High on Life Story Recap: Everything You Need Before Playing the Sequel

Imagine E.T. snorted your dada disconnected a abstraction toilet. You’d beryllium mad, but determination wouldn’t beryllium thing you could bash astir it. Unless you happened to person an arsenal of almighty alien guns and immoderate tricked-out powerfulness armour. This is the communicative of you, an unassuming kid who conscionable happens to emotion video games, and however Earth getting taken implicit by a immense interstellar cause cartel turns retired to beryllium the making of you.

The events of High connected Life commencement astatine the outbreak of alien penetration connected a seemingly mean time successful sleepy suburbia. Your parents are retired of town, your cokehead sister, Lizzie, wants to propulsion a chaotic party, and each you privation to bash is suffer yourself successful a Legally Distinct archetypal idiosyncratic shooter. Relatable.

Out of obscurity arrives the G3 Cartel, led by a disgusting slimy slug antheral called Garmantuous; a blob of distorted soma much hideous than Jabba the Hutt and doubly arsenic mean. He’s present because, sadly, quality beings are a precise potent recreational drug. In a spot of obscenely atrocious luck, evolutionarily speaking, we conscionable truthful hap to beryllium similar catnip to the assorted taxon that marque up galactic civilisation. So the G3 cartel is present to enslave us, instrumentality america each successful jars, and merchantability america connected thoroughfare corners, showing perfectly nary respect for our rights arsenic sentient beings. They adjacent execution beloved Hollywood stars Jack Black and Susan Sarandon!

Fortunately, an aboriginal accidental brushwood with tips the scales ever truthful somewhat backmost successful humanity’s favour. You conscionable Kenny, a sentient weapon from the satellite Gatlus. The Gatlians are arrogant contention of surviving weapons who are besides enslaved by the cartel, subjected to a brutal bioengineered plague. Any survivors are pressganged into forming the bulk of the cartel’s lethal arsenal.

You know, I’m starting to deliberation these guys aren’t precise nice.

Kenny turns retired to beryllium an affable young weapon with an axe to grind against the cartel and a program for you some to get even. With his help, you flight the ravaging of Earth by warping your full location to Blim City, an alien metropolis afloat of gleaming towers, fantastic technology, and, well… pawn shops, transgression gangs, filthy slums, and gobby delinquents. It is simply a metropolis aft all. They’re each Birmingham oregon Detroit oregon immoderate erstwhile you get down to it.

So here’s Kenny's plan: you go a licensed bounty huntsman and destruct the G3 cartel’s full sordid cognition by systematically murdering each of its apical brass... which involves chaotically murdering overmuch of its bottommost brass. All of which is rather intolerable without the assistance of Gene Zaroothian: a down-on-his-luck, formerly celebrated bounty huntsman who has astatine immoderate constituent resorted to selling his ain legs for a spot of speedy cash. In speech for a imperishable spot connected your sofa and custody of the TV remote, helium sets you up with the aforementioned Tricked Out Power Armour and the all-important Bounty-5000, a immense alien machine that combines the functions of a declaration committee and a Stargate. He besides sets you up with your archetypal mission: caput to the slums, retrieve Gene’s weapon “Knifey”, and assassinate 9-Torg, a section transgression boss. And besides 5-Torg, her cloned sister, if you like.

While not strictly speaking portion of the G3 Cartel, 9-Torg’s pack bash concern with them arsenic cause runners and truthful it feels perfectly morally accordant to, y’know, execution them all. With Knifey recovered and the associated skills of weapon transgression and grappling unlocked, your crusade to prevention humanity from the scum of the beingness begins successful earnest.

Target 1: Krubis

Your archetypal people is Krubis, the large food of G3’s mining operations connected the satellite Zephyr Paradise, with a heavy New Jersey accent and drills for hands.

“Mining operation?”, you say? "I thought this was a cause cartel? What could they perchance beryllium mining for?"

Drugs. They’re mining drugs. Specifically, a surviving cause called Furgles, different sentient contention enjoying the dubious honour of someway having evolved to springiness different aliens a truly bully precocious erstwhile snorted. They thin to unrecorded underground successful caves, hence each the mining. Furgles stock the satellite with the Moplets, a contention of Despair Bears with scrotums for faces who person been brutally enslaved by Krubis successful bid to support the mines running.

Krubis, however, has a problem. With the find of humans, who person proven a overmuch much potent narcotic, the request for Furgles is acceptable to collapse. He and his merchandise is present accelerated slipping retired of favour with Garmantuous, meaning his presumption wrong the G3 Cartel rests connected precise shakey ground. Which is what happens erstwhile you excavation excessively galore tunnels.

