Just a really short review as this is add-on content for Enslaved, which I reviewed BEFORE.

This is a sort of prequel to Enslaved where you get to play Pigsy, before his run-in with Trip and Monkey. It’s a lonely existence for Pigsy with only his little robot, ‘Truffles’, and a bunch of 1950s pin-up posters for company. Poor old Pigsy is lonely and hits upon the idea of building himself an… ahem… ‘companion’, essentially a sex-bot – well, he is a pig.

In order to build this sex-bot, Pigsy needs parts and that entails scrambling all over Pigsyland in search of the bits he needs, all the while avoiding the mechs and scavenger-bots that have descended upon the junkyard in order to raid parts of their own.

Playing Pigsy is very, very different to playing Monkey, you can’t go piling into combat and expect to survive. Pigsy is NOT acrobatic, nor a great fighter but his advantage is that he has a gun and can plink away at enemies from a distance. If you want to get through you have to seriously modify your playing style, being much more strategic and playing much more slowly and carefully.

You’re not completely helpless though, as well as your gun, Lola, you get access to high-power sniper rounds, the Pigsy-Prod that can stun mechs, an EMP bomb, an explosive bomb, a distraction device and ‘trouble vision’ that highlights grapple points for your hand, tracks objectives and highlights enemies.

Story-wise the jokes are mostly at Pigsy’s expense but what seems like a nasty and, somewhat perverse mission slowly transforms and morphs into something else. You start to sympathise with Pigsy and the ending of the game is very sad and brings a new understanding to the events involving Pigsy in the main game.

Masterful storytelling, vivid backgrounds and a new gameplay experience. Nicely done, especially for add-on content.

Score
Style: 5
Substance: 3
Overall: 4