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xyzzysqrlLast night I "finished" Red the Hunter, except not really. There was a final boss fight, the credits rolled... and it told me that I had finished the first story, but there was a second if I loaded my save data again. I don't think I'm going to, though. Not right now, anyway.
It's a beautiful game. The music is beautiful, the art is amazing, the characters are lovable. At the core it's about a dog-man in a mecha suit, which touches on so many of my yay-buttons. Everyone 'speaks' French in the voice clips. The world is just NICE. It's a nice place to live. You can race mecha-planes, or go fishing with an enormous harpoon gun for hermit crabs that wear battleships as shells. They took ten years to plan and make this game, and it shows in every little detail of the world.
I honestly wish they had taken their immense creativity and beautiful artwork and made an animated movie out of it, because it's a terrible game. It's about A: Moving boxes onto things, B: Flipping enemies over by mashing one button as fast as you can, or C: Trying to get through pages of overexplaining dialogue by mashing one button as fast as you can. And it OVEREXPLAINS everything. Even in the penultimate dungeon, I was whimpering at conversations like:
"Hmm. A door is in our way!"
"Maybe we can open it somehow?"
"Yes, there's a switch over there! If we put something heavy on it..."
"But the switch is green! We'll need a green object! Is there anything like that around here?"
*CAMERA PANS SLOWLY TO A GREEN HEAVY OBJECT*
I don't usually go "Hey this game is bright and cartoony maybe it's just for young kids", but maybe this one is. Except if I gave it to a 10 year old (as the packaging suggests) I would feel like I was being CONDESCENDING. "You probably can't handle anything more complicated." That's not the statement I want to make.
Maybe it gets better in the second story. Maybe they assume that if you were good enough to see the credits on part one, you can handle part two without a SINGLE extended conversation on how BASIC GAME MECHANICS work. So I'm leaving this in the draw pile, and if I pull it again I'll do part two. Right now, I need to find something that will have some basic confidence in me, that will trust that I understand what I'm doing and didn't solve the PREVIOUS fifty puzzles by some FLUKE or ACCIDENT. A game that respects my intelligence.
Hat?
Orrrr I could play a Rare collectathon platformer? I guess? ... I've never actually really played this. Oh boy... This could be good or bad.
See you next time.
It's a beautiful game. The music is beautiful, the art is amazing, the characters are lovable. At the core it's about a dog-man in a mecha suit, which touches on so many of my yay-buttons. Everyone 'speaks' French in the voice clips. The world is just NICE. It's a nice place to live. You can race mecha-planes, or go fishing with an enormous harpoon gun for hermit crabs that wear battleships as shells. They took ten years to plan and make this game, and it shows in every little detail of the world.
I honestly wish they had taken their immense creativity and beautiful artwork and made an animated movie out of it, because it's a terrible game. It's about A: Moving boxes onto things, B: Flipping enemies over by mashing one button as fast as you can, or C: Trying to get through pages of overexplaining dialogue by mashing one button as fast as you can. And it OVEREXPLAINS everything. Even in the penultimate dungeon, I was whimpering at conversations like:
"Hmm. A door is in our way!"
"Maybe we can open it somehow?"
"Yes, there's a switch over there! If we put something heavy on it..."
"But the switch is green! We'll need a green object! Is there anything like that around here?"
*CAMERA PANS SLOWLY TO A GREEN HEAVY OBJECT*
I don't usually go "Hey this game is bright and cartoony maybe it's just for young kids", but maybe this one is. Except if I gave it to a 10 year old (as the packaging suggests) I would feel like I was being CONDESCENDING. "You probably can't handle anything more complicated." That's not the statement I want to make.
Maybe it gets better in the second story. Maybe they assume that if you were good enough to see the credits on part one, you can handle part two without a SINGLE extended conversation on how BASIC GAME MECHANICS work. So I'm leaving this in the draw pile, and if I pull it again I'll do part two. Right now, I need to find something that will have some basic confidence in me, that will trust that I understand what I'm doing and didn't solve the PREVIOUS fifty puzzles by some FLUKE or ACCIDENT. A game that respects my intelligence.
Hat?
Orrrr I could play a Rare collectathon platformer? I guess? ... I've never actually really played this. Oh boy... This could be good or bad.
See you next time.