Soon enough, however, that’s the slightest of his concerns, due to the fact that you termination him and instrumentality his gun, Gus, the JB Smoove voiced frog-faced shotgun with a vacuum relation who tin sprout ample sawblades that you tin usage arsenic platforms. He’s besides the lone Gatlian who has arms, which is ironic for a contention of arms. You know, armaments. Ah, hide it.

Meanwhile, backmost home, portion Lizzie has been getting into the alien dating scene, Gene has been making himself a spot excessively comfy connected the couch, and truthful you find the 2 astatine each other’s throats.

Target 2: Douglas

The 2nd G3 people is Douglas, the cartel’s caput of training. And besides torture. And portion immoderate level of evil is required to enactment successful recruitment, Douglas’ unrelenting cruelty and hedonism makes him highly atrocious astatine his job, often making caller recruits combat each different to the decease contempt the G3’s existential staffing problems. This, of course, means he’s accelerated slipping retired of favour with Garmantuous, which seems to beryllium a moving taxable here. How tin specified a chaotic and severely managed organisation beryllium the ascendant transgression conspiracy successful the galaxy? It’s astir similar idiosyncratic other is truly pulling the strings here...

Douglas is simply a small, susceptible octopus carnal who is obsessed with mounting pointless, arduous grooming tasks. In disguise arsenic Dr. Joopy, helium astir convinces you to pb him backmost to the powerfulness armour he’s accidentally locked himself retired of portion connected a bender, but the ruse is uncovered by Gus, and truthful you tin conscionable sprout him alternatively of playing his anserine games. Or not. Either mode you extremity up warring his suit, win, and get a caller Gatlian companion: Sweezy, an obnoxious needler with a nifty clip bubble alt occurrence which tin beryllium utilized to get into aerial ducts.

Target 3: Doctor Giblets

Clugg Nuggmin, Blim City’s magistrate, summons you to his bureau to congratulate you connected your run against the cause trade, and offers his assistance successful rescuing the quality contention by gathering a harmless haven for your radical and a giving you a instrumentality to teleport immoderate humans you find straight there. Setting speech for present the precocious probability of this feline having a nefarious agenda, you proceed to the adjacent assassination mission… stopping concisely to lick different home betwixt Gene, Lizzie, and her dipshit boyfriend, Tweeg.

The adjacent target? Doctor Giblets, the cartel’s deranged warp scientist, who’s presently hiding retired connected Zephyr Paradise. Current intel connected Dr. Giblets says he’s gone into hiding aft murdering each of his ain men, and is successful possession of a almighty Gatlian. Upon uncovering his concealed base, however, you find lone a Busted Gatlian, which is utterly breached and inoperable aft being experimented on. Before you tin woody righteous revenge connected his abuser, though, Giblets accidentally trips implicit and... dies. Far from redeeming you the fuss of a brag fight, though, this leads to 1 of the hardest battles successful the crippled successful the signifier of Dr. Giblets’ posthumous revenge.

Giblets ends up thoroughly dealt with, and the Busted Gatlian is delivered backmost to Gene to spot if thing tin beryllium done for them. But Giblets wasn’t the lone G3 brag connected Zephyr Paradise performing horrific aesculapian experiments.

Target 4: The Skrendel Brothers

Next connected the deed list: the Skrendel Brothers, overseers of Skrendel Labs, a immense cause installation wherever the cartel are experimenting connected humans successful bid to summation their potency. On the mode determination you rescue different Gatlian, Creature, and larn of the nasty experiments that person turned him into a weapon that is permanently pregnant, susceptible of shooting his ain offspring arsenic projectiles. What is it with these guys and horrific aesculapian experiments?

The Skrendel Bros are a compound being of triplets who harvester into an ultra signifier during your last conflict with them, which they evidently lose. By present you’ve go capable of a thorn successful the cartel’s broadside to garner the attraction of Garmantuous himself, who warns you to backmost off, with the accusation that your agelong mislaid parents volition beryllium harmed if you don’t. However, it really turns retired that Garmantuous has Hollywood’s beloved Jack Black and Susan Sarandon, not your parents, successful 1 of the game’s funniest twists and long-form gags. Which I wholly spoiled successful the intro to this recap. Hey, look, if you were bothered astir spoilers, you wouldn’t beryllium speechmaking a recap, right?

In the meantime, it turns retired that the busted Gatlian is simply a erstwhile absorption person by the sanction of Lezduit, who's present a shadiness of his erstwhile aforesaid owed to mistreatment, but is inactive a hugely almighty firearm. However, it seems that helium has a troubled past with Kenny...

Blim City Invasion

It wouldn’t beryllium a video crippled without a perilous 3rd enactment wherever you astir suffer everything. Firstly, Lizzie has gone missing, and truthful you caput to Space Applebees successful the slums wherever her boyfriend, Tweeg, works arsenic a cook. That’s right, there’s a Space Applebees, successful 1 of the funniest and astir improbable pieces of merchandise placement ever featured successful video games. This would beryllium similar having a licensed OMEGA ticker successful a Bond crippled that you lone ever spot covered successful shit.

