The right to *bear arms.*

It's a known fact that all the bears can double-jump.

You had me at 'Jackass robot dies in acid, leaves robot bone skeleton'

First person Ratchet and Clank was the first comparison I thought of. Seriously, the gameplay and artistic sensibilities are the same

Its fitting that the code-cracking tool is a dial-a-thing given that its pretty much a space age version of monkey island's piracy control, the dial-a-pirate

This game looks like an adhd kid's dream

My mate actually is one of the devs for this! Awesome to see someone like gman reviewing it, wasnt expecting this in my feed at all!

This is why you're my favourite reviewer without question. Not only do you do classics, and AAA releases while knowing what you're talking about as an FPS veteran in the scene, but you do the weird little indies types I never woulda have heard of too, with the same amount of passion and reverence. You've just got a love for gaming that I enjoy listening to.

High on life if it wasn't mid af

Gman : “High on Life is unfunny and stupid” Also Gman : “haha, these robots just repeated they love hoverbikes 5 times! Hilarious!”

Its like JazzPunk with actual gameplay

Getting some serious Sam vibes from this. No, like seriously. Some very serious Sam vibes. It may be only visually, but it’s seriously impressive how much it’s giving that vibe. Seriously.

Here for the review but also to shit on High on Life

Wait, Maxwell Atoms? As in, the guy who created The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy?

For me it's more of "Earthworm Jim spinoff FPS"

Funny thing is that High on Life is actually a pretty decent video game, its just got Roilands stench all over everything else

ngl seeing the bullet hell already seals the deal how engaging it would be.

I love that Beartana is actually Mrs. Bighead from Rocco's Modern Life

If I had a nickel for every time an FPS gave you a lovable partner named BT, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice

For being made by 3 people, it looks great all around. The lighting is pretty flat but they really nailed the guns. People never seem to understand how hard it can be to make satisfying shooting. You gotta get the sounds, enemy reactions, animations etc all down great so your shooting doesnt suck eggs. The guns look super satisfying to shoot here so props for that.

There was one joke that stuck with me in High on Life. And it was the construction worker family. The one part in the game where the annoying dialogue is intentional, getting you to try shooting the characters, only for it to work. It’s great. It was a vindicating moment in the game. lol. That and the “traffic jam” community. It was worth playing for free. A time killer. But oof the guns were quite annoying. Especially the knife. Strange how they made a whole DLC based off him. And this game has bullet hell stuff and good combat: interesting. More interesting that High on Life.

Holy shit, HIGH ON LIFE BUT FUNNY?!

The jackass reference actually had me cracking up lmao. I don't think High on Life ever got me even close to laughing out loud

The ronny botsville jumping in acid made me immediately add this to my wishlist.

Bit of a missed opportunity from the devs that the Duck Launcher doesn't function like Snarks in Half Life.

My mom uses the paper bag to hold the ping pong balls until they're needed.

It gives my a bunch of ps2 game vibes like Psychonauts and Rachet and clank. That's a good thing as we rarely see that tone in games these days.

That kinda humor and creatively of MDK2, Ratchet and Clank 2 and Time Splinters 3, with a dash of High on Life.

Looks like a hidden gem of a game

the best part of this game is the rayguns aesthetic instead of the milisim BS we have to eat year by year.

This looks about as funny as High on Life. “ lol random xD” tier humor.

Definitely noticed that lay-z-bot ball. Nice reference for sure.

Based on the demo I would have said it's like High on Life but not funny. High on Life had some bad jokes (some of which, like the traffic jam, are meant to be background noise and not dwelled on) but Bears in Space felt like it was trying super hard and not landing a thing. "I get it. It ain't making me laugh but I get it." was my feeling with it. At least High on Life did land sometimes. Anyway the gameplay in the demo itself was fun so i'll probably pick it up one day.

I'm a simple man, I see bears and space, and I'm interested in that

I think if Evoland 2 was an homage / love letter to 2D and topdown games. Then Bears in Space might be its counterpart for 3D games and the more forgotten genres.

Thanks for the review!

4:38 Dear GOD it's Robo Vin Diesel!

"You've found my booty, but you ain't leaving alive!" -GMomLives "When all those balls are flying in your face, you might want to have as many faces as possible" -GMomLives

Amazing Video GmanLives.

Even got the Thirst Zappers as weapons lol

I think the robot with the gravely voice is a reference to Vin Diesel in the Fast and Furious movies, always talking about family and all that

Love the Basketball reference 😂 what a great film that is

Looks serious sam inspired

I love how you say without all the annoying voicework, and then the first voices you showed are terrible. Lmao.

