Adventures of Human Being

Warning: this game requires forklift certification. Short and strange lo-fi adventure. Most of the game is simple fetch quests peppered with very simple switch operating and box moving puzzles. Not a lot to say regarding gameplay other than it is fast, boiling adventure game design to its bare components. The author wanted to create a story about an everyman leading a revolution, but several things muddle any message the game might have. It's meant to be both whimsical and provocative, with a duck complaining about minimum wage labor and a cat gleefully committing various acts of civil disobedience, but you're forced to do weird dicky things sometimes. The worst example: [spoiler]you buy some stuff from a drug dealer that a nurse needs to illegally make medicine. After the nurse creates the medicine, she gets in trouble with the authorities. Your character resolves to turn the drug dealer in to the police to turn their attention away from the nurse and save her. Didn't the drug dealer help you in the process of making the medicine? As a person aiding a revolutionary faction (here called THE REVOLTING) or a nurse manufacturing illegal drugs, aren't you all criminals? Why is the drug dealer getting thrown under the bus? Maybe another scene to label him a "bad" person would have made more sense.[/spoiler] Also keep in mind the store screenshots are slightly misleading. The game is comprised of four large screens that represent different cities and the only scrolling or zooming in is when you move between these four areas. My wife actually laughed at how tiny the player character was zipping around the screen. I think I got this for a dollar on sale and it's worth about that. Everything is so fast-paced and with enough signs of intelligence, it's hard not to be charmed by it. I look forward to the continued adventures of Human Being!