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 had been cult figures within the ’90s. Most of my teenage pals thought they had been very humorous, and Clerks continues to be a enjoyable time capsule of the early ’90s.
However like lots of ’90s phenomena, Jay and Silent Bob shortly contorted into parody. They’ve spawned a minimum of three standalone movies, every extra foolish than the final. In addition they reliably characteristic in each one in all Kevin Smith’s View Asknewiverse movies, from Clerks right through 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: Continual Blunt Punch, which can also be a sidescrolling beat ’em up however with a contemporary comedian ebook presentation. There are additionally two Jay and Silent Boss cellphone video games, and an in-development VR sport, they usually 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 operating a farm. “Armed with some previous instruments, a handful of seeds, and a few questionable enterprise companions, you will flip a trashed yard right into a thriving weed enterprise,” the Steam description reads. “Get your arms soiled doing issues the way in which it was once executed 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 completely different sorts 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 will 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.
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 actually would not appear to be it. Neither Continual Blunt Punch or Mall Brawl made a lot of a dent upon launch, a minimum of on Steam. Joint Enterprise appears to lean rather a lot on writing, which is possibly what followers of Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse would like. I suppose we’ll discover out a while subsequent 12 months.
