{"id":11589,"date":"2022-12-13T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/should-you-stab-gene-in-high-on-life\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:32:14","slug":"should-you-stab-gene-in-high-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/13\/should-you-stab-gene-in-high-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you stab Gene in High on Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stabbing Gene in High on Life is just one of the many random impulsive moments that the game throws your way, but that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. From the start you&#8217;re thrown in at the deep end, gunning down random aliens and becoming a bounty hunter in space without too much second thought. Will your actions eventually catch up with you? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve completed your first bounty job to hunt down 9-Torg and retrieve the talking knife, you&#8217;ll arrive back at the house to find Gene surprised you&#8217;re still alive. Knifey will ask you to stab Gene\u2014since that&#8217;s what Knifey does with everyone\u2014and you&#8217;ll have the choice to leave him alone, or to wander up and interact with him to deliver a stab.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a more cautious player, despite the spirit of the game, you probably decided to look it up to check what the knock-on consequences would be. That said, here&#8217;s whether you should stab Gene in High on Life, and what the consequences will be if you do.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens if you stab Gene?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Squanch Games)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In typical Rick and Morty style, High on Life isn&#8217;t the sort of game that would make you take responsibility for your actions, and as such you can safely stab Gene. I say safely since, even though you stab him with the knife, he&#8217;ll shrug it off and be back to normal the next minute, saying that he&#8217;s survived worse.<\/p>\n<p>Just as with choosing to kill 5-Torg, it doesn&#8217;t seem like High on Life is going to blame you for doing impulsive, reckless stuff, since that&#8217;s what the game is centred around. In fact, stabbing Gene actually gives you an achievement: Don&#8217;t Knife the Hand That Feeds You. So, if you&#8217;re a completionist, you&#8217;ll need to knife poor Gene. Also <strong>make sure you stab Gene before leaving the house if you&#8217;re going to<\/strong>, as you won&#8217;t get another chance if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Should you stab Gene in High on Life?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Stabbing Gene in High on Life is just one of the many random impulsive moments that the game throws your way, but that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. From the start you&#8217;re thrown in at the deep end, gunning down random aliens and becoming a bounty hunter in space without too much second thought. Will your actions eventually catch up with you? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve completed your first bounty job to hunt down 9-Torg and retrieve the talking knife, you&#8217;ll arrive back at the house to find Gene surprised you&#8217;re still alive. Knifey will ask you to stab Gene\u2014since that&#8217;s what Knifey does with everyone\u2014and you&#8217;ll have the choice to leave him alone, or to wander up and interact with him to deliver a stab.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a more cautious player, despite the spirit of the game, you probably decided to look it up to check what the knock-on consequences would be. That said, here&#8217;s whether you should stab Gene in High on Life, and what the consequences will be if you do.<\/p>\n<h2>What happens if you stab Gene?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Squanch Games)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In typical Rick and Morty style, High on Life isn&#8217;t the sort of game that would make you take responsibility for your actions, and as such you can safely stab Gene. I say safely since, even though you stab him with the knife, he&#8217;ll shrug it off and be back to normal the next minute, saying that he&#8217;s survived worse.<\/p>\n<p>Just as with choosing to kill 5-Torg, it doesn&#8217;t seem like High on Life is going to blame you for doing impulsive, reckless stuff, since that&#8217;s what the game is centred around. In fact, stabbing Gene actually gives you an achievement: Don&#8217;t Knife the Hand That Feeds You. So, if you&#8217;re a completionist, you&#8217;ll need to knife poor Gene. Also <strong>make sure you stab Gene before leaving the house if you&#8217;re going to<\/strong>, as you won&#8217;t get another chance if you don&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}