Remember all those stories about the Playstation 3 looking like some kind of toaster? Or was it a grill? A waffle iron? Some sort of grilling machine anyway, as a result of its rather large and curved exterior. Some fans even went so far as to stick George Foreman grills into their Playstation 3 cases to make actual grilling machines, seemingly just for the lols. We're not really sure where we're going with this, but we think there's some sort of irony in there that bread-to-life game I Am Bread will be bypassing its more toaster shaped brother, instead choosing the Playstation 4 as the perfect venue to cook up something tasty in Bossa Studio's carbtastic, local multiplayer friendly hit.
From the same school of hilariously awkward to control games as totally normal, everyday parenting simulator, Octodad, I Am Bread that tells the tale of one piece of bread's incredible journey to become toast. Unfortunately, simple toasters are so last year and unhip, and so the game mostly revolves around trying to find the craziest, and most unusual ways of toasting your bready self. I mean, for the creative mind, there's plenty of ways to make yourself slightly frazzled - why not leap under an iron? Smash your way through a car to get to the engine? Have a bit of an altercation with some hair straighteners? Essentially, anything goes, as long as it produces heat - and as long as you don't get yourself too covered in dust/mud/carpet fluff, and are at least semi-edible by the end.
This can only end well.
Much like Octodad, there's a deliberately awkward control scheme at play here, designed to make piloting your bread as tricky - and funny - as possible. With each corner of your slice controlled with a different one of the Playstation 4 controller's triggers/shoulder buttons, you'll need to waddle your way through each of the game's stages, flipping yourself over ledges, around door handles and across gaps with a flick of the right analogue stick. Also, for reasons known only to itself, each of your corners is sticky - letting you grab onto scenery and objects, or even scale walls like a starch-based spiderman, as you try your best to cook yourself on every available hot surface.
But there's more to I Am Bread than just a single slice's quest to be toasted, as the Playstation 4 version of the game comes with a whole host of extras. With a selection of different bread types to pick from, each with their own controls, missions and objectives to complete, you can try your hand at smashing everything in sight as a burly baguette, or rolling your bagel around a race course in record time - and of course, like every Playstation game, I Am Bread has a load of unique trophies to unlock, too.
He's behind me, isn't he, Mr. Squeeks?
I Am Bread will be hurling it's way onto the Playstation 4 "within the next couple of months", and should be in the "smaller area of price range", according to Bossa Studio's Game Designer, Luke Williams - and that's about as specific as we get, although the game did hit the PC earlier in the year at £9.99, so we imagine it'll be somewhere in that ballpark. The folks behind I Am Bread are celebrating the announcement in style too - with a rap to the tune of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme tune. And hey Bossa - if you're reading this, a PS Vita version would be nice, for those of us who have rubbish PCs and haven't made the leap to the Playstation 4 yet. Pretty please? With marmalade on top?
