Review for Good Job!. Game for Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 26/03/2020
In the latest Nintendo Direct a surprise was announced a little pearl, a production Paladin Studios published by Nintendo and immediately available for Nintendo Switch: We are talking about Good Job!, an indie puzzle game that is immediate, ironic, fun and able to quickly give an immoderate addiction.
In this period of quarantine, placed to face COVID-19, many have found themselves at home willing or in pain, with lots of free time available. Incredibly, for many, regret for work has been felt, for those hours of the day spent carrying out actions that would normally cause frustration and fatigue but which, today, almost regret themselves especially for those who do physical, manual work, whether good or bad keeps your mind and body busy all day.
Thanks to Good Job! you will soon find the activities you have abandoned such as cleaning, warehousing, plant engineering, robotics and so on and so forth, but luckily here you will find an added value, unexpected and incredibly satisfying: chronic insanity.
But let's go in order. The plot of Good Job !, if it can be defined as such, is really basic: our protagonist is the son of the big boss who tries to do a little bit of apprenticeship, climbing the top of his father's society from the basics to the top. New hires at the family business, we will therefore start from the basics and the humblest jobs, with our uniform and our badge ready to carry out the first assignment. To describe it like this it seems almost a typical management software but in reality things are very different: each of the 9 floors of the company reproduces a given technical sector and specific tasks.
From the warehouse to the offices passing through the relaxation area, robotics and management, our hero will have to carry out specific tasks for each floor in order to earn the promotion to access the next floor.
You will therefore need to clean, move packages, use forklifts and cranes, hang pictures, connect Wi-Fi, wet plants and much more. Each floor corresponds to a given number of rooms with a given specific task to be carried out for each. Once you enter the room, a short tutorial will start explaining what to do; from there the timer will start and it will be up to you to complete the task. Good Job! However, it is a physics-based puzzle game, which could be defined as merciless, made even more terrifying by the clumsy movements of the protagonist. Cleaning a floor with the rotating brush would seem an easy task in itself - just to give you an example - but if you don't dose strength and movement to the millimeter, you'll find yourself riding a crazy appliance that will destroy everything in its path.
Good Job! in fact, it gives the player the chance to destroy practically the entire level, except for the perimeter walls and some supporting structures. To get the best result in completing each stage you will have to take into account three basic aspects: the time, the economic damage done and the number of broken objects. Paying close attention you will get an "A" in each category but to pass the level you just need to carry out the task, without necessarily doing it well. Immediate is therefore the desire to shoot the projector - located at the other end of the floor - which we were asked to replace in the conference room using an electric cable as a sling and making it cross four walls and various objects with arrogance and then connect it calmly and serenity to the current and leave the level with a satisfied air.
In no time at all, you find yourself carrying out a variety of tasks in the most absurd ways, first trying to do it calmly and then inexorably ending up devastating everything. This component of destructiveness combined with a gameplay that always sees us performing weird tasks in the most absurd ways gives Good Job! that added value that creates an almost palpable addiction. Each level pushes you to the next in a destructive, ignorant and zany dance that captivates and keeps you glued to the screen.
The graphics and sound adapt to the genre and context, in a minimal and colorful style that captures the attention and that is often used in physical puzzle games. The protagonist is the classic all black stick man with two colored tinsel that can vary as we find new ones in the levels: it goes without saying that headgear and accessories are the most unusual and strange you can imagine. Finding them all or simply collecting them is part of the fun, but doing it without destroying everything will not be easy especially given the fixed isometric view which, even if used in a decidedly effective way, sometimes becomes difficult to manage by its very nature. The audio sector is quite simple, with a jazz / ambient soundtrack typical of offices that surrounds it, making it pleasant and never invasive.
Good Job! it is a title that can be finished in a handful of hours but which despite the fact that we thought the opposite on paper also offers a margin of replayability. In fact, for lovers of collectibles you can search the nine floors of the building for the hundreds of hidden wearables in order to find all the extravagant combinations of clothing for the protagonist (a gem you will find once you have completed the game in the hidden level, but we do not turn tell you where and which in order not to spoil the surprise - Ed.). Furthermore, once the game is finished, you will be able to take equipment out of the levels and floors to place them in inappropriate contexts (until you have completed Good Job! It will not be allowed): priceless to turn with the forklift truck with raised forks destroying everything in the management sector. Finally, you can also decide to tackle each single level in search of the maximum score or zero damage, which we are sure will keep you busy for a long time.
Honorable mention to the two player co-op mode that allows you to play the levels with a friend by your side: two players means double destruction and double fun.
Good Job! for Nintendo Switch turns out to be an incredibly fresh and fun Paladin Studios production. With that strong sense of insanity and ruthless physics, this puzzle game offers intense hours of fun and creates in the player that pleasant addiction that we gamers like so much. To find a flaw, we can define the title a bit short, but the replayability factor leads it to be a recommended purchase, and we all hope it will soon have a sequel.
► Good Job! is a Puzzle-indie type game developed by Paladin Studios and published by Nintendo for Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 26/03/2020
