Anything aiming to be a full on “comedy game” is to be celebrated if you ask me, or comedy anything for that matter, we seem to be past the age of movies like The Naked Gun when comedy could be a genre in itself rather than just the reason why Marvel superheroes all talk like 90s sitcom characters.That will entirely depend on how tiresome you find the Rick and Morty “we don’t give a shit come and look at us not giving a shit not that we give a shit if you do” sort of vibe where characters keep lengthily explaining what they’re currently doing like an improv comedian stalling until the ambulance arrives to sew their knob back on, but the odd thing is, it works for me.Yes, I’ve unloaded dumptrucks of lukewarm shit onto games like Borderlands that think all you have to do to be funny is talk like a socially awkward person binging on cocaine in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer writers room, and what with the central gimmick of High on Life being that your guns are alive and constantly giving advice and commentary, it certainly is a disciple of the verbal dysentery school of humour, but it gets away from the Borderlands comparison on two fronts: one, the comedic tone actually infuses the whole game so the jokey facetious dialogue never feels like something merely drizzled on top of an otherwise dull experience like red pepper flakes on a block of gelatinised cum, and the writing and performance doesn’t feel so much like it’s trying too hard.Anyway, we escape to an alien planet, join forces with a sentient talking gun and begin a campaign to violently murder our way through the various members of the alien drug cartel in an area about midway between Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and basically every Adult Swim show.There’s only four of the things, because I suppose anything more would have stretched the voice acting budget: The starting pistol might as well be firing kidney stones, I’m not entirely convinced that the shotgun is doing anything besides break wind, the rapid fire pistol’s probably the best one on offer but then there’s the token exotic thing that fires little men that jump on enemies and pull on their moustaches, but my rule of thumb for guns is that anything that adds extra steps between pull the trigger and thing"