If you’re smart about it, you could grab hold of the control stick with one hand and keep hold of your delivery with the other in order to minimise potential damage, but this is much harder to accomplish in practice. Each vehicle has a single control stick you can grab hold of with either hand, and you simply move the corresponding analogue stick in any direction to move around. The prospect of controlling such a wide variety of vehicles in the game is initially quite intriguing, but you’ll quickly come to learn that nearly all of them operate in the same way (which is to say, very poorly). So, at various points in the game, you have to hold down all four shoulder buttons at the same time, which is as uncomfortable as it sounds.
In order to grab hold of packages, you’ll need to hold both buttons down, but then in addition to this, you’ll also need to hold down L and R to actually lift your arms up in the air. You directly control both of your arms, with the left mapped to ZL and the right mapped to ZR. Granted, the game deliberately throws as many obstacles in your way as it possibly can, including exploding manholes and tree trunks rolling down hills, but even a simple task like picking up a box and hauling it into the back of a truck is infuriatingly complex. The simple act of delivering your packages is no better. If so, we’re not impressed, and we don't think you will be, either. It’s baffling that the devs got such basic controls mixed up like this – our best guess is that these are the controls from the Xbox version, and they simply forgot to change them when bringing the game to the Switch, but a small part of us feels like they intentionally mixed the controls around to screw with players even more. We’re not sure whether this was intentional or not, but these instructions are blatantly incorrect in reality, jumping is mapped to A, and diving is mapped to B. Like many games, Totally Reliable Delivery Service lets you know the basic controls via simple pops ups as you’re walking around – it tells you that you can jump by pressing B, and dive by pressing A. Things get pretty hairy right from the start. Either way, you’re going to have a pretty bad time. Or, if you wish, you can simply flex your muscles and carry the packages around manually.
You’ll have access to a wide range of vehicles to assist in this task, including trucks, forklifts, helicopters, boats, and even hot air balloons.
#XBOX ONE TOTALLY RELIABLE DELIVERY SERVICE DRIVER#
You take on the role of a delivery driver within a bland, ugly open-world consisting of a group of small islands, tasked with delivering packages to their intended destinations in the quickest time possible whilst minimising damage. It really feels, though, that We’re Five Games are playing some kind of elaborate joke with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, because this is one of the most frustratingly awkward, broken games we’ve played in ages, and we get the distinct feeling that this was the developer's intention – at least, to a certain degree.
Normally, a game’s quality – or lack thereof in many cases – is a direct result of budgetary limitations, time restrictions, unexpected bugs, and many, many more variables. We’re quite sure game devs don’t go out of their way to make a bad game. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
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