When I worked in fine dining, we used to host these elaborate seven-course "wine dinners" where a winemaker would come in with cases of their stuff to show off, each bottle paired with a dinner course designed by the chef to accentuate the offering. There was a structure to the courses, with, if I recall correctly, the fifth course being an "intermezzo". This course was not paired with a wine and was meant to be a "palate cleanser" after four other flavorful courses, and to clear the taste buds for the courses ahead. It would usually be a nice sorbet dish with a cool garnish.
After some of those heavier action games I needed a videogame intermezzo, so there I am looking at Xbox Gamepass and I see a title called Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, which is one of the best titles I have seen since Communist Mutants From Space for the (Supercharger) Atari 2600. Sometimes a title just grabs you, so I looked at the game's description and screenshots and decided to try it out.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion plays in the top-down Adventure style, similar to the first Legend of Zelda, and the story features a cute vegetable character that loses his home due to, yep, tax evasion, and then goes on a quest to not only get his home back but to end the corrupt rule of Mayor Onion. NPCs are other fruits and veggies that usually need something and help move the story along.
Is there high social commentary here? Maybe, but it's lighthearted and our little anarchist turnip is so cute that it's okay if the message is not beating you over the head. It's an absolute delight ripping up every document you find, and also very funny. The combat works and the quest plays out quickly.
So let this article be sort of an intermezzo as well, before I write up the next game I beat. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a funny, quick and relatively easy adventure and I highly recommend it. There you go, palate cleansed.
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