A Tentacle for Your Thoughts - Carrion | Abbreviated Reviews.

Are you tired of games where you have to kill all the cool monsters and save the boring people to go on with their mundane lives? What if you could BE the monster and turn those mundane lives into delicious food for your tentacle-formed body? Well then you’re gonna love Carrion! Dive into the world of a secret underground lab as you take on the role of a blob of tentacles and mouths that has just escaped from its tank! Make your way through the lab entangling and consuming everyone you can wrap your limbs around as you try to find your way out of this prison.

Collect numerous useful abilities for your carnivorous blob like shooting a Spider-man web, sending out dozens of deadly spikes, ramming things to death, and even turning invisible! Venture through this Metroidvania designed world using these powers to defeat the various puzzles, enemies, and even deadly traps! But you can’t just swap these powers any time your tentacled heart pleases.

You have to be the right size! That means if you’re too big to use your webshooter to flip a switch, you’ve got to get yourself smacked down to size! Or you can always opt to shit parts of your body into these convenient pools so you can eat it later and regrow! Slide your slimy tentacles into every crevice you can find as you navigate your way through these tunnels and passageways to sneak up on your unwitting prey! Then tear them to pieces for a light snack unless they’re those notoriously inedible soldiers.

Face off against armed enemies that range from regular people with pistols to mechs with blazing machine guns that shred you in seconds! Watch out for those flamethrowers so you don’t catch fire and die a horrible crispy death! Or use the awesome power of penetrating your enemies with a friendly tentacle to take control of their minds and use some friendly fire for an easy victory! Find special areas in the recesses of the lab that allow you to shove your engorged biomass into the cracks and spread across the levels unlocking special pizza doors one slice at a time.

Then you can make your way through each of the different facilities growing ever larger and more voracious as you bust open Learnin’ Containers teaching you new abilities! You can even interface with these weird computers that show you some sort of timeline where you get to play a human for mysterious reasons! Carrion, it’ll make you second guess every octopus you ever meet.