And you process all of that while trying to wrap your head around the Dick-esque (Philip K., that is) world you’re thrust into. Feeding yourself is just as important to your progress as narcotics are. You also kill to survive, whether it’s defensive after being identified as an outsider, or merely to survive day-to-day. The necessity of narcotics here is like watching helplessly while the heroin-addled march into methadone treatment. “Joy,” is what the world revolves around - a designer drug, not the feeling of contentment, mind you. Whatever We Happy Few holds in store for us as a finished product, its first public appearance pulls no punches (or in this case, billy club or cricket bat). Your acclimation to the retro-post British world around you is swift, brutal, and downright unsettling. Compulsion ditches the silent protagonist cliche, as your cockney-sound ruffian speaks up upon opening his presumably forced-shut eyes. Right off the bat, We Happy Few plunges the pacifists and the straight-edge crowd into a no-win scenario. Given my own proclivities (I’ve been chewing on Hotline Miami 2 while writing about PAX East experiences, to give you an idea), you can include me in that group.
Strong violence, a strong (seemingly necessary) emphasis on drug use, and strong ties to dystopian archetypes immediately put this first-person action-survival indie on the radar of many. Strong can be used to describe much of what lies within. Built using the new-ish Unreal Engine 4, Compulsion Games’ follow-up to Contrast appears to be off to a strong start.
We Happy Few - Announcement TrailerFor a Canadian bun that’s only been in the oven for seven months, the slice of We Happy Few I saw at PAX East 2015 is surprisingly polished and visually stunning.
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