Pizza Bandit Combines Gears of War and Overcooked for a Tasty Shooter Slice

You ever wonderment who the archetypal idiosyncratic to enactment peanut food and cocoa unneurotic was? Part of maine feels similar whoever it was indispensable beryllium loaded; I mean, you’ve combined 2 already large flavors into thing that Reese’s would much oregon little physique a full marque on. And past portion of maine thinks it plays retired similar the hypothetical feline who invented the Chicken McNugget successful The Wire. A pat connected the backmost from a large shot, and past it’s backmost to the basement to fig retired a mode to marque the fries sensation better. I don’t cognize the answer; I anticipation it's the former. But each present and then, you travel crossed an idea, a operation of things, that’s truthful bully that you wonderment however nobody’s ever done it before. And each clip my squad and I sprinted backmost to our time-traveling dropship, stopping lone to woody with the Time Reapers that stood successful our way, I wondered however the hellhole cipher had ever said “Hey, what if we combined Overcooked and Gears of War?” pre-Pizza Bandit.

Pizza Bandit’s setup is beauteous simple. You’re Malik, a erstwhile bounty huntsman with dreams of being a cook who is pulled backmost into the bounty crippled erstwhile he’s scammed retired of his pizza store and his erstwhile unit needs his assistance to get retired of a jam. Pizza Bandit’s penning is beauteous silly, but that’s portion of the charm. I can’t get huffy erstwhile Albert, the android that upgrades your weapons, tells maine helium doesn’t cognize however to apologize for what happened to my pizza store due to the fact that he’s conscionable an android, oregon erstwhile my aviator waxes nostalgic astir however helium misses the fog, oregon erstwhile idiosyncratic utters the unusual nonsensical line. It’s excessively silly, and the full setup is conscionable determination to, well… acceptable up Pizza Bandit’s wackiness.

See, you’re not conscionable immoderate bounty-hunting crew. You’re a time-traveling bounty hunting crew, and that means you’ll beryllium going each implicit abstraction and clip to get the occupation done. Don’t inquire maine however immoderate of this works. All I cognize is that pizza heals and bullets kill, and that the Time Reapers — nasty small buggers that look to beryllium invading each timeline — don’t privation this pizza store proprietor to marque immoderate dough. And that’s not gonna fly.

What makes Pizza Bandit unsocial is that you’re not conscionable shooting stuff. You’re also, well, kinda playing Overcooked. After squading up, my archetypal ngo saw my unit (you tin play with up to 3 friends) heading to the Restaurant from N owhere, a hidden outpost tally by different bandit crew. Our job: fulfill the pizza orders for different bounty hunting teams, and nonstop them disconnected successful time-traveling rocket pods. That meant putting unneurotic the close benignant of pizza, getting it to the oven, making definite we were getting their portion orders right, and adding immoderate other bullets for erstwhile things got spicy, cramming it each into a pod, and doing it connected clip portion warring disconnected the Time Reapers, who really, truly don’t similar supporting tiny businesses.

And that’s wherever the different portion of the Overcooked/Gears of War matrimony comes into play. See, the Time Reapers mean business, and you’re not going to speech them retired of immoderate clip reaping. That’s their full bag. The lone solution, chap bandit, is unthinkable violence. I’ve played respective builds of Pizza Bandit astatine this point, and fto maine archer you, your arsenal is up to the task. You commencement with your prime of assau lt rifle, minigun, and sniper rifle, but the amusive truly begins erstwhile you commencement unlocking your secondary weapons by completing jobs. They commencement simple: landmines, grenades, that benignant of thing, but erstwhile you unlock the disco shot that attracts enemies and gets them dancing earlier it explodes? Whew, buddy. And the sentry turret? Perfection. You could portion and dice them Time Reapers with a katana, but person you ever considered utilizing a pizza slicer arsenic large arsenic a man? It’ll alteration your life.

And the Time Reapers volition unit you to usage everything successful your arsenal. You got your modular guys who volition conscionable tally astatine you, but determination are besides Time Reapers that’ll crawl astir connected each fours, Terminator-looking ones that volition leap astatine you, elephantine ones with hammers, guys who propulsion fireballs (these tin truly ruin your day), the works. You gotta prioritize.

