Earlier, Dr. And everyone shared the article "Why is the competition for this year's TGA Game of the Year Awards in the eyes of many players a rookie pecking at each other?" Compared with previous years' game masterpieces, this year's TGA Game of the Year Award winner "Two-Player Trip" and the competitors in the list ("Death Loop", "Mitterrod: Fear of Survival", "Brain Crew 2", "Ricky and Ding-Dong: Time Jump", "Resident Evil 8: Village") are somewhat insufficient to watch, giving people a feeling of rookies pecking at each other.
Whether you admit it or not, it's not the best indie game developed by Hazelight and published with EA's assistance in terms of scale, influence, and technology, and it's almost as interesting as Blockbusters like The Witcher 3, God of War 4, and Zelda Legends: Breath of the Wild! And today, The doctor wrote a special article to review "Double Trip", just to "tout" this good game with his own meager efforts. Although it was almost interesting in previous years, this year's award is still deserved!
"Two-player Trip" was launched in March this year, and as soon as the game was released, it swept the so-called player ratings and media ratings, and the amazing cooperation level design left a deep impression on everyone, and it became the best game of the year in the minds of many people at that time. Sure enough, "Two-Player Trip" won the Game of the Year Award at TGA, and also won the Best Family Game and Best Multiplayer Game Award!
It sold well as soon as it went public
Unlike those well-known classic game series, "Double Trip" is not a famous IP, and it has quickly broken through millions of sales in just one month, which fully demonstrates that the game is fun! At present, the product still maintains a "highly praised (96% praise)" player evaluation on Steam, and the doctor deliberately went to see the bad review content, which is basically spitting on the orange platform, and the quality of the game itself has nothing to do with it.
Everything that has been played is good
In addition to receiving good reviews on Steam, It has also received various positive reviews on other channels, such as: The product is currently one of the highest rated games on Metacritic this year (2021). Dr. Here to explain, Metacritic is a more famous overseas rating website, it will count the media and player ratings respectively, "Two-Player Trip" has obtained high scores.
Unique game mechanics
The protagonists of the story of "Two-Man Trip" are a couple with split feelings, Cody and May. When her daughter Rose knew they would be separated, tears fell on her parents doll as she cried. Something unexpected happens, Cody and May wake up to find themselves as two dolls and have to find a way to get back to where they are, so they embark on a dependent adventure! I believe you have seen that this is a two-player cooperative game, with special emphasis on cooperation and complementarity! "Two-Player Trip" has taught many people who don't play games that games can also promote relationships between people!
The development team behind it
After Hazelight released A Way Out in 2018, producer Josef Fares decided to make another game with only co-op mode, further optimizing and expanding the previous game concept, although it was a two-player cooperative game, but "Double Trip" obviously succeeded in elevating this gameplay to a new height and grade! If you're interested, you can also search for Josef Fares, who likes to talk and brag, but players like him because the game he makes is really fun!
Game name disputes
Recently, "Two-Person Trip" was accidentally involved in a trademark dispute with Take Two! According to foreign media reports, Take Two, the parent company of R Star, which we are very familiar with, filed a lawsuit against indie developer Hazelight because they own trademark rights to rockstar, Take Two, Bully and other words and variants, believing that It Takes Two is profiting from their trademark popularity. The Doctor thinks: Everyone except Take Two should be speechless! In the end, Hazelight finally chose to give up the trademark right of the game name, but the current game name does not need to be changed.
The above is the whole story of 2021 "Double Trip", the only drawback of the game is that it cannot be played alone, otherwise the sales of the game will be higher!