Early on in Supreme League of Patriots - Issue 3: Ice Cold in Ellis, there’s a throw-away joke made about how The Purple Patriot’s costume contains a pair of shoes with bells on as little pixie boots was the only thing he could find to match his ludicrous outfit. For the rest of the game, he makes little ringing noises whenever he walks.
It’s commendable commitment to a joke and, in a lot of ways, sums up not only the third episode, but the series as a whole. It’s not a wholly original premises -- pair up an odd couple with violently opposing political leanings and then poke fun at anything and everything. Patriots isn’t above lampooning itself, its cast of characters or the genre that spawns it, providing a shotgun approach to mockery that I can’t help but enjoy. It’s also equally fair-handed with how it spreads out its attacks: so many games who slap targets on exaggerated caricatures of strong political views let bias slip in and act more aggressively towards one side than the other. The game’s main character, The Purple Patriot is a heavily republican idiot -- but he’s not an idiot because of his world view; he’s an idiot because he’s a bumbling fool. And he’s surrounded by liberals.
This is mostly embodied by his unwilling sidekick, Melvin, who tags along out of obligation and the certainty that his friend would end up killing himself if left alone to his own devices for too long. It’s an interesting dynamic that has time to be fully explored as so much of Supreme League of Patriots wraps the puzzles up in dialogue rather than inventory combinations. It’s not always the case, and relying on random items found around the scene has certainly been on the rise since the first episode, but it’s a nice change of pace to watch solutions start coming together through talking to the right person and trying to manipulate your way through the conversation.
Staff review by Gary Hartley (February 06, 2015)
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