To be fair the bosses do start to get better at discouraging that tactic and their arenas start to get other ways to hit them to make the fight a touch more involved, but perhaps the intent was to make a game that could be played without much fast-paced opposition so players could more easily experience the humorous writing and the battles are usually inoffensive enough not to ruin that angle. There is some escalation in the competency of the enemies as you progress deeper in an experience that probably won’t even take three hours to finish even with optional content engaged with, but only a few moments ever really evolve beyond the need to jab your sword into an enemy, some bosses even easy enough to beat by standing beside them and prodding them. Most enemies are fairly simplistic, walking towards you or repeating a simple movement pattern so it’s less like you’re fighting them and more about quickly poking them to clear away a minor danger. When you’re not speaking with the quirky cast you’ll usually be solving puzzles or fighting simple creatures in this top-down action game, your main tools being a watering can used for interacting with special plants and a sword that handles the small amount of fighting on offer. Having some substance underneath all of the wackiness was probably a wise decision as most of the game coasts by on the story and humor, the gameplay and activities involved in Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion fairly tame. The game still manages to mostly maintain a light and humorous tone, but the origins of a society filled with goofy talking vegetables and fruits adds a bit of serious intrigue for a bit without the game fully abandoning its major focus on jokes and strange character behavior.
Characters will give him important notes or letters and simply seeing the word “tax” on it makes him want to tear it up, this soon just extending to any paperwork even if it has pretty important details about the game’s oddly dark history. Interaction is often an important part of making progress in the game, but one of the funnier running jokes involves Turnip Boy’s instinctual reaction to anything involving taxation. A pickle jar mafioso, a beet into video game streaming, and an explorer avocado stand out but even the smaller characters might reference an internet meme or just have something funny to say if you stop to talk with them. Turnip Boy’s adventure involves him running into many small characters with their own little quirks, and since Turnip Boy is a poor conversational partner and usually only speaks in the form of reactionary punctuation marks, they carry much of the conversation by showing off their little oddities. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a silly adventure that feels much in the vein of a show like Adventure Time, carrying on that cartoon’s elements of a colorful fantasy world where characters often talk casually and use surprisingly modern technology while still having fights involving swords and monsters. This work usually involves heading to some dangerous area to grab some item the mayor requested, so without much choice in the matter, the turnip hero takes off to interact with other living vegetables and fruits, fight off animals like snails and rabbits that view him as a snack, and most importantly still try and stick it to the man while unfortunately working for him. Turnip Boy’s greenhouse home is one day taken from him by Mayor Onion, the mayor asserting that since Turnip Boy hasn’t paid any taxes he must do some community service if he wants his house back.
While often thought of as a rather stuffy form of white collar crime, Turnip Boy’s particular form of tax evasion is the impetus for his short little adventure across a world populated by living plant people. Turnip Boy’s anti-establishment leanings are certainly more silly than anarchic, a fairly easy to infer aspect of the goofy little character thanks to his starring role being in the oddly named Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. If Turnip Boy ever heard the Benjamin Franklin quote “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”, the mischievous little sentient turnip would not only object to its premise but likely take umbrage with the fact a statesman spoke with any authority on any subject.
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