“I started this game collecting trash, and now I’m collecting trash again.” This passing remark might be surprising, even amusing, if it wasn’t the last in a long line of identical cracks. Whenever I did this, the boat’s health bar would nudge up again slightly - giving me a brief reprieve to return to my zombie-killing. And so, in addition to fending off endless waves of bad guys, I had to bounce around the outermost edges of Sunset City searching for bright green, glowing containers, pick them up, and race back to the barge to deposit them in the vessel’s gullet. The woman steering the ship cried out for help, saying that the boat couldn’t hold much longer and I had to do something.
Hulking giants and impish bat-like creatures soon followed, all taking aim at our pitiful little vessel - our last hope for escape. Sickly mutants fired ropy strings of greenish acid. Neon orange zombies glommed on me whenever my feet touched the ground. But the swarm of monsters was too dizzying to keep track of, all at once. Guns in hand, I leapt feverishly between the barge and the surrounding city streets - zipping along the corners of buildings and tightly-knit power lines as I did my best to shoot anything that moved. Once we got moving, however, the infected denizens of Sunset City descended on us with incredible fury. Hence the water-bound garbage disposal device that was meant to be our ticket out of there.
Some of these survivors naturally wanted to escape, and do so by any means necessary. Well, see: the boat was really more of a barge, which makes perfect sense, seeing as Sunset Overdrive is a post apocalyptic adventure about the people who survived a cataclysmic event involving a giant evil corporation distributing tainted energy drinks that turned an entire city into bulbous, shrieking pus-filled monsters. So why were we collecting trash in the middle of it? “I started this game collecting trash,” my character quipped late in Sunset Overdrive, “and now I’m collecting trash again.” She was defending a makeshift boat that was trying to escape the zombie-infested wasteland of Sunset City.
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