Think about if an ET snorted your dad out of an area bathroom. You will be indignant, however there’s nothing you are able to do about it. Until you occur to have a bunch of highly effective alien weapons or tricked-out energy armor. That is the story of you, a humble child who occurs to like video video games. That is the story of how Earth was taken over by a large interstellar drug cartel.
The occasions of Excessive on Life start on a seemingly bizarre day in a sleepy suburb when an alien invasion erupts. Her dad and mom are out of city and her sassy sister Lizzie needs to throw a wild social gathering. And all you need to do is take pleasure in a legally differentiated first-person shooter. I can relate.
Arriving from nowhere, G3 cartelThey’re led by a disgusting slimy slug man known as . Garmantus;The twisted mass of flesh is uglier than Jabba the Hutt and twice as vile. He is right here as a result of, sadly, people have very highly effective leisure medicine. Evolutionarily talking, we simply occur to be in an unfortunate spot for the assorted species that make up our galactic civilization. So the G3 cartel is right here to enslave us, stuff us all in bottles and promote us on the road corners, with no regard for our rights as sentient beings. They even homicide beloved Hollywood stars Jack Black and Susan Sarandon!
Happily, an early probability encounter places humanity again in a barely higher place. you meet kennya sentient gun from the planet Gatras. of Gatrian They’re a proud bioweapon race enslaved by cartels and subjected to a brutal bioengineered plague. All survivors are pressured to kind the majority of the cartel’s deadly arsenal.
You already know, I am beginning to suppose these folks aren’t very good.
Kenny seems to be an affable younger gun who assaults the cartel with an axe and the 2 plan to get revenge. Along with his assist, escape the devastation of Earth by warping your complete home. Brim Metropolisan alien metropolis filled with glittering towers, wonderful know-how, and… pawnshops, organized crime, filthy slums, and felony delinquents. It is a metropolis in spite of everything. When it comes all the way down to it, they’re all Birmingham or Detroit or one thing else.
So this is Kenny’s plan. You turn out to be a licensed bounty hunter and destroy your complete dastardly operation of the G3 Cartel by systematically killing its total higher echelon. This consists of the uncontrolled homicide of most of the decrease ranks. All of this is able to not be doable with out the assistance of: Gene Zaroujian: Down on his luck, he was as soon as a well-known bounty hunter, however at one level resorted to promoting his legs for somewhat money. In change for a everlasting seat in your sofa and management of your TV distant, he units you up with the aforementioned trick-out energy armor and the all-important Bounty-5000, a big alien laptop that mixes the performance of the Contract Board and Stargate. He additionally units the primary mission. Head to the slums and retrieve Gene’s knife. βknifeβ and assassinate him. 9-squarethe boss of a neighborhood crime syndicate. And once more 5-squareher clone sister, when you like.
Though not technically a part of the G3 cartel, the 9 Torg gang does enterprise with them as drug traffickers, so killing all of them feels completely morally constant. The knife is recovered, associated knife crime and combating expertise are unlocked, and the campaign to avoid wasting humanity from area junk begins in earnest.
Goal 1: Klubis
your first goal is Klubisan enormous cheese in G3’s mining operations on the planet Zephyr Paradise, with a thick New Jersey accent and a drill in his hand.
βMining work?β you suppose? “I believed this was a drug cartel? What the hell are they mining?”
medicine. They’re mining medicine. Particularly, it is a dwell drug known as Furgle. One other sentient species, the Furgles, enjoys the doubtful honor of getting in some way advanced in such a manner that snorting offers different aliens a substantial excessive. All of their mining is completed as a result of they have a tendency to dwell underground in caves. Fagle shares the planet with the Moplets, a race of despair bears with scrotums on their faces who’re brutally enslaved by Klubis to maintain the mines operating.
However Klubis had an issue. Demand for Fagle is collapsing as a result of discovery in people that it has confirmed to be a way more highly effective drug. He and his product at the moment are quickly dropping favor with Garmantuous, that means his place inside the G3 cartel is in a really precarious state of affairs. That is what occurs if you dig an excessive amount of tunnel.
However quickly, that is not his concern as you kill him and take his gun. gasolinethe JB Smoove is a frog-faced shotgun with a vacuum characteristic that may fireplace a big noticed blade that can be utilized as a platform. He’s additionally the one Gatorian with arms, which is ironic for a race with weapons. , armpostscript. Oh, overlook it.
