When your ape bleeds, the amount will tell you how hurt you are and how many shots you can take before dying. As you round a corner, there’s a subtle animation that conveys the shifting of its weight to stay upright. When it hits top speed, it takes on the feel of a boulder rolling down a hill. The gorilla feels like it weighs a ton but is as powerful and agile as you would expect it to be. Just moving your gorilla around feels exactly the way it should. I want to give a fast shout out to developers Cuzzillo, Boch and Foddy for really getting the feel of a giant ape going mad right. Each death screen shows you how far you made it through this particular room and how close you got to freedom. Death often comes swiftly – -your gorilla can only take three or four shots before dropping - and the reload is almost instantaneous. Reaching the Green Door on the other side will allow you to progress to the next room, quicksaving your progress. The objective is always to get from one side of the current room to the next.
It becomes a macabre dance, the rampage ebbing and flowing as you move from guard to guard, room to room. Like Hotline Miami before it, the key to surviving in Ape Out is split-second decision making. Pressing L2 allows you to grab a nearby guard and hold them in front of you as a human shield, absorbing incoming fire and becoming throwable with another press of the R2 trigger. Pressing R2 unleashes a devastating shove attack that sends armed guards flying into walls at a rate of knots so high that they explode, limbs flying in all directions - limbs you can then pick up and start hurling. You move your gorilla around with the left stick and everything else is on your L2 and R2 triggers.
There are only three real controls in Ape Out. The muted thrum of bongo drums perfectly underscores the mayhem, giving the whole exercise a sense of powerful locomotion, the stylish visuals steeped in blaxploitation cinema only adding to the feel of a reckless jailbreak. The reason for its use of cassette tape nomenclature is that the game is fuelled by a procedurally generated jazz soundtrack. Ape Out unfolds across four different levels, each divided into two parts - Side A and Side B. You play an angry, caged gorilla ready to throw off the shackles of oppression and embark on a bloody rampage in a bid for freedom. It’s an entertaining and creative riff on the format popularised by Hotline Miami, a barbarous explosion of violence that belies its more rhythm-based gameplay. Ape Out is not a terribly long game, but it is a fun one.
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