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Quick Look: Putty Squad

Jeff uses the power of the PS4 to render the most vibrant clipart and squiggly text you've ever seen.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Apr. 24 2014

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Putty Squad

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That Mad Fowls game was released on discs on consoles for $50! This>That.

Fawlty Towers is a timeless classic.

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I was only listening half-heartedly -- I'm at work -- but did Jeff just insult 'Fawlty Towers,' one of the funniest British shows...hell, one of the funniest shows regardless of nationality...ever?

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This looks like something I'd have on Jaguar.

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This coming out on disc for $30 is just... unfathomable.

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I imagine this is what Frog Fractions 2 is gonna be like.

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This isn't real. How is this real.

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This looks positively disgusting. It looks about as deep as a dull stoner's epiphany; which isn't that deep in case you didn't know. Where are the actual games for the PS4 and the X-Bone for that matter?

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Not surprised that Jeff doesn't like Fawlty Towers. I mean, he likes Riff Raff and Lil Debby. His tastes are far from cultured.

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This isn't real. How is this real.

Doesn't matter if it's real or not, people will pay money for fake video games these days.

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Man, I wanna score those putties!

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O_O I have never heard of anyone disliking Fawlty Towers.

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The fecal protection plan sounds pretty important all things considered.

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Squads Before Quads!

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Ugh, I'm getting angry just looking at this. It offends my sense of aesthetics on every level.

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I want to see the invoice like with Angry Birds Star Wars.

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This looks like some free PC game you would have found for download in like 2001 or something.

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Am I the only one that finds this game strangling endearing?

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@meauntienora said:

This seems like the sort of game that inexplicably has a ravenous fanbase.

They are almost certainly from another country (wherever you're from).

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I have good, hazy memories of playing it at a neighbour's house where i also played Mario All-Stars and Street Fighter 2, but this is wearing down my nostalgia something fierce(I'm from Norway by the way). At least I'll always have the opening music.

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puffy squad?

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This falls smack dab in the middle of 'Good' and 'So Bad It's Good'.

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@redhotchilimist said:

@meauntienora said:

This seems like the sort of game that inexplicably has a ravenous fanbase.

They are almost certainly from another country (wherever you're from).

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I have good, hazy memories of playing it at a neighbour's house where i also played Mario All-Stars and Street Fighter 2, but this is wearing down my nostalgia something fierce(I'm from Norway by the way). At least I'll always have the opening music.

The animation appears to be better here, wuts a goin on! Also the music reminds me of Streets Of Rage

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Dat Lithograph.ttf

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@drewbert, I think you got the video signals mixed up. You recorded the feed from the Dreamcast. You should redo the Quick Look with the PS4 feed.

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How is this actually happening.

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Does this look like an iOS port to anyone else? The way the UI is done, the button prompt locations, the size of the text, the wording with things like "Tap X" instead of press. It just looks so much like something on an iPad.

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Wow, this looks so amazing that I think I'll get the retail and the digital version. Maybe even the SNES version if it doesn't cost over a 1000 bucks.

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I...I can STILL hear this music...

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I had this in my Gamefly queue for a good bit because there wasn't really much of anything coming out. Figured I would try it, at least. At some point I decided to remove it from my queue before it came out(I can't remember why). I think I made a very good decision.

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O_O I have never heard of anyone disliking Fawlty Towers.

I don't dislike Fawlty Towers, but if I was being honest, I was way more into Are You Being Served?

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There is no reasonable reason for this to exist.

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Literally a game made back in 1993 and released in 2014, what a weird thing: http://www.retrocollect.com/News/long-lost-commodore-amiga-version-of-putty-squad-released-for-free-officially-by-system-3.html

Can I have a remake of Captive made on the Legend of Grimrock engine now?

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I've endured your shit for long enough, Jeff Worst-mann. This Fawlty Towers slander is TOO MUCH.

I QUIT (whatever it is I do).

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What the fuck am I looking at.

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I'm with Jeff, Fawlty Towers is just a dumb show that a lot of people liked back in the day because it had John Cleese. Otherwise it's just a bunch of hams acting ridiculous with very little tact or craft.

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Fawlty Towers is one of the best sitcoms ever.

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It's like Sony started accepting XBLIGs on PSN

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What a curious thing. Wonder if the mobile versions are also $25?

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yep that's an amiga platformer right there

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Saw this come up in text on my Twitter feed. Mildly disappointed to discover that "Putty Squad" isn't some kind of tactical combat game putting you in control of a group of Rita Repulsa's mooks, hunting the Power Rangers.

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I thought this is a mini golf game. So disappointed.

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Kind of disappointed that this isn't frog fractions 2.

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I never played Amiga games growing up, but I can say this game reminds me of a PS1-era platformer, and not necessarily in a bad way. Platformers around that time (both 2D and especially 3D) tended to have overly-big stages crammed with collectibles of various degrees of importance and stage themes and enemy designs varied wildly with little to no rhyme or reason, let alone consistency (just think of the Gex games or Jumping Flash); they were messy, but a big part of the fun came from exploring the various paths such games often gave you and from the sense of discovery the sheer degree of randomness created.

$25 is almost certainly asking for far too much for this game, but I can definitely see the appeal it and games similar to it have as they can provide a nice break from today's often polished, but consistent and predictable, platformers.

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Still no Clayfighter QL.

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Fawlty Towers is as perfect as a TV sitcom can get. Jeff basically belongs in a group of Holocaust deniers and Jenny McCarthy of being wrong.

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You people complain that physical game stores have a choke hold on game sales, restricting digital sales from being lower in price than box copies and incentivizing an all digital future. Putty Squad does exactly this, and it's mocked. THIS CANNOT STAND.

Oh wait, this game looks incredibly boring.

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Putty Squad reminds me of Cool Spot, the reverb-y music from Symphony of the Night, Cloning Clyde, Krusty's Super Fun House, and Swarm for some reason.

I'm super conflicted now.