG—however I’m undeniably intrigued. I’m additionally only a small, tiny bit nervous that one thing completely terrible goes to occur to these little child penguins. Oh, I do hope not.
(Oh, and for the report: Trip is positively carrying a Tamagotchi on his ass.)
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