In the meantime, at house, the 2 discover themselves at one another’s throats as Lizzie embarks on the alien relationship scene whereas Gene will get somewhat too snug on the sofa.
Goal 2: Douglas
The second G3 goal is douglasthe cartel’s coaching director. And torture too. And whereas recruiting requires a certain quantity of evil, Douglas’ ruthless brutality and hedonism makes him so unhealthy at his job that he typically forces new recruits to battle one another to the dying, regardless of G3’s existential staffing points. In fact, this implies he is quickly slipping away from Garmantuas’ recognition, which appears to be a seamless theme right here. How may such a chaotic, mismanaged group turn out to be the dominant felony conspiracy within the galaxy? It is like another person is pulling the strings right here…
Douglas is a small, susceptible octopus creature who’s obsessive about providing you with pointless and tough coaching challenges. Disguised as Dr. Joepy, he virtually convinces you to return to the facility armor he by accident trapped you in whereas aboard the bender, however his ruse is uncovered by Gus. So you possibly can simply shoot him as an alternative of enjoying his silly sport. or not. Both manner, you may find yourself combating his go well with, successful, and gaining a brand new Gatorian companion. Sweezya nasty needler with a nifty time bubble alt-fire that can be utilized to interrupt into air ducts.
Goal 3: Physician Motu
Crag NagminThe Justice of the Peace of Brim Metropolis has summoned you to his workplace to have fun your marketing campaign in opposition to the drug commerce and gives your assist in rescuing humanity by constructing a protected haven on your folks and providing you with a tool to immediately teleport any people you discover there. Setting apart for now that this man doubtless has nefarious intentions, you progress on to your subsequent assassination mission…stopping briefly to resolve one other home challenge between Gene, Lizzie, and her crappy boyfriend, Twig.
What’s your subsequent goal? Physician Motuthe cartel’s deranged warp scientist who’s now zephyr paradise. Present details about Dr. Gibblets is that he has gone into hiding after killing all of his subordinates and has acquired a robust Gatorian. Nonetheless, once they discover his secret base, there Busted Gatorianafter being experimented with, it turns into fully damaged and inoperable. Nonetheless, earlier than he can take his simply revenge on his abuser, Gibletz by accident journeys and… dies. Nonetheless, as an alternative of saving you from the effort of boss battles, it results in one of the tough battles within the sport, within the type of Dr. Gibblets’ posthumous revenge.
The inner organs are totally disposed of, and the Basted Gatorians are handed over to Jean to see if something might be accomplished for them. Nonetheless, Giblets is just not the one G3 boss conducting horrific medical experiments in Zephyr Paradise.
Goal 4: The Skrendel Brothers
Subsequent on the hit record: the skrendel brothersthe supervisor of the Skrendel Institute, an unlimited drug facility the place the cartel conducts human experiments to extend its efficiency. In your manner there, you rescue one other Gatorian. residing issuesAnd we be taught in regards to the nasty experiment that made him completely pregnant and turned him right into a gun able to taking pictures his personal offspring as projectiles. What on earth is that this about these folks and their horrific medical experiments?
The Skrendel brothers are a composite of triplets that mix into their Extremely kind within the ultimate battle, however are clearly defeated. By now, you’ve got turn out to be sufficient of a thorn within the cartel’s facet that you’ve got attracted the eye of Garmantuus himself. Garmantuas has warned you to again off, with the implication that when you do not you’ll hurt your long-separated dad and mom. However it seems that Garmantuous truly options Hollywood darlings Jack Black and Susan Sarandon as an alternative of their dad and mom, in one of many sport’s funniest twists and feature-length gags. I completely spoiled it within the introduction to this abstract. You already know, when you had been apprehensive about spoilers, you would not learn the synopsis, proper?
In the meantime, the arrested Gatorian seems to be a former resistance chief. Lesbian Duitthough it’s not what it as soon as was as a consequence of abuse, it nonetheless has a really highly effective firearm. Nonetheless, he appears to have a troubled previous with Kenny…
Blame Metropolis Invasion
It would not be a online game with no harmful third act the place you virtually lose the whole lot. First, Lizzie is lacking, so that you head to the subsequent location. area applebee In a slum the place her boyfriend, Twig, works as a cook dinner. That is proper, Area Applebees are one of many funniest and very unlikely product placements ever featured in a online game. It is like having a licensed Omega watch that you’ve got solely ever seen lined in shit at a Bond sport.
