If you fail the stage, however, you won’t get to keep your Style Points, which lends well to “should I try this crazy stunt, or just focus on clearing the stage?” sort of thinking. As you complete stages, you’ll also rack up Style Points for performing stunts like just barely jumping off a truck before it explodes, jumping off a truck that is also midair, and maintaining a lot of air time at once. As you progress through the 9 worlds, the difficulty ramps up in a fair, yet challenging way. Each world often introduces a new obstacle in some way that makes it unique, or prepares you for tougher stages in the future, like instant kill lasers that move around, or pressure plates that launch trucks high into the sky. All 9 worlds are thematic ranging from a Desert, to Sci-fi, to Hell itself. There are 90 total stages in Clustertruck: 9 worlds with 10 levels each. At any rate, Clustertruck lends really well to playing with a buddy or three as well, provided you switch off per death or perhaps per level. My only real gripe with the controls is the inability to remap the controls by default, as the fast paced running and jumping makes it difficult to take your thumb off the right stick to press the X button it would be really nice to be able to map jump to a shoulder button like L1. The controls feel weird and floaty at first, but you’ll get the hang of it in a few levels. It has that fast-paced, arcade-style, pick-up-and-play feel to it, where you can play just a level or three, or binge the whole game within a day or two (like I did). At first it seems simple, jumping from truck to truck, but soon it becomes crazy as trucks crash into each other and parts of the level, flying off cliffs, as you perform death-defying several story leaps from truck to truck. If you touch the ground or anything that isn’t a truck for that matter, you lose and have to restart to level. You ride on nondescript tractor trailers through a nondescript landscape, running and jumping from truck to truck to reach the goal.
And I’m really glad I did.Ĭlustertruck is a first-person platformer with a unique twist.
#Clustertruck 9 10 Ps4
On a whim this weekend, in between frustrating Daggerfall dungeon delving (though I’m starting to get the hang of it), I decided to drop $15 on Clustertruck, an indie game on PS4 and Steam.