Jay and Silent Bob first appeared within the 1994 grunge movie Clerks as eccentric weed sellers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, lengthy haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative lengthy haired slacker. They have been cult figures within the ’90s. Most of my teenage mates thought they have been very humorous, and Clerks remains to be a enjoyable time capsule of the early ’90s.
However like a number of ’90s phenomena, Jay and Silent Bob rapidly contorted into parody. They’ve spawned not less than three standalone movies, every extra foolish than the final. In addition they reliably characteristic in each one among Kevin Smith’s View Asknewiverse movies, from Clerks all over to Clerks 3, but in addition taking in Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma, simply to call a handful.
Extra just lately they’ve began getting their very own videogames: Jay and Silent Bob Mall Brawl is a 2020 sidescrolling beat ’em up developed for NES but in addition ported to PC and consoles. In April, Atari revealed Jay and Silent Bob: Persistent Blunt Punch, which can be a sidescrolling beat ’em up however with a contemporary comedian e-book presentation. There are additionally two Jay and Silent Boss cellphone video games, and an in-development VR recreation, and so they each cameoed in Black Ops 6. Discuss promoting out!
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Now they’re again once more: Jay and Silent Bob’s Joint Enterprise is a comfortable farming sim about working a farm. “Armed with some outdated instruments, a handful of seeds, and a few questionable enterprise companions, you may flip a trashed yard right into a thriving weed enterprise,” the Steam description reads. “Get your fingers soiled doing issues the way in which it was once finished earlier than company hashish moved to city – slinging dank dimes exterior the Fast Cease!”
So it is a farming sim about rising weed. You will get to experiment with rising totally different kinds of weed, improve your own home from hovel to pad, work together with “dozens of characters” from Kevin Smith’s movies, and go to a bunch of locations you may recognise from Clerks: the Mall, RST Video and Jay and Silent Bob’s beloved Fast Cease. It additionally has dumpster diving although, in equity, so does Stardew Valley.
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Joint Enterprise is developed by Starworks Studios, accountable for the 3D platformer Timeworks and the nonetheless forthcoming Boast Guards. It is set to launch on Steam a while in 2027.
I suppose the query is: is there a lot starvation for Jay and Silent Bob video games? It definitely would not seem like it. Neither Persistent Blunt Punch or Mall Brawl made a lot of a dent upon launch, not less than on Steam. Joint Enterprise appears to lean quite a bit on writing, which is perhaps what followers of Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse would like. I suppose we’ll discover out a while subsequent 12 months.
