He stood there, birds flapping away at his face wildly, and informed me that I had to get my own peanut butter.
Like the moment I decided to spray pigeon juice on a hobo, spurring a swarm of the birds to affix themselves to the poor fellow. Experimenting to see what happens when you interact with an object or trying out some new gizmo you've acquired on an unwitting test subject is often rewarding on its own. Overcoming obstacles in your way and sniffing out the path ahead isn't particularly challenging, though the often unusual nature of the many tasks you have to complete to progress makes them highly entertaining. It's hard not to chuckle a bit when you're spraying liquid cheese into the mouth of a bespectacled gentleman or beheading pepperoni and cheese zombies with a giant pizza cutter. You never know what crazy thing you'll encounter next, and being diligent about investigating every nook and cranny rewards you with a slew of hilarious secrets and gags. It's all excessively bizarre, which is a huge part of the fun. The surreal missions that follow have you degaussing and smuggling pigeons, extracting mechanical organs from sushi-loving cowboys, cross-dressing for a vacation rendezvous briefcase swap, murdering a bionic pig with a six-string guitar, and even photocopying your backside to gain access to a secret facility. That's all just in the first minute or so. From there, the wild ride takes a more overt turn toward the bizarre when your director hands you a prescription bottle of mysterious pills to take in order to be "transported" to your first mission. If the brain-warping neon psychedelic intro doesn't make you feel like you've been drugged, the ebb and flow of the many humorous absurdities layered thick throughout the peculiar opening moments certainly will. Jazzpunk's warped version of the special-agent life begins with its silent protagonist, Polyblank, being mailed through customs in a human-shaped suitcase and deposited on the doorstep of a top-secret espionage agency that's based out of an abandoned subway car. The many comedic oddities you uncover multiple trips into this goofy indie odyssey worthwhile.
This off-the-wall journey is far from a straight line from start to finish, however, since every retro-futurist setting you explore is riddled with secrets. The promise of getting deluged by weirdness awaits your every move in Jazzpunk, a cartoony cyberpunk first-person adventure that attempts to shoehorn as many perplexing and hilarious moments as possible into its meager two-hour length.
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