Yet its story focuses on showcasing the talents of its stellar voice cast at the expense of offering meaningful things to do, and its satirical punches rarely leave lasting bruises.
Jüngle not be progressive, he has rainbow hair!" Thanks, but I kinda picked up on the bit just seeing the coiffure in question.The Last Worker’s comically exaggerated vision of the future of work is highly relevant. At one point a character mockingly intones, "How could Mr.
It's more straightforward than I expected: I clocked the lone twist pretty quickly, and The Last Worker could be a bit too eager to explain its jokes. Your mileage may vary on how much of a bummer that is (I was grumbling), but overall the game's story and characters are fun and a good hang. This bit spoke to the potential of spatial hovercraft sneaking, but was sadly a one-off occurrence.Īt the risk of spoiling too much, The Last Worker kinda does the Bioshock Infinite thing where the rebels are actually a bunch of greedy assholes and both sides are bad. There is one set piece where you descend through a silo, avoiding bots' circular patrol routes at each level. Your six degrees of freedom are well catered-to in the warehouse work portions, which make you fly up and down massive stacks of boxes to find your packages, while most of the stealth portions could be pretty easily replicated with your boots on the ground. My big complaint with the stealth is that I wish the hovercraft's verticality had been leveraged more here. I was very excited by this mechanic-it has the sort of "gotcha" trolling capacity as Papers, Please's bureacratic battles: "Oh, you thought this box was fine because it was undamaged and the correct weight? You moron! You forgot to check the size!" Using a compass projected from Kurt's hovercraft, you have to fly through the facility to your next package, check it for damage, weight discrepancies, or other errors, then deliver it to either "recycling" or fulfillment chutes accordingly.
That package sorting is one of two main gameplay loops in The Last Worker. As a note: this game is sold as fully playable both in and out of VR, and I only had the opportunity to review the flat panel version before launch. You assume the role of Kurt, a 25-year veteran of the Amazon-alike Jüngle corporation who, through bureaucratic oversight, has outlasted wave after wave of automation-driven layoffs to be the literal last human worker sorting packages in a Manhattan-sized fulfillment center. The Last Worker is a fun, short, narrative puzzle game, something I'm always glad to play, but not an exemplar of the genre.
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