Earth Must Die is a comedian-packed point-and-click in which you decide how much of a dick you want to be

The Earth should die, was one of the outstanding premieres in yesterday's game show PC. A spaceship in the style of cartoons shone with clear and bright visual effects and had a list of actors, which is read as someone who, who is a British comedy.

Starring Joel Fry (Game of Thrones, DR Who, our flag means death), Ben Starr (expedition 33, Final Fantasy 16), Marta Hou-Doglyz (co-creator of ghosts), Alex Horn (Taskmaster), Mike Wozniak (Man Down, Taskmaster, Three Bean Salad Podkast), Don Warrington, MatThew Holness (Garth Marenghi's DarkPlace), Tamsin Greig (Black Book Emma Freyer, Alastar Becket-King, Rosie Holt, John Blit, Sam O'Liri, Tom Lawrinon, Sally Bomont, David Monttyit and Inel Tomlinson.

Yes, this is John Blit, who once contributed to EurogamerI am sure this is the reward that he shares, and not his recent speeches nominated for BAFTA in Thank God you are here!

A short trailer and an attractive list of actors, but the details about the real game were relatively scarce. What should really die and when does it come out? After talking today with the creator of the game, Dan Marshall, I know some answers.

The earth should die, like many games five size (this is the name of the Marshall Studio), is an adventure. And, as in many games of the fifth size, this comes with a turn. “The idea is that this is an adventure game in terms of“ he is over it; Because he is from Gentry, belonging to the Earth, he will not press the button. So the game is … conversation-um-um. This is not a real word, right?

“But this does not look like monkeys an island where you can constantly reproduce conversations until you get the right things. The conversations will pass, and you choose how many member you will be [I'll come back to this point]And the decision of the puzzle is more about manipulating other people to do what you want to achieve, and not what you really do. So this is more about ordering other people to do something, instead of selecting things and having your own equipment. ”

Indeed, the earth must die Not Have an inventory, so you cannot touch anything or take anything, or keep something with you. I do not think that I have ever heard about the game of adventure/point of view and the click that did this before.

To return to “Choose which member you will be”, that is, the earth must die – this is also a game of villain. The right villain. Not a villain who secretly wants to be good.

Marshall says: “What they do in the games quite often, or in the contemptuous of me,“ Star Wars ”or“ something like that ”, is that this time you are going to play as one of the people in the empire,” and they release about a third of the journey, and you do not stir out on the rebel. And in fact. And in fact. [the character is] Delaka, because playing the villain throughout the path is a little tiring.

“We have developed methods for balancing [Valak's] The story is that he is just a member – he is a fascist dictator Belland. I will not shoot my words! But he is not a hero of history. But you really play him and choose his dialogue options and everything else, while the world collapses around him. ”

Thus, Valak is the main thing, as a merciless character responsible for the vast alien empire, which once discovers the Earth and the Empire, better organized than it. “So this is mainly: you are ruthlessly, with the scenes of the 1950s, and then the empire from Star Wars appears, invades and invades and turns you into their much better empire. So it leaves you in a slightly awkward position, becoming the leader of De Facto Rebel for your [rebellion]- says Marshall.

I think it sounds great, and if the last game is the size of the fifth Lodge of the groovy god This is all that you can go, there is every chance that it will be (I would like me to be brave enough to give this game five stars; do not tell Chris Tapselu that I said this). But when should the earth die?

One of the groups of detention until the vocal details are recorded is an almost completed game. For example, there is an external random land that needs to be died, it may even be released this year, today the robots did not say. This is a very preliminary goal, so keep it in mind, but it may happen. And if this is not the case, the release of 2026, in the visible one, will not be far behind.

By the way, I was glad to accept Dan Marshall and a partner in the letter and design of Ben Ward (Ben “Ben and Dan”) on the Podkast interview, which I launched A few years ago, and I do not think that the guests made me laugh stronger.