![]() Dadliest Catch is all about flailing around, barely accomplishing tiny tasks. These floppy controls sound immensely frustrating, and that's kind of true, but it's also the point. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Race the Sun (for iPad) Review But these seemingly simple goals become gargantuan coordination challenges when performed by a creature with eight slippery tentacles stuffed inside a suit. ![]() Mow the lawn, shop for groceries, begrudgingly take your kids to the aquarium. On paper, Octodad's fatherly tasks sound easy and almost boring. Other examples include ragdoll running game QWOP and the recent adventure in jetpack deaths Piloteer ($2.99 at ) (Opens in a new window). Octodad: Dadliest Catch ($4.99 at ) (Opens in a new window) is one of the more successful attempts to make a real game out of purposefully wonky controls and comedic physics. Octodad: Dadliest Catch was never more than a modest novelty, and this iPad version ($4.99) is just a port, but the touch controls are a great new method of interacting with Octodad's wonderfully wacky world. Octodad: Dadliest Catch spruced up the original concept for PCs and the PlayStation 4 ($799.95 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) last year, and now the cephalopod simulator has wriggled its way onto iOS. Who is Octodad? He's a loving father, secret octopus, possible drug metaphor, star of an acclaimed 2010 student game, and ambassador of a burgeoning gaming subgenre of comedy through difficult controls.
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