Sure the gameplay is easy enough to just pick up and play, and the controls are super easy to get used to with just a few buttons controlling every action you’re ever going to make, but the challenge this game offers can sometimes get so intense that you’ll be needing to pry yourself away for a few minutes to calm down… or at least I did. Whilst Clustertruck may seem like nothing more than simplified platforming, it is certainly not a game that you want to approach light-heartedly. Each World has its own specific theme with players required to master Desert, Forest and Winter worlds before moving on to the more exciting and frustrating Laser and Sci-Fi worlds amongst a few others, including an ultimate boss level at the end of the final world, Hell. In all, there are nine different stages, or ‘Worlds’, with ten levels to conquer in each.
Whilst this may sound a little random and rather simple, there is no taking away just how enjoyable this game actually is – or just how frustrating it can become. The idea of Clustertruck is a simple one you jump from truck to truck whilst avoiding contact with the floor, and indeed anything else that may arrive in any given level, to reach the goal at the end. It also comes with an art style and design almost identical to that of indie gem, SUPERHOT.
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Occasionally this gets frustrating, but once the abilities start to unlock, most levels are manageable and I can busy myself more with unorthodox jumps than with achieving a flawless line.For those unaware of what Clustertruck is, consider this as hybrid mashup of the popular childhood game ‘the floor is lava’, and that crazy TV programme Ice Road Truckers – if those truckers were REALLY drunk. It doesn't go strictly by level number, either - some of the earliest levels in a world are the most difficult and vice versa. Some can be quickly completed on the first try in less than a minute, while others are more demanding and require many, many restarts to accomplish. 'Clustertruck' varies wildly in difficulty from level to level. They will happily drive off hills or cliffs, putting the physics engine to good work as I try to bounce my way across a temporary bridge of falling trucks. The trucks start out in the same position and arrangement every time, but how they drive can change depending on the grade of road and what they hit along the way, including each other. Every runthrough of every level is procedural to a certain extent. Others are huge sprawling monstrosities with things to jump through and over and under in a kind of puzzley maze of jumping goodness.
Some of the levels are very small and narrow, with terrain features like boulders rolling down a hill towards the hapless trucks. Imagine the highway scene in ' Hardcore Henry' but less cheesy and more superhuman, mixed with video game tractor trailer hopscotch, and you'll have an idea of the kind of adrenaline in store during these massive jumps. One jump ability and one utility ability can be slotted at a time, so players can swap out tricks based on a particular level's features or just to fit a preferred playstyle. Then there are things that are probably unique to 'Clustertruck', like being able to spawn a single truck below my guy so we have a chance at preserving the level by not hitting the ground. These include most things we've seen in many other platform games: slo-mo, double jumps, grappling hooks, and so on. Pulling off slick maneuvers awarded me with style points that can purchase special abilities. It is rather difficult to control the player in mid-air, at least at first. Jumping is more horizontal than vertical in 'Clustertruck', but huge leaps are possible after a few warm-up hops.
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It is technically possible to ride on trucks for some time, but eventually the horrible drivers are going to crash, sometimes all at once. Touching the ground or any other surface is an instant restart. The only objective is to jump from truck to truck to make it to the goal line. It turns out there are many semi-trucks all driving on top of each other (hence the name), and the whole game is basically an advanced version of "the floor is lava" that we all played as kids and our parents hated. The level immediately restarted and again the same result. The first level started with little warning and my first-person guy was unceremoniously dumped to the ground from atop a semi-truck. I started up 'Clustertruck' with absolutely no idea what I was getting into (in my defense, this is not usually how it works for us at HDD).
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