Bad Entertainment is similarly energetic, with Wargasm singer Milkie Way clearly understanding the brief, delivering a biting guest appearance that ignites its latter half. Silence Is Golden sounds like it was designed by a year 2000 algorithm, combining Britpop swagger thanks to goading delivery and confrontational lyrics (‘ Better watch your mouth or I’ll knock you out’), before giving way to a down-tuned breakdown that’s pure nu-metal bliss. It’s certainly not an isolated case here. “It’s the first time I’ve felt that our music has mass appeal,” vocalist Tobi Duncan said of the title track during Trash Boat’s K! cover interview. The sound of two sensibilities convening, it’s big and bold even when conveying vulnerability, yet in a wonky guitar line that builds beautifully but not obviously it’s infused with a weirdness that suggests Trash Boat want success on their own terms. It also encapsulates the best of what this album has to offer. If you're dumpster diving for a palette cleanser in-between some larger titles this holiday season, do yourself a favor and consider helping a raccoon on its Trash Quest.The opening title-track, as you’re likely already aware, is a juggernaut that was written in a day but will linger in the memory infinitely longer. Still, it's not much of a challenge to complete the game with a 100 percent rate, so enjoy the experience while it lasts. Online leaderboards that track your clear time, among other things, adds a heaping of replay value. It's actually a brief but delightful and welcome addition to the Metroidvania stable on Switch. Trash Quest is far from a piece of eShop garbage. While the themes loop often, each area of the ship does have a unique one. Musically, the soundtrack reminds me a bit of classic Mega Man with a Sci-fi tinge to it. Looking before leaping is essentially a requirement here, to an extent. There is a spotlight trained on the raccoon at all times that illuminates platforms, which means it sometimes can be a challenge to see what you are actually aiming for when running and jumping. Trash Quest employs classic pixel graphics and only a handful of colors in each ship area. Maybe a rocket-powered raccoon could be taking on some more interesting foes? None of the basic enemies stand out, and some of the bosses are nigh indiscernible. In terms of design, it would have been nice to see the enemies have a little more character to them.
Losing to a boss doesn't send you back to the trash heap, either you get to respawn right outside the boss room. The boss fights make for a nice change of pace and reward you for being thorough and collecting the firepower upgrades. After the opening 15 minutes or so, you'll be scurrying around the ship at a brisk clip. Another key element of exploring the ship and keeping deaths from being too costly is the abundance of unlockable shortcuts. The raccoon you play as gets some serious horizontal distance on its jump, and movement feels really solid, despite the fact you can't use the direction pad at all. In terms of its action, Trash Quest focuses more on platforming than shooting, which makes for a nice change of pace after playing something like Metroid Dread. Over the course of the game, you'll earn more jumps and improvements to your weapon, but nothing too flashy. Initially, you have a basic gun attack and a single jump. Given that the game leans heavy to the linear side, there seems to be an expected path that players will end up taking. Fans of the genre will recognize the trappings right away, but essentially you make your way through the five different areas of the ship, defeating a boss, and acquiring new abilities in each area that help you traverse the next one. With essentially no filler at all, this brisk romp through the corridors of a spaceship makes for a quaint but satisfying way to pass an hour or two.Ī few lines of exposition reveal little in the way of story, but it's probably a good thing that Trash Quest gets straight to the point. It's a funny name since the only major reference to literal garbage is the fact that the game's sole respawn point is indeed a trash receptacle, and of course the main character being a raccoon. Trash Quest is a micro-Metroidvania in the vein of Gato Roboto and Xeodrifter, except smaller and with less backtracking.
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