Review Thread (spoilers) - Hector Episode 1: We Negotiate with Terrorists
Well played through it and my first thought is that this is obnoxious but not in a funny way.
The humor,story, and Hector himself almost made me stop playing the puzzles are ridiculously easy, and you telltale fans might be saying so was BTTF....
Yes but BTTF had a good story and funny humor to compensate for the lack of difficult puzzles.
This game is just pure annoyance and should have stayed on the app store.
The humor,story, and Hector himself almost made me stop playing the puzzles are ridiculously easy, and you telltale fans might be saying so was BTTF....
Yes but BTTF had a good story and funny humor to compensate for the lack of difficult puzzles.
This game is just pure annoyance and should have stayed on the app store.
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Now I gotta say that humor was nice and somewhat mature. Puzzles while being usually easy to figure out have some not so typical solutions than implied.
About four hours, give or take some minutes.
Great game!
I'm a sucker for anything "mature", but that time it was just puerile and all the gross things were just here for shock value and just to say "hey guys! it's a 17+ game!". The game felt like it was written by 16/17 years old who think condoms and piss are inherently funny...
Yeah but as the poster below you said, it seems to be there only for the shock factor and it does not work at all.
Let me explain a bit; the developers of Hector sometimes taken the assumption "gross == funny" which simply isn't true, but keep in mind that it's also wrong the "false-puritan" approach based on the opposite expression ("funny == !gross") that many use in search of a low PEGI rating.
What developers did seems to be a demonstration that sometimes "gross" is "funny", while sometimes not. (As a disclaimer: i speak of game situation not of entire games)
One major problem I encountered is that the game is designed to be played in a linear fashion. If you don't go in the right order then things get weird. For example, I started out with the park, and while investigating things Hector suddenly says that
The sound was also really iffy, with uneven volume levels, tinny sounding dialogue, and other issues.
Nope ppl loved her body they just had issues with her breath
fair enough
* The police station stuff was fun but the rest of the game was just pretty boring. Could do with more absurd item combinations instead of just collecting things then using them directly.
* I had no idea that the
* The ending wasn't at all satisfying. I know this is supposed to be episodic, but Sam and Max at least gave you a feeling of completion after each episode...
I had a few bugs:
* When I picked up the spray can, the animation played twice and my mouse disappeared until I moved to another screen
* Only a small section of each dialogue option is actually clickable. Possibly has something to do with my higher-than-default resolution.
* The game lets my mouse cursor go off to other monitors, which can lead to accidentally switching away from the game. Quite annoying in fullscreen mode.
The main problem with the difficulty in Hector, is like some have said, the linear display of puzzles.
But overall, very good game.
edit: Oh, and the addition of subtitles in the cutscenes is something it should be checked if possible for the next chapters.
Yeah, I pretty much did things exactly the way you did. And
I can totally get behind the crude humour idea, but this? Not only was it disgusting but it was also predictable and was, overall, trying too hard.
Let me reiterate: I am totally fine with adult humour. I am a man, and we men like manly things. But this was trying so hard it was just childish. So it wasn't very manly, it was, in fact, laden with oestrogen.
The very point in which I knew the humour had failed was
I will also say again that I have not finished the game and I totally accept the "it gets better" argument, so please let me know if it does.
Also, again: I didn't find it disgusting because of my aversion to adult humour, as I have none. I found it disgusting because it was trying too hard. Aversion, no. Over the top, yes.
You don't have to give so many excuses for don't liking it, or reassure your manhood, we get it. In fact i think nobody is surprised by your reaction, im sure they were expecting things like that.
The whole condom puzzle is cleverly put at the begining to act as a filter, and in the most grose setting. People who r ok with it go on, the others just quit right at the start without losing too much time in a game they don't dig.
And you didn't get the condom joke quite right. He is not "proudly announcing" the size. He is surprised by the size (giving you the idea it's not his) so he quickly tries to revert the situation. I would not say "proudly" but embarassing.
I thought I made it clear that I did. But nevermind.
@Ffleming Remember, you've another two episodes in the series. There's a lot of British humour in the game- watch the UK version of Life on Mars and then play the game
Coming from someone who likes adult humor as much as the next person, I found the crude jokes to be a little over the top and I agree with the notion that it appeared to be 'trying too hard'.
Was it the worst game I've played? No.
Would I pay more than $2.50 for it? No.
Was it a good time-killer? Yes.