Towelket One More Time 5 Review

Towelket One More Time 5: Gaugau's Bride is the 7th entry in the Towelket series, released on November 12, 2010. This is considered to be the true version of Towelket 5, as Towelket 5 Classic was never completed and Towelket Fury was removed shortly after its release.

The story of Towelket 5 begins with Pucchi and her sister Agochu arguing about what's in the center of the Earth. Determined to prove her sister wrong, Pucchi decides to dig all the way to the Earth's core. As it turns out, her silly journey ends up setting off a chain of events that causes the Earth to stop spinning. In the midst of all this, a girl named Roppenchu gets caught up in this mess after being confessed to by her classmate. Seeing that the surface of the Earth has been completely destroyed, she decides that she has nothing better to do than to travel to the depths of the Earth.

Compared to the previous games in the series, Towelket 5 takes a much more comedic approach to its story and characters. I almost want to call it a parody of the Towelket series as a whole, although it somehow lacks any recognizable formula that the previous games had for me to confidently label it as such. But this game focuses more on the humorous aspects of Towelket rather than developing its plot, which I don't think is an inherently flawed approach. But humor is extremely subjective, personally I just didn't find this game very funny.

This is a game that knows what it is and what it's doing, and in a way I feel like I can't fault it for what it's trying to do. There is clear effort that went into making this game, that much is apparent from the shiny new portrait style and brand new characters. It is without a doubt, one big shitpost in game form.

But something about the style of humor in this game just didn't click for me. There were a lot of jokes that should have been right up my alley, but in execution it just felt like they were several beats too long when the joke stopped being funny 5 minutes ago. It was like there wasn't a single joke that was actually allowed to speak for itself and there always had to be an extra 7 lines of dialogue to remind you that there's a joke happening here.

Of course, those are just my personal feelings in regards to this game’s humor. I don't doubt that this game is an absolute knee-slapper for someone else. But aside from the humor, Towelket 5 just doesn't have much to offer that makes it worth playing. There is an attempt at an actual plot towards the middle of the game, and it's not terrible, but it's also not really developed that much, since it's not the focus of the game in the first place. I wouldn't recommend playing the whole game just for that.

The characters are there, they do things, they say some jokes. Some of the newer characters were a little interesting, but we just don't see enough of them.

All I can say is play through the first hour or so of this game. If you find it funny then I recommend it, you will probably enjoy the rest of the game. If you don't find it funny, then feel free to stop there, you probably won't enjoy the rest of the game. It's not like this game is a completely irredeemable dumpster fire of an entry, but it was just kind of boring and underwhelming to me. This was like the Family Guy of Towelket games.

I rate this game 2/5 Towels