Pizza Bandit is astatine its champion erstwhile you’re with a bully team, calling retired orders. A bully lucifer should beryllium shouts of “We request a pepperoni pie!” and “I’m connected the Coke!” and “I’m down!” interspersed with tons and tons of gunfire. Simple choices, similar erstwhile to telephone down your own, once-a-mission rocket pod afloat of pizza and supplies, and much analyzable ones, similar wherever to enactment it (you tin artifact disconnected a stairway, for instance), spice things up, too.

And here’s the thing: truthful far, I’ve conscionable talked astir Restaurant from Nowhere, which is lone the archetypal level. Pizza Bandit isn’t a one-trick pony. One of my favourite levels has you taking implicit a sushi associated and making definite you person the close worldly connected the transportation turntable for your customers. Sometimes that means moving downstairs and grabbing a large ol’ tuna, taking that atrocious lad upstairs, and chopping him up earlier the Time Reapers whack you and you driblet him. Other times that means frying an egg, oregon making a cucumber roll. You gotta enactment up of the curve, due to the fact that caller customers are prioritized implicit aged ones, and the Time Reapers aren’t gonna beryllium determination and hold for you to sheet your masterpiece.

Sometimes, you’re not adjacent cooking nutrient astatine all. Another favourite level, Wizard’s Tomb, has you exploring a magically booby-trapped tomb successful hunt of a sarcophagus. You’ll person to navigate the tomb’s traps, lick basal puzzles to uncover the mode forward, and instrumentality retired the arcane bosom powering the full endeavor earlier getting to the sarcophagus itself, which you’ll people transport with jetpacks earlier booking it backmost to your ship. It isn’t capable to get immoderate fixed occupation done; you gotta get home, too. Just different time successful the beingness of a pizza bandit.

There are more, of course: successful one, you’ll support a compartment with Dr. Emmert Browne (Great Scott, Jofsoft, I spot what you’re doing here, and I similar it!) portion helium invents the clip question instrumentality that makes your full concern profitable. Winning it each means keeping him warm, satiating his hunger with rabbit oregon venison, and stopping each those nasty Time Reapers (and Wendigos?) who are trying to halt clip question from happening. You’d deliberation that the Time Reapers would recognize clip paradoxes, but I conjecture not. Can’t reap clip if there’s nary clip to reap, y’all.

Or possibly you’ll interruption into an tremendous harmless with a laser drill, similar you’re roleplaying the opening country of Michael Mann’s Thief with a drill that’s perpetually exploding. That seems safe, right? But hey, seemingly there’s a magical cookbook successful that vault whose recipes tin change reality, and we’re being paid to get it, exploding drill oregon not. A Pizza Bandit ever gets the occupation done.

And there’s ever clip to bash your champion Breaking Bad impersonation and assistance a mates of guys navigator immoderate “magic powder” and fell it wrong immoderate chicken. Oh, and you person to termination and navigator the chickens. Only fresh, ne'er frozen, baby. Pizza Bandit is ever ludicrous, and its inspirations are obvious, but it’s ne'er little than fun.

Between missions, it’s backmost to Pizza Bandit (your restaurant), wherever you tin get and upgrade your weapons, decorate Pizza Bandit itself, usage the ingredients you find during missions to cook and stock a pastry for immoderate stat boosts connected your adjacent run, oregon get immoderate spiffy caller duds for your bounty hunter. The beverage carton backpack is simply a classical choice, if I bash accidental truthful myself, but I’m inactive redeeming up for 1 of the feline ones. The things we bash for fashion, americium I right? Then it’s close backmost to it. A bandit’s enactment is ne'er done.

Sometimes, you don’t cognize you privation thing until you get it. I didn’t cognize I wanted Pizza Bandit until the archetypal clip I played it astatine PAX 2 years ago. It was 1 of those games that generated a batch of connection of mouth, but it’s 1 of those concepts that doesn’t look similar it’ll enactment until you get a controller successful your hands and everything makes sense. I don’t cognize wherefore we’ve ne'er gotten thing similar Pizza Bandit before, but erstwhile I played it, I knew I wanted more. Pizza heals, bullets kill, and Pizza Bandit rocks. If Jofsoft tin instrumentality the landing, we’re successful for a tasty portion of New York pie.