Recordkeeping: Hiiro COMPLETE

[xyzzysqrl]

It's been a running gag in the small chat clan I'm in that Steam's algorithm finds the games Chroma Squad and Hiiro to be similar to every other game humans have created since the dawn of time. Now that I've played both of them, I expect Steam's secretmost compartment to unlock and present to me the True Games, the ones scholars whisper of. I will play these games and reach my fingers through the seams around me to manually turn the gears over which our reality is but a facade.

I'll probably get my fingers stuck in there too, because ow gears ow.

Anyway Hiiro is pretty good, fullstop end review.

...

sigh.

Hiiro is a pretty good peaceful exploration platformer with a number of small hidden secrets. In a world where... something bad happened, your job as "the red guy" is to go collect a bunch of golden cubes and stuff will happen the end. The music didn't agree with me and I got irritatingly stuck for a couple hours looking for that one last cube, but on the whole this was not bad or unpleasant and I quite enjoyed the experience.

Also there's a bonus boss but that did seem bad and unpleasant and I decided to skip out on it.

Comments

[kjorteo]

The bonus boss is... kind of antithetical to the rest of the peaceful tranquil combat-free exploration-based Hiiro experience, but that's why it's a bonus boss and not supposed to be part of the actual game. (I mentioned in my review elsewhere that I personally don't think they did quite good enough a job separating the two, but I get what they meant and so it's a relatively minor complaint.) So yeah, that is entirely fair.

Apologies the music didn't agree with you (valid, though) but I'm glad you otherwise enjoyed the experience. Yay, enjoyable experiences. *hug*