When exploring the world, you’ll have enemies to fight and puzzles to solve. Don’t go into Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion with thoughts of a grand world which takes you hours to travel across, play it expecting a comfy world which you will know like the back of your own hand by the end of the game, and look at that as the positive that it is. I think this might be one of my favourite types of game, tiny Zelda inspired games where I can memorise the world layout in a couple of hours, see Anodyne, Minit, and of course this game.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I prefer this to most Zelda games, what I’m saying is there’s something satisfying about knowing an entire world inside out, it makes you feel intelligent when you always know where to go, not because you’ve been told but because you remember somebody asking for a certain item, in your typical Zelda game the worlds are so big you don’t really get that intimacy with them.
TURNIP BOY COMMITS TAX EVASION PLAYTHROUGH SIMULATOR
Of course, the whole game isn’t a document destruction simulator (although I’d play that), the rest of the game is very Zelda like just way shorter, Zelda lite if you will and part of me prefers Zelda lite. These are some of the best jokes in the game, I won’t spoil any of them until the spoiler section but it’s hilarious seeing somebody hand you something they’ve worked hard on, or something they’re just showing you to get your opinion on just for you to rip it up in front of them, it’s so chaotic and I love it. The game introduces you to the concept of ripping up documents right at the beginning when you are presented with your taxes, you are given two options, read or rip up, since reading doesn’t progress the plot and games are a power fantasy where ripping up your taxes won’t put you in jail of course you rip it up, this introduces you to your main goal, find all the documents in the game and rip them up. These quests will have you exploring a small yet densely packed world, visiting fun and unique locations, meeting cool new characters, and ripping up a ton of documents. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion follows Turnip Boy as he does a ton of quests for Mayor Onion to make up for the fact that he committed tax evasion. Whilst the game does have some shortcomings which prevent it from joining the indie greats, it’s a game which I struggle to imagine wouldn’t be enjoyable to anybody who decides to pick it up and I do recommend you pick it up. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion kept me smiling through the short three hours it took me to 100% the game, smiling both with laughter and just at the general cuteness of it all. What I got instead was one of the funniest games I’ve ever played which has enough interesting ideas to keep the gameplay enjoyable enough throughout.
I thought I knew what I was getting when I first loaded up “Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion”, it was going to be a Zelda clone with little to none of its own personality gameplay-wise but maybe some good humour that could make me reluctantly recommend the game.
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