Despite the deconfinement, many French people are still teleworking or part-time unemployed. And after more than two months, the nostalgia for work begins to be felt. To rediscover the atmosphere of open space, colleagues at the coffee machine or the soft sound of trucks pouring into warehouses, why not immerse yourself in a video game located… in a business? Far from being boring, Good Job! , from the Dutch of Paladin Studios, published exclusively on the Nintendo Switch, is a fun outlet that pushes you to be not the best but the worst employee of the month.
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Man of everything
Plasticine graphics, stick figures (but still 3D), garish colors: the introduction of Good Job! immediately places us in a very arcade universe, cartoony limit. We play the son of the CEO of a large company, parachuted by his father as a handyman at the bottom of the chain to perfect his training. To go up in rank, we are responsible for carrying out a whole bunch of very basic tasks: bringing a video projector to the meeting room, sorting the parcels at the mail service or even watering the plants…
There is nothing very interesting in appearance. Except that Good Job! is not a simulator intended to faithfully reproduce the world of work, far from it. The character we play is incredibly awkward, sort of Gaston Lagaffe of the video game. And above all, physics is a bit special in the game: furniture and objects are as light as a feather. However, on paper, the objective is to accomplish each mission by breaking as little as possible. But with furniture that overturns as soon as it brushes against, it gets complicated.
Business of destruction and destruction of business
Of course, it is quite possible to accomplish your tasks with care. But it takes a lot of skill and the slightest misstep can cause a precious vase to fall and $ 10,000 worth of damage to the key. Where Good Job! becomes funny, it is that one cannot be fired since one is the boss's son! Very quickly, we give up respect for furniture and employees because ultimately, breaking everything is much funnier. Admittedly, this starts your final grade a little (graduated from A to D according to time and damage) but it is in reality useless. You just have to complete the objective to go to the next level.
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Let's take the example of the video projector again: we can of course transport it carefully in the corridors, paying careful attention to each office. But it is still much more interesting to use an electric wire stretched between two sockets to propel it through the walls bluntly, catapult way! Water the hundred flowers in the garden by filling a bucket at the fountain every 10 seconds? Why not. But we prefer to grab the garden hose to spray the space, even if it means transforming the floor into a swimming pool.
Perfect for an evening with friends
Offering total freedom in approaching missions, Good Job! proves to be completely enjoyable as it is easy to sow chaos and destruction in the business, a place usually synonymous with order and calm. We never get tired, despite the number of missions quite large (more than thirty to reach the penthouse of dad).
And if Good Joob! already enjoyed very much solo, it also has a nice cooperation mode. It only offers to play two missions of the story mode, which certainly lacks originality but allows a new approach to levels already made. Two, it is indeed possible to go even faster, therefore to get better marks, but above all to do twice as much damage by giving free rein to his imagination. And that's enough to make it a good title to add to its list of "evening games", perfect for having fun with friends.