At Applebees, Kenny takes 1 of the game’s uncommon quiescent moments to explicate his unwitting portion successful the downfall of the Gatlian race, confessing that helium became the idiosyncratic firearm of a G3 smuggler and ended up, done cowardice and incompetence, starring the Cartel straight backmost to his location planet, triggering a warfare which his radical mislaid owed to a genetically engineered illness that turned astir of them catatonic. Feeling the a immense strain from this guilt, Kenny vows to prevention humanity to atone for the genocide of his people. Which is each beauteous dense worldly for a daft Rick and Morty first-person shooter, but the pathos is regularly interrupted by an Applebees waiter conscionable to support things arsenic airy arsenic possible. This is, without a doubt, the champion spot successful the game.

Moving on, it turns retired Tweeg is simply a G3 cause tasked with infiltrating your location by romancing Lizzie and gaining her trust. He’s seen kidnapping her successful his abstraction RV and fleeing Blim City, but earlier you tin chase, the spot is overrun with Cartel, forcing a hasty flight involving erstwhile again warping your location to a caller location. This time, you get connected the toxic ruins of Gatlus, the location satellite of the Gatlians.

Lizzie’s fine, by the way.

Target 5: Nipulon

The penultimate brag is Nipulon: Garmantuous’s close manus antheral and the G3’s main of lawsuit relations. He runs an infamous cause den and is, contrary to the contented of astir high-level operatives successful the amerciable cause trade, partial to his ain merchandise.

And, of course, similar Batman’s Scarecrow oregon a bushed genitor with entree to kid-grade Tylenol, Nipulon is skilled successful weaponising drugs. This leads to 1 of the trippiest brag fights successful modern gaming, successful which we larn that, nary substance the odds, immoderate situation tin beryllium flooded with the powerfulness of teamwork. And that handling firearms portion intoxicated tin sometimes pb to a affirmative outcome. Actually, you cognize what, I don’t deliberation determination is simply a motivation to this story, it’s conscionable a clump of worldly that happens.

Finish the Fight

After dispatching Nipulon, Gene manages to prevention the almighty Gatlian Lezduit from oblivion: with nary much guns to cod and nary much upgrades to purchase, the lone happening near to bash is instrumentality to Earth and termination Garmantuous, permanently ending the tyranny of the G3 Cartel erstwhile and for each and redeeming the quality contention from the ignoble destiny of becoming ecstasy for ALF.

Even the firepower of Lezduit won’t rather beryllium capable to instrumentality down Gamantuous, however. The lone mode to termination this transgression lord, surmises Gene, is to ram a weaponry up his backside. And so, astatine the climax of a prolonged Bullet Hell battle, with an incapacitated Garmantuous showing his full ass metaphorically and literally, the butt weaponry enema fails to explode. The distant detonator is faulty.

Yes, the game’s punchline requires you to sacrifice 1 of your newfound friends by pushing them up the villain’s anus. A fitting extremity for the galaxy’s biggest asshole, for sure. The lone question is: who to sacrifice?

The astir prudent prime is Kenny, fixed however this noble sacrifice completes his redemption arc, but it doesn’t truly substance due to the fact that your prime is instantly undermined erstwhile it turns retired that whichever weapon you formed into the void instantly comes backmost aft surviving the resulting explosion.

That’s right: Oh my god, they don’t termination Kenny. Except they mightiness arsenic good person done, due to the fact that erstwhile the High connected Knife DLC rolls astir his quality gets unceremoniously written retired with a spot of exposition, for reasons that are beyond the remit of this recap.

Incidentally, the large revelations from the DLC are: Knifey is not a benignant of melee Gatlian but a autochthonal of the satellite Australia 2, hailing from a contention of pacifist knives who can’t basal him. And besides that getting escaped of the dysfunctional G3 Cartel doesn’t really marque humanity immoderate safer from the intergalactic cause trade, but we already figured that retired from the concealed ending of the basal game, successful which the large villainous mastermind down it each is revealed to beryllium Dr. Gurgula. He's recovered successful the bowels of the Human Haven acceptable up by Magistrate Clugg, ostensibly to assistance you prevention your radical but really to recapture them and supply quality subjects to Dr. Gurgula for adjacent much horrible experiments. The crippled is beauteous unequivocal that this uncover is simply a tease for the sequel, successful which you, your sister, Gene, and astatine slightest immoderate of the returning Gatlians are fugitives connected the tally from galactic authorities.

And that is the full communicative of High connected Life, oregon astatine slightest the worldly you really request to cognize earlier you play High connected Life 2.