When I say that Ape Out is a fun little game, I'm not being insulting. The first couple months of 2017 have smothered players with boundless open world games like Nier: Automata, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, or Ghost Recon Wildlands. When the horizon (pff) looks to be more of the same, it's nice to look ahead and see a game about a big orange ape powderizing guards.
It's an amusing trifle, but that's no bad thing! It's nice to have a popcorn indie game on the release calendar. For a few pleasant hours, you don't have to worry about the storm clouds that follow you around like you're Eeyore, you can just enjoy the visceral, immediate pleasures you get from whipping a suicide bomber into a crowd of his buddies and turning the whole lot into paste.
Right now, based on my PAX East 2017 demo, Ape Out absolutely fits that niche. It plays very well, serving as a prime example of how responsive controls often make the difference between success and yet another restart. To be fair, that just comes down to everyone's favorite old nebulous term "polish" -- nothing about Ape Out is particularly revolutionary, but it's still a well-made hoot.
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