Pupperazi Review

The sound of everyone’s mental anguish melting away is a good starting point for pretty much anything, and Pupperazi manages to do that from its title screen. The low-poly, and resoundingly glorious dog that meets you is merely the start of your journey into Pupperazi, a game about taking pictures of dogs. By the end of this short and sweet quest, you’ll probably be billing developer Sundae Month for sound effects work, as your cries of joy become an unavoidable soundtrack to their canine camera caper.

As premises go, Pupperazi is relatively limited. Inspired by a world obsessed with taking snaps of everything, and the goodest of good boys and girls, it’s a match made in (dog) heaven. While they allegedly all go there anyway, you can now join them, taking your trusty camera along for the ride and snapping pups in a variety of locations, poses, and activities. If you’re an Alsatian auteur, or a Schnauzer shutterbug, then this will likely be the greatest moment of your life. If you’re more interested in taking shots at a distant enemy in Call of Duty: Warzone then you can probably stop reading now.

Much like similarly snap-happy titles like Pokémon Snap, Pupperazi is a relatively chill experience. Once you’ve acclimatised to your new-found situation – dogs want their pictures taken, and people on the internet want to see them – you’re given a series of tasks to work your way through, with your pictures providing the proof of your actions.

Successfully completing them gains you more followers on Dognet, the game’s social media platform, and as you progress you unlock new lenses and film types to tinker with, as well as new locations to traipse around taking pictures of dogs. Some of these tasks are straightforward, like taking a picture of a dog while crouching down, while other tasks will have you collecting trash and photographing a newly clean skate park as it reopens.

There’s literally dogs everywhere. And no humans, which is probably for the best. There’s Pugs, Westies, Labs, and a whole range of breeds between, and they’re all going about their business, whether that’s unaccompanied walkies, riding a scooter, or playing a few games in the video arcade. The dogs here are minimally animated, which is to say, their legs don’t move as they bounce around doing things. Pupperazi isn’t exactly realistic, but you’ll wish it was.

There’s no time limits, or rating systems, making progression feel fluid and unobtrusive, though once you’ve warmed to the game’s core systems you’ll realise that there’s not all that much to it. Pupperazi lives and dies on its simple charms, and the hope that you’ll be consistently won over by throwing balls and frisbees for angular dogs who’ll go wild fetching them. Chances are you will be.

There’s a variety of interactive objects, with the dogs at the centre of it all. In a bid to answer the internet’s number one question, you can of course pet the dog in Pupperazi. They love it when you do, with hearts popping out of their heads. A few more strokes will see those hearts start pouring out of them like steam from a locomotive, and they’ll chase you around for a while having become utterly enamoured with you. If you want to feel good about yourself you can do this with a big group of doggos, becoming the centre of their entire world. A quick snap of this and you’ll be set for days.

Source: https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2022/01/24/pupperazi-review-xbox-game-pass/