Sq. Enix’s new multiplayer shooter Foamstars is out now on PlayStation as part of PlayStation Plus, and there’s one query on the highest of everyone’s thoughts. Not “is the sport good?” That appears to be a convincing no (try our impressions for extra on that). The query is: The place precisely does the froth in Foamstars come from? Earlier than the sport even launched, there have been many comparisons of the froth— which is used as a projectile in matches—to different, um, human bodily fluids.
Now that the sport is out, there are much more questions (and extra raunchy comparisons). Based mostly on Foamstars’ restricted story mode, loading display screen ideas, and in-game dialogue, it seems that the froth is, the truth is, bodily fluid produced by the sport’s protagonists. However the story could be a little bit extra difficult than that.
The primary character gamers take management of is Soa, a pop idol and competitor within the Foamsmash match. In Soa’s story we study that as a younger woman, she actually hated her physique “for making foam.” Which means the manufacturing of froth is a bodily perform and foam is a bodily fluid, although Soa considering on the time that she was a freak additionally makes it clear that not everybody on this planet of Foamstars produces foam.
![A kid in an elevator being bullied for producing foam](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/8b19757e614ca09dd0a10e9a96a4e139.jpg)
The Foamstars themselves all seem like individuals who can produce and wield foam, although that is harnessed by means of particular foam/bubble weapons designed by scientists. Although it appears that evidently Soa is the one character who explicitly says she produces foam, the sport does loosely counsel that each one Foamstars produce foam, too, as all Foamsmash rivals use their distinctive foam talents.
And when you learn into the sport’s mechanics far more than it is best to within the hopes of gleaning any extra about foam manufacturing within the Foamstars universe, your curiosity could be piqued by one little element. As a substitute of reloading these foam weapons, there’s a liquid meter that’s depleted and replenished over time. How is it replenishing, precisely?
One factor that also confuses me is why it’s even known as foam within the first place. Soa is depicted as producing bubbles off of her physique in small flashback scenes as a child and bubbles are continuously referenced. Bubble weapons, bubble beasties, bubble power, Bubbleski, and Bathtub Vegas. It’s limitless. Bubble power is very complicated to me because it seems to be akin to nuclear energy on this planet of Foamstars, with the sport even exhibiting an enormous explosion as a hypothetical instance of what would occur if a bubble power core have been destroyed by bubble monsters. Is it foam or bubbles?
“Drive Foam,” which is described as “a diluted type of bubble power that pervades our lives, enhanced for optimum aeration and most enjoyable,” suggests foam comes from bubbles. Drive Foam additionally implies that scientists have discovered a solution to harness bubble power and make it into weapons or, going with the nuclear energy comparability, that bubble power has mutated some individuals on this planet of Foamstars into X-Males-like beings who all have the identical energy—producing foam. Perhaps it’s each! I’m nonetheless attempting to determine it out.
Did I miss any very important clues or tidbits from Foamstars that specify extra in regards to the foam or the world the sport takes place in? Please let me know. I’ve extra questions than solutions proper now.