‘Rick And Morty’ Creator’s New Video Game Looks Extremely Annoying

High On Life is a new first-person shooter from Squanch Games and Rick And Morty creator Justin Roiland.

The game got a new trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live and it has basically turned me off to the entire thing in one fell swoop.

Here’s the game’s premise: You play as a mercenary trying to stop an alien invasion. The aliens in question get high on humans, which is a problem for Earthlings everywhere. You befriend two talking guns (or a gun and a knife?) and set out to save the planet.

Here’s the problem: The talking guns never shut up. It’s a steady stream of wisecracking in what appears to be the only two voices Roiland actually does: Rick and Morty, or some minor variation of the two.

Maybe it’s just not my cup of tea. I suppose there would be an audience for a game where you wielded two talking guns that sounded like Beavis and Butthead, but that would drive me absolutely insane. This is no different.

I don’t mind some wisecracking in video games, but I need a steady stream of this crap like I need appendicitis. No thanks. I’ll give this one a hard pass.

The last time I felt so thrown off by a video game’s odd choices was when I learned that Baldur’s Gate 3 was going to use past tense dialogue choices. I wrote about how that was a terrible no-good, very bad idea at the time and thankfully Larian saw the light and returned to present tense, like literally every D&D campaign ever.

Maybe this trailer isn’t a perfect example of the entirety of the game and it isn’t quite so incessant, or maybe Squanch Games will realize how irritating and jarring this is and scale it way back. For now, count me out.

If you want a Rick and Morty video game kick that isn’t Fortnite, you can hop into MultiVersus and grab Morty right now. And use him to kick the crap out of Arya Stark or Scooby Doo.

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