At Applebee’s, Kenny takes a uncommon quiet second within the sport to elucidate his unwitting position within the downfall of the Gatorian race, confessing that he turned the G3 smuggler’s private firearm, ultimately main the cartel on to his house planet by cowardice and incompetence, sparking a warfare, and the lack of his folks to a genetically engineered illness that rendered many of the inhabitants catatonic. Feeling closely burdened by this guilt, Kenny vows to avoid wasting humanity to atone for the genocide of his folks. It is all fairly heavy content material for a foolish Rick and Morty first-person shooter, however the pathos is periodically interrupted by an Applebee’s waiter to maintain issues as gentle as doable. That is undoubtedly the perfect a part of this sport.
Additional alongside, Twig seems to be a G3 agent tasked with infiltrating your private home by romancing Lizzie and gaining her belief. He’s seen kidnapping her in his area RV and fleeing Brim Metropolis, however earlier than you may give chase, the placement is overrun by the cartel, forcing you to make a hasty escape that includes warping the home to a brand new location once more. This time, we arrive on the toxic ruins of Gatrath, the homeworld of the Gatorians.
By the best way, Lizzie is ok.
Goal 5: Nipron
The second to final boss is replenish: Garmantuous’s right-hand man and G3’s buyer consultant. He runs a infamous drug den and, opposite to the knowledge of most senior operatives within the unlawful drug commerce, is biased in direction of his wares.
And naturally, like Batman’s Scarecrow or a drained mum or dad with entry to Tylenol for his or her youngsters, Nipron is adept at weaponizing medicine. This results in one of the weird boss battles in fashionable gaming, the place we be taught that irrespective of the percentages, the facility of teamwork can overcome any problem. And dealing with a firearm whereas intoxicated can generally result in constructive outcomes. Truly, I do not suppose there’s a ethical to this story. There’s only a lot occurring.
finish the battle
After dispatching Nipron, Gene efficiently saves the highly effective Gatorian Rezduit from oblivion. With no extra weapons to gather or upgrades to buy, the one factor left to do is return to Earth and kill Garmantuas, ending the G3 cartel’s tyranny for good and saving humanity from the abominable destiny of turning into ALF’s ecstasy.
Nonetheless, even Rezduit’s firepower is just not sufficient to defeat Gamantuas. Gene deduces that the one solution to kill the crime lord is to place a bomb in his again. After which, on the climax of a protracted barrage battle, with an incapacitated Garmantuas displaying his total butt figuratively and actually, the butt bomb enema fails to blow up. The distant detonator is malfunctioning.
Sure, the punchline of the sport requires you to sacrifice one in every of your newfound pals by thrusting it up the villain’s anus. Actually a becoming ending for the galaxy’s largest asshole. The one query is who to sacrifice.
The wisest selection is Kenny, given how this noble sacrifice completes the story of his redemption, but it surely does not actually matter, as a result of your selection is rapidly ruined when it seems that the gun you threw into the void rapidly returns after surviving the explosion.
That is proper: lo and behold, they please do not Kill Kenny. Nonetheless, as soon as the DLC “Excessive on Knives” is launched, his character can be written up with a random little bit of clarification, for causes which might be past the scope of this abstract.
By the best way, listed here are the principle revelations from the DLC: Knives is just not a kind of melee Gatorian, however moderately a pacifist Knives race from the planet Australia 2 who can not resist him. Additionally, eliminating the dysfunctional G3 cartel does not truly make humanity safer from the intergalactic drug commerce. However we already knew that within the base sport’s secret ending. There, an enormous evil mastermind behind the whole lot is revealed. Dr. Gurugura. He’s found within the bowels of Human Haven, based by Decide Cragg, ostensibly to avoid wasting his folks, however in actuality to recapture them and supply Dr. Gargra with human topics for much more grotesque experiments. The sport is fairly clear that this reveal is a tease for the sequel, during which you, your sister, Jean, and at the very least a number of the returned Gatorians are fugitives on the run from galactic authorities.
That is the entire story of Excessive on Life, or at the very least what you truly have to know earlier than enjoying Excessive on Life 2.