Initially, your cloud can only rainwater to soak humans and flood areas, but before long, the cloud can fill up with other liquids to wreak havoc. Levels often fly by, but the plus side to that is you rarely labor on a specific idea for too long.

These brief story segments usually introduce new mechanics or twists. It is also on Xbox Game Pass.The whole game, from start to finish, is told from the perspective of a dad telling his kid a story about a cloud, which explains some of the inane chicanery. Rain on Your Parade is available for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. Rain on Your Parade is definitely in the same sort of vein as Untitled Goose Game and a fun filler between more serious affairs. And it really is quite clever about things, with levels that can have puzzles that really make you think about how to achieve goals or with concepts that are silly fun. But sometimes when you do that, you’re also making things better for someone else. Yes, you’re mostly there to ruin virtual people’s days. Rain on Your Parade is more than people might expect. Playing on a larger screen helps, but it’s something to be aware of. It’s an issue that came up a few times in various levels. (If you complete every objective, you earn a cosmetic item.) Because of the size of the crows, overhead perspective, and general design, I had the most trouble hunting each one down. One optional goal is to rain down on the crows and humans in the level. The aforementioned farm level is a good example. In each one, I’d sometimes find it difficult to find characters required for objectives. When I was going through Rain on Your Parade, I went between docked and handheld modes.

Perhaps the only downside is one that might really only be an issue on the Nintendo Switch. (Which ends up being a rather clever level too, since one goal is to avoid raining on humans.) Another references Metal Gear, complete with appropriate intro, outfit, and stealthy objective. Early on, you’ll be helping a frog known for crossing roads restore a park. What also helps is how the trappings surrounding Rain on Your Parade make it more whimsical, especially when a level references another game. The general mechanic is the same, since you’re “raining” havoc, but the methods and motivations change. In another area, you head to a farm and instead of helping things grow, must find the corrosive liquid to destroy crops and vehicles. When you go to school, you have to wake up a sleeping teacher, usher kids into a classroom, and cause chemical reactions by getting the correct sorts of liquids to rain down onto an area. In another, there is a room with 90 items that have to all be set on fire. For example, in one situation you rain on people trying to defuse a bomb so it blows up. It’s a puzzler with a wide assortment of situations. But as you follow Cloudy around Seattle, you aren’t just raining or snowing on things. Though there is a Professor Dryspell determined to stop that sort of progress.īut what makes Rain on Your Parade a genuinely enjoyable adventure is how well the game handles these situations. Cloudy gets to go to the great, fabled city of Seattle, where they could rain on everyone all the time. Rain on Your Parade begins with a The Princess Bride sort of setup, where a child is being told a story about a mischievous cloud named, appropriately enough, Cloudy. While the whole point is to cause a little chaos in Rain on Your Parade, it’s a game that uses unorthodox measures to do so.

But in execution, it’s something far more charming. At a glance, it seems like something along the lines of Untitled Goose Game. The whole concept is that you’re a cloud that is a jerk. Take Rain on Your Parade from Unbound Creations. Sometimes, you hear about a game and wonder exactly how much there could be to it.

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