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There’s even Apple TV support as a universal app, and the game boasts iCloud saving, which worked without issue for me. You can even get two MFi controllers in the mix in order to do the game’s co-op mode, where each player controls different limbs.
While the controls have been optimized as much as they could be for the touchscreen, you can play with MFi controllers.
The game will murder your battery, but it performs at a very high level.
The mobile port deserves a lot of credit for being fantastic, as far as features and performances go. While the game being a desktop and console game first means it was able to put in a lot more in the way of production values than most mobile-only games, Octodad does stand out a lot because of how well-made it is. Children in entertainment tend to be precocious and/or annoying, and this game does a good job at minimizing those factors. The writing, including the interpretations of Octodad’s various blubs and gurgles, is fantastic. The game really does a great job at succeeding at being a game of high emotions and high comedy. But you can also enjoy the game just on a surface level of “it is difficult to get that lawnmower out of the shed with all those sportsballs!" While I don’t think that many people are actually octopi, I can certainly relate to the idea that I look like I’ve got my stuff together, but really am just flailing about to see what works. The whole experience is about trying to pretend that you’re something that you’re really not. It’s easy to see where the connection to the idea of impostor syndrome comes in with this game. This all while you have octopus limbs that don’t do a great job at simulating human legs and hands, and the human tasks that you must accomplish. You’ll catch on pretty quickly, though – you control an octopus that is pretending to be human, trying to do normal human things like going grocery shopping, mowing the lawn, and avoiding the maniacal chef who wants nothing more than to reveal you for the fraud that you are. And if the game feels like you’re jumping into something you should know more about, that’s because it is a sequel to a student game that the principals of the studio made while they were students at DePaul. Don’t ask why the children are human, you won’t get any good answers. Two and a half years after beginning production, Octodad: Dadliest Catch is ready to flop awkwardly into your arms.Finally on mobile, Young Horses’ Octodad: Dadliest Catch ($4.99) has you controlling the eponymous Octodad, an octopus who has a wife and two children, and is just really trying to keep this good thing going. Octodad received enough attention that the team decided to run a Kickstarter, form the game studio Young Horses, and create a bigger, better, more polished game about Octodad. Despite everyone being convinced that the game was about a normal human dad, the game was a cult hit, gained critical acclaim, and was an Independent Games Festival Student Finalist in 2011. In Octo-ber 2010, a group of university students released the original Octodad into the world. In this sequel to the splash hit Octodad, our cephaloprotagonist has gotten himself in a bind between his wife’s mounting mistrust, and a disastrous trip to the local aquarium! Are you dad enough to control the titular octopus father as he strives to hide his nautical nature from his family while keeping his tangled tentacles intact? Octodad’s existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood.