this is an odd one to be reviewing for sure, but i liked it enough to 100% it on steam so surely that counts for something
Wow! it's a henry stickman game what do you want me to say about it. literally every youtuber has played these games back in 2016, you dont really need me to tell you what it is
for the rock dwellers, it's a game where you pick an option, see if it fails, and if it does then you move onto the next one. it's a pretty decent gameplay loop, all things considered, even if it's more like you're watching a newground animation then actually playing the game. they did add a whole new game to it though so surely that counts for something
there are QTEs and the collection added a feature where you collect biographies of the various background characters, but there's not really much of a game here. i did enjoy most of my time with it though
as aforementioned, the game is more akin to watching a newgrounds animation than an actual game, but the animation is where it excells. everything's been done over with a fresh coat of paint from the flash games, and the animation is more stellar than ever. also there's like 200 bajillion other video game references, most of which are likely to make you exhale through your nose quickly. the music is also insanely good for a game of this caliber. but overall it's nothing to really write home about? it certainly has vibes but im not the kind of guy for this i think. flash was before my (internet) time.
there's so many stories here that me trying to write them out would result in incoherence and carpal tunnel, so im going to just say that there's a lot of different routes. undertale fans are gonna bust when they see this game lemme tell ya
i will make an exception for one story because i played through it and it wrecked me. rip charles, even though i could just have rewound time your death hit hard. that ending put me into a mourning state for like a week. shout out to the writers you did amazingly at that. "if you can make the reader laugh, you can make them cry".
this game is the sole reason among us took off as hard as it did when 2020 hit, change my mind
overall a really cool game, but im not entirely gung-ho about it. it certainly has a lot of merits, but overall it's not much of a game.
still a cool game tho