For some reason this game sort of feels like it is some kind of missing early 2000's game. I am especially getting some Psychonauts vibes.

Okay I'm hooked

It's like if Jazzpunk had a secret child that was half bear.

Met the devs at a showcase last year and nerded out over unreal tournament. Was happy to see the side boosts are in the game.

I've been playing through this myself, and the last thing I expected was a Trap Door reference in the form of a trading card.

This is my favorite game of 2024 so far and it's getting so little coverage... people need to know this game exists!

"Did you..did you just shot his retirement funds?"

Fascinating

Didn't expect you to cover this 😅

I am over 20 hours in this game and I'm not sure how I never realized the guns have alternate fire modes... Also the basketcube launcher is really good for bosses, and smaller crowds, if you time your shots right it'll hit them multiple times. Absolutely demolishes the big jumpy guys.

Shots fired

I love games with actual love put into them It's so charming

this is like a first person r&c game.... something we need more of desperately

Need to play this game now

So it's basically Commander Keen in FPS.

This is quite cool

Wow this looks sweet. Gonna buy and support these lads down under.

Go buy it guys. You won't regret it. Support indie devs! This game is fun.

There's one other first-person shmup I can think of, called Drunken Robot Pornography. I'm dead serious. There's robots and alcohol, but the last bit, not so much.

20:10 this part got me dying 😂😂😂

This game is basically my entire humor boiled into my favorite type of game

Did Gman pronounce Atoms like Rainier Wolfcastle? Nice reference there buddy! Also, just reviewed this and absolutely love it!

This is so fucking stupid. Buying it right now

So it's basically Journey to the Savage Planet on steroids Sounds like a winner to me

Gotta love there is a level that features CTF Facing Worlds from Unreal Tournament, a really nice reference.

High on life is just personified reddit humor

oh thank god, i thought i was actually alone on that sentiment that High on life was C tier shooter, and a F tier comedy.

7:26 Awww the cop robot has a cop 'stache! [acab]

This was on my radar. It looks fun. Glad to hear you liked it. I find I've mostly been buying indie games lately.

This really does look like a FPS version of Ratchet & Clank and I am here for it

8:29 that's what i was thinking this whole video. environments look a bit similar to the original ratchet and clank to me. one of my favorite games of all time so definitely a good thing

The title is exactly what I thought playing the demo lol

It kinda reminds me of Armed & Dangerous

Funny reference to DM-Deck16 while searching for letters to spell a word while at the same time being a reference to Tony hawk.

QUEENSLANDER!

Ngl, not even a third of the way through this review, and i love this game already.

Why does this remind me of Banjo Kazooie but it’s entirely the FPS Breegull Gun sequences from BK2.

always nice to see the unreal engine used for it's original purpose.... a shooter

It kinda looks like a high on life clone. But i dont get how dev started 7 years ago and they are so familiar in concept. The gun designs alone look purposefully the same as high on life. I hope it makes it to consile i wanna play this bad boy.

Australians are hilarious. Have you actually looked at a map of Australia? I think I found a forest called Dingleberry Bush once.

Game looks incredible

3:25 Honestly a nice pick by the devs for a map to use, it is iconic enough. Also shout out to Facing Worlds for having some amazing music.

Wishlisted! and aw man it reminded me that UT2004 is now 20 years old.

4:39 Vin Diesel ❌ Vin Photon ✅

That medieval village kinda reminds me of Serious Samv 2 And i wouldn't be surprised if the double barrel shotgun is an homage to both Doom and erious Sam

This is why you’re the GOAT. You review games that would have completely gone under the radar and make me want to try them out. Bought Boltgun after watching your review and loved every minute of it. Bought Bears in space last night after watching this review and it’s amazing. Everything High on life wanted to be. Keep up the good work Sonny Jim!

the humor gives me jazzpunk vibes

Just noticed the jak 1 swamp level. This game is good.

Lol, I spotted a "Disk Defragmentation" joke in the basketball scene. Only 90s computer kids will know.

I get it. It's a game with lots of pop culture references. So what you're telling me is... it's "The Big Bang Theory"?

Sounds like a lot of issues could be solved with more enemy varieties that function differently.

I took that QLD jab personally

Have we ever had a real-life research survey of how people actually do/how things actually go on their final assignments &/or days of their careers? I'm so curious how it correlates with fictional stories.

This game made me think I was gonna play a Fruit Ninja minigame and instead gave me a Time Crisis minigame. 10/10

why is he cruising in third gear during the patrons credits... what a psychopath

5:01 yea those robot segments would genuinely have me in tears the vin diesel robot is welcome always lol