Gameplay revolves around exploring the small world of Turnip Boy and a few Zelda-like actions. As it is, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is more concerned with odd-jobs, questing, and possibly the pickle mafia, than it ever is with taxes. Had there been more of an in-depth world, some kind of barter system, or a way to literally work off Turnip Boy’s debt, with the money counting down, maybe the whole thing would have felt more engaging. The title led me to think the game would be something it really wasn’t. The fact that the game has nothing much else to do with taxes might sound great to you, but I found this left me feeling a bit short-changed.
There’s no choice but to rip up every document you have, which begs the question does Turnip Boy have a particular issue with paper documents of any kind, and is this what forced him to rip up that first fateful tax bill? You will collect papers and cheques from other vegetables, but they are literally only there for you to rip in half like the tax form. However apart from this indentured servitude due to your tax evasion, there is not much else in the game directly to do with taxes, forms or money. Eventually you’ll find the item Mayor Onion needs and its back to your slavedriver, for another requirement. You’ll earn a few items that you can keep, like a sword and watering can, but most need to be exchanged for the next thing to keep moving. It’s nicely structured and easy to complete quests one after another. The gameplay throughout falls into a structure of pick up or find an item, which answers one vegetable’s quest – they reward you with the item you need for another quest and so on and so on. Each time it’s a quest either north, south, east or west of the town looking for an item he needs. Mayor Onion gets you travelling all over the small realm around Veggieville. Or the moment when I spoke to a blueberry about his snail tenant who wasn’t paying his rent, solved his problem by killing the snail, and then got accused of murder, only for everything to by fine once the rent money was found. There’s a tongue-in-cheek sarcasm to most of the script at one point I found a trophy, and the item description says, ‘regular rewards keep players engaged’. It’s an oddly dystopian world for all the colour on display most of the plant people are preoccupied with their rent, money or real estate, or they are the ‘rotten’, intent on criminal damage of some kind. Turnip Boy lives in a world of vegetable and fruit-based people – can you use the word anthropomorphised when it’s plants? There’s old man lemon, the blueberry people, acorns and avocados that talk, you get the idea. Just here you must do Mayor Onions bidding if you want to get your greenhouse back. It’s just a slightly different way to lock you into indentured servitude, which let’s face it is how plenty of protagonists in plenty of video games go about their lives anyway. You are filed with a property tax demand on your greenhouse, and by ripping up the form (which is your only choice – you can’t NOT commit tax evasion), you are indebted to the town’s mayor, Mayor Onion. So spoiler alert, you commit the tax evasion in the first two seconds of the game. Let’s file an F1NGR GNS form and see what comes back from the IRS.
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There’s a turnip-shaped boy, of course there is, but its actually a really colourful world full of Zelda-like puzzles and there’s only a small hint of greed and taxes. Lot of papers, forms to fill in and filings to make. You’re thinking some kind of Kafkaesque world where a turnip-shaped boy gets lost in a bureaucratic nightmare.
It’s one of those titles that tells you almost everything you need to know. Just straight off, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a great title for a game. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a fantastic title, but is the game underneath as good as the concept in your head now? The Finger Guns review:
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