TOEJAM & EARL: BACK IN THE GROOVE

Whassup? The ‘90s, that’s what

Baseball cap turned backwards. Check. White vest? Check. Oversized gold chain? Absolutely. You, lovely reader, are ready to travel back to the ’90s and embrace the funky vibes of this classic Sega Mega Drive hit reborn on PS4.

So what’s the dillio? The big news is that the original game’s co-creator, Greg Johnson, returns to craft the worlds of Back In The Groove!, which means this is a proper sequel. The aim, says Greg Johnson, “was to capture the spirit of game one, and everything that was best about game two, and then add a whole new set of features”.

This means the same roguelike map-crawling anchors the game, but it’s now compounded by new ideas we’ve come to expect on PlayStation 4, including dialogue choices. Explaining how Earthlings you meet will treat you differently depending on what you say to them, Johnson says: “They might say “hey can I have a buck” and if you give them one, they might do something nice for you, or, if you say “no”, you might find yourself suddenly on rocket skates shooting across the level and over the side.”

With new and classic characters to unlock, a new Hard Mode – “very intense,” says Johnson – and 31 classic music remixes and new tunes to discover – “I’m never getting off the funk train,” quips the dev – plus returning and original minigames to play (which reward you with new gear and abilities), Back In The Groove! should be ‘all that with cheese’.