Halley's Dream

I really like the graphics of this game. Although it does lacks polish, It is well worth experiencing atleast once.

Halley's Dream is an adventure game of sorts where the title character runs around something reminiscent of a dream. The dream world is a wide open space of mostly grassy terrain, and the goal is to simply go from point A to point B. It's like a walking simulator, as some might call it. There are little objectives you do to progress further from one area to the next. Despite my claim to not recommend this game, it doesn't mean I dislike it. The setpiece is there, the ideas are there, but the execution of the gameplay overall is not what it should be. The positives: - Good visuals. The simplistic cel-shaded style and bright colors allows everything to pop out at you. Halley stands out well, and you know what you're looking at when you see it. There's little to no confusion of where you are thanks to the mostly varied terrain and slopes. - I enjoy the music. It's airy and dreamlike, as it should be, and doesn't detract from what you're doing. - The mystery of it all makes you wonder. The negatives: - Controlling Halley can be cumbersome. The general motion of directional movement is okay, but jumping seems incomplete. There's no running, which for such wide open environments, moving around feels very slow. Although you can move slightly faster after using one of those crystals littered about, performing any other action will stop you from moving slightly faster. - Little to no feedback of performing actions with the wands, jumping, and being caught by a dragon or falling into water. - The overall motion of actors that aren't Halley feel unpolished, turning by rotation and animating very simply. - Sound effects mostly aren't there, but what sounds there are are very simple and don't really fit with the scenario. The varied quality and volume makes me feel like they are stock sounds. - Repetitive environments. Other than the dragons' world, the atmosphere and color of the areas may change, but the general environment does not. It's mostly the same grass you see, the same rocks, the same dirt and objects. - No catharsis. While I've nothing against obfuscation and mystery, there needs to be a payoff somewhere, otherwise there is little meaning to it all, and you're left unfulfilled. The issues: - The main character you talk to has bugs related to progressing the speech when a cutscene is involved. Text and the cutscene gets skipped and doesn't display properly. - Climbing (lack of) physics. You can walk just about anywhere you want with enough effort, especially after acquiring the teleportation wand. This isn't a problem in itself, but it seems as though the ability to do so wasn't considered when designing the terrain. - Exploring around and taking orbs early can disrupt the chain of events, making you need to restart the game to the last save point. Overall, I feel this game has unrealized potential and creates expectations that didn't deliver. There's almost a game, here; it's quite clear that this is someone's first project, and it lacks a lot of polish. If there were more time, effort, and quality put into the game's story, presentation, and feel of Halley and their dream, I believe we could have something great.

The game left negative emotions, unfortunately. Yes, at first it is beautiful, simple, relaxing, the plot is present and not bad, but as soon as you are a little more curious, inconsistent, all the bugs of the game that you can find come out. I have to restart the game, start going through everything again, at some points the save refused to work and it was not possible to save the point. I hit groundhog day. Beautiful groundhog day. I became very sad. I do not recommend this game if you are not going to do everything according to the points. I hope they fix things over time.

TL;DR: Hier gibt es ein Video mit unbearbeitetem Gameplay: https://youtu.be/ZSqmbil9aks In ausführlicher: Dieses Spiel ist wirklich mal etwas neues und frisches zwischen all den Indie-Plattformern, Shootern und Simulatoren. Neugierig durch den Grafik-Stil und durch den wuscheligen Hund auf dem Cover wurde ich dann zum Kauf überzeugt. Eine Entscheidung, die ich nicht bereue. Und mal ehrlich. Wer kann einem niedlichen Hund mit Halstuch schon widerstehen? Das Spiel ist wunderschön designed. Die Grafik im Comic-Look ist eh immer schick, doch auch die schöne Musik und die tolle Atmosphäre haben mich durchaus überzeugt. Es ist ein, für mich, toller Puzzler mit ein wenig Sprung-Einlagen und dezentem aber passenden Humor. Und es gibt sogar Drachen. ;) Negatives ist mir bisher nicht aufgefallen. Es lief bisher bugfrei, ruckelfrei und problemlos. Ab und an sprang der feine Junge mal von allein, aber das ist nicht wirklich schlimm. Jeder der also Spaß am rätseln, nachdenken und Atmosphäre hat, der kann ruhig mal reinschauen. Ich wünsche viel Spaß! :)

Une aventure onirique pleine de poésie pour ce jeu réalisé par une seule personne ! Un travail remarquable, bravo ! Vous trouverez une vidéo de gameplay à cette adresse si ça peut vous aider à vous faire une idée : https://youtu.be/_YT7opq0XeI

[h3]Игра на один вечер.[/h3] Очень коротенькая игра про собачку. Приятная графика, неплохая музыка, средненький сюжет и простенький геймплей. Ачивок нет, так что заморачиваться с ними не надо. [b]Баги в игре тоже присутствуют.[/b] В третьем мире среди деревьев не заметила луч, указывающий на новое "оружие", поэтому без него спокойно собрала все три сферы (потому что пёсель неплохо так подпрыгивает на камнях). В итоге, когда я всё-таки нашла это "оружие", то игра просто сломалась и не знала, какую именно цель мне показывать. А всё потому что сперва надо было взять оружие, потом поговорить с медведем, потом найти сферы - и тогда уже активировались камни для этих сфер. Дважды выходила в меню и возвращалась обратно - в итоге всё починилось. [i]После этого я уже бежала только по белым сюжетным лучам, никуда не сворачивая.[/i] В общем, кто любит собачек и не прочь ей часа полтора побегать, то эта игра самое то. [b]Ставлю 6 гав-гав-гав из 10.[/b]

Really pretty graphics. The game is not perfect, but it's relaxing and I enjoyed playing it.

It has a nice art style but fails to save the game when i click the save game. For that reason alone I'm leaving a negative review.

I like it. It's not a complex game, but I love exploring beautifully crafted worlds