Parcel Corps comes from small Belfast developer Billy Goat Entertainment, who “specialise in creating light-hearted, light-hearted and comedic experiences…” and that’s exactly the energy Parcel Corps gives you.
At Parcel Corps, you need to build a career as a bike courier in the city of New Island: you’ve left the 9-to-5 job and are now working as a self-employed bike courier. You’ve been assigned to one of the city’s three main courier companies, and the game features a number of astute commentary on big companies and the moneymen behind them, something that has particularly caught the attention of the gaming industry in recent years.
New Island is full of small businesses that need courier services and overcome an initial challenge for them that can range from delivering an item on time to distributing flyers around town to destroying a number of police drones that are jamming the signal local radio station Eiffel Records. If you overcome these initial challenges, they will install your app on their phone so they can submit more orders.
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Business is going well. Deliver packages around the city, smash through railings and walls, slide under parked trucks, under fallen trees, around corners, and ride on rear wheels, delivering everything from steroids to a bodybuilder to pizza from the local Face Pizzeria Takeaway pizza to completely disassembled furniture from Idea, which contains exactly 95% of all the parts you need in the package.
Different requirements apply to different deliveries. For example, Idea deliveries must not be broken, and Petal Pusher’s flower packages smell so strong that one must not exceed a certain speed to avoid being overwhelmed by the unpleasant smell. You build good relationships with local businesses by delivering their packages. And the better your relationships, the better your chances are in the so-called Delivery Rush events, which are a kind of boss fight. In true Crazy Taxi style, you have to deliver as many packages as possible in the order you want within the set time. If you succeed, you will level up, continually unlocking the game’s eight areas.
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Parcel Corps is a nostalgic blast from 90s arcades, with a focus on simple gameplay and little variety or progression throughout the game. Customers’ delivery requirements are constantly changing (although some of them are also recycled) and of course the environment changes when you move to a new neighborhood, which brings new challenges to moving quickly: for example, the police will show up and make it difficult . There are few The things and some quarters are very vertical, but the most important thing is to always deliver packages, and quickly.
The money you earn from delivering packages can be spent on upgrading your bike, but only on cosmetic items. It’s a shame that you can’t upgrade your bike to make it easier to handle, take tighter turns or go faster, for example. Since you can only buy cosmetic things, over time the value of the money you earn begins to decrease and becomes secondary.
If you need a break from delivery duty, you can always explore the city and hunt down the police drones and security cameras, or you can take part in online multiplayer mode where you compete against other players to deliver packages as quickly as possible.
The graphics are simple. They have a unique cartoon style and are clearly inspired by Jet Set Radio, with their own style. Unfortunately, there are performance losses because everything works a little irregularly, which is particularly noticeable when getting used to it. Everything works with strange jerks. It’s not pretty and the game could use some optimization.
Parcel Corps is a fun little blast from the arcades of the 90s (if anyone remembers that) and works best in small chunks as it isn’t particularly varied. The game progress is perhaps a little too slow, lasting between 15 and 20 hours, which is almost too much for a game of this type.
Billy Goat still needs to work on optimizing the game as it just doesn’t run well enough, especially considering how basic the graphics are and the uneven graphics are already annoying for the game. You get used to it and after a somewhat slow start the game opens up and becomes a good, light entertainment among the heavier and more demanding games this fall.
