Instead, it brings a welcome touch of humanity to this temperamental beast, and gives you the grit to carry on trying to tame him even when he continually flies off the handle.
It doesn't serve any real purpose, playing football with this towering pink galoot, but the game would be poorer for it if it wasn't there. Kick a football at him, though, and he'll lob it back, a deep chuckle erupting from his wobbly belly. Let him eat one of those aforementioned poisonous frogs, for example, and he'll fly into an immediate rage, causing him to come after you and hunt you down if you don't hide or feed him some fury-dispelling fruit. It's a moment that comes around half way through this 2-3 hour game, and it's probably one of the rare moments in Papo & Yo where you truly feel like this giant, horned, pink blob of a creature is actually worth saving. There are still moments of levity to be found in this puzzle-y platformer set in a Brazilian favela, though, and my absolute favourite is the time you get to play footie with Quico's hulking great Monster friend. Based on designer Vander Callabero's own troubled childhood, Papo & Yo is very much in the same vein as games like That Dragon, Cancer and The Town of Light - hard-hitting, true-to-life stories that use the game as a lens to tackle difficult themes and subjects. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.įor all its dreamy landscapes, talking robot toys and unusually high population of poisonous frogs, Papo & Yo is not a happy game. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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