Harold Halibut

Ce jeu est une réelle immersion dans un long film. Je ne m'attendais pas à autant rire, apprécier des personnages et être chamboulée par cette histoire. Le rythme est très différent, le gameplay aussi, mais je suis contente de lui avoir donner une chance. Si vous voulez vivre une courte histoire ( bon j'y ai joué 13h quand même) je vous recommande de prendre votre temps pour découvrir à quoi ressemble le quotidien banal d'Harold Halibut.

Harold Halibut is a wonderfully weird and beautiful game. I highly recommend it, if your attention span isn't shot. And don't listen to negative reviews that belittle the really nice story, that they couldn't even complete themselves. I got chills and even cried at times. Sure there are rare moments where one would think "what was that for?", not in a way that'd make you think it was pointless, but it all ties nicely back up at the end. 10/10 highly recommend. Fix your attention span, the right way ;]

Harold Halibut is a strange game and I don't think everyone would enjoy it. I would recommend it to you if you would like a game that feels similar to a point-and-click adventure but with no real puzzles to solve or choices to make, and whose story, although interesting, is fairly slow paced. One of the big attractions of the game is that everything is handmade. I had expected it to look something like The Neverhood (or Armikrog) with filmed stop-motion animation but instead it was fully 3D and rendered in real time. All of the objects in the game are handmade but then digitally scanned and brought into the game and used as standard but high-quality 3D models with but standard but high-quality textures. The mouth movements have kind of a stop-motion feel to them but everything else is smoothly animated and dynamically lit. Another reason to recommend the game is if you are interested in the look of it, although that probably won't keep your interest through the whole game (the characters you meet and areas you explore are fairly limited). I also found the cinematography of many of the cutscenes to be surprisingly well done in a game that otherwise felt more indie (like, the animation of your character walking up or down stairs is incredibly janky but then in contrast the camera animation looks really good and artistic). The story is interesting, both in the traditional sense that I was interested to see what happened next but also in the sense of several things about it being odd. I think your appreciation of the game will largely depend on your tolerance for these oddities. There are some moments that can be surprisingly affecting and also themes that can really make you think but I imagine that not everyone that plays will have the patience to engage with it on that level. There is quite a bit of humor, some of which I found to be genuinely funny but some of which I found to be more awkward (and I was often unsure how intentional the awkwardness was). The characters seem to be intentionally quirky which I think works for the vibe that the game is going for but led to behavior that I often didn't find realistic. One of my favorite things about the game was probably the setting; although the world building wasn't necessarily realistic in a hard science fiction way I thought the whole experience was pretty immersive and so I felt like I got to experience living life on this strange ship. The gameplay itself, as I mentioned earlier, is very lacking. It initially felt like a traditional game, but the more I played the more I realized that there wasn't really anything to do except going from one (almost always) clearly-written objective to another. I don't think there is a single action you can take that has any effect on the story, although there is optional content you can miss if you don't talk to everyone every day. There isn't an inventory and dialogue options are rare. There are occasional sequences that are like minigames but there aren't really any challenges so it's more miniactivities rather than minigames. The game is really about experiencing the story, where you move the controller to walk from one part of the story to the next. I'm the kind of player who is generally ok with this lack of gameplay but even so I was pretty ready by the end for the game to wrap up. This review probably sounds more negative than positive so I should probably end by emphasizing that I liked the game and am glad that I played it. It was made with a lot of creativity and clearly a labor of love for the developers and I think for the right person this will be a really cool experience that will stick with you.

uzun zamandır indirime girmesini bekliyordum... oyunda aşırı büyük bir emek var, geliştirme sürecini baya incelemiştim lakin beni içine çekemedi.. belki de klavyeyle mi oynamamalıydım :/ bir şeyler yapamam gerekiyor ama nasıl anlayamadım falan derken iyice koptum. oynayasımda kaçtı. başka zaman belki tekrar şans verebilirim ama şuan için daha fazla oynayamayacağım.

The game is very enjoyable and unique. There are some glaring logic inconsistencies feeling a bit like the writing got lazy especially towards the end but if you are willing to look past a few things that do not make sense you will have a really good time. The game is unlike any other game I have played which really can break up the monotony of a lot of similar games on the market.

[h1] 如果不能顺着马桶水心流，就会变成绝佳电子褪黑素 [/h1] 快餐时代纯手搓的匠人精神令人钦佩，但是对此游戏风格和工艺的惊叹会在头几个小时内消耗殆尽——或许为累积衬托主角跑腿人生的虚无，或许为“偶遇”各色人物以展开关系网络，或许只是单纯展现手工场景，流程充满了[u]繁琐无意义的任务、无尽的龟速跑图和极其缓慢的交互动作[/u]，与其相应的是剧情几乎没有任何反馈，所有情节推进都处理成了白开水：该苦闷时没有苦闷、该紧张时没有紧张、该温馨时没有触动、该荒诞时笑不出来。尽管bgm已经恰时响起，镜头也拉远了，但一切属于无效烘托。 电影手法确实在，可黏土制作注定缺乏动态多端的场景、光线、微表情等，在单位信息量如此之小的情况下进行大段大段的大头播片，却只提供基本对话信息，各方面导致全程像蒙了一层老头滤镜，看什么景物与事件都变成没有情感波动的纯neutro。 技术有硬伤。举个例子，很多游戏为了保证播片时人物位置正确，角色触发剧情后会有一个自动摆位动作，成熟的游戏会把这里做得紧凑自然，Harold的处理简直令人大皱眉头，摆位动作龟速到芝诺都要叫绝、复杂到藤原拓海能过一圈秋名山…… 还有大量离题的对话和无意义小游戏，每个环节都让人觉得累赘要命，痛感无聊病和社交厌恶同时发作，每玩十分钟都会被强行催眠二十分钟。这样被体制巨物裹挟的开头，不往下看也知道会导向什么样的接触-改变-自我追寻，所以前面能不能凝练一点？作品型游戏，和主题弱相关的部分完全可以删了，Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication。 没什么好强行解释的，剧本、玩法、技术各方面都有问题。 全流程10h+，有效内容完全可以精简成2h以内的黏土电影。即便作为黏土电影也没发挥异星背景的长处，对水下场景悭吝无比，可以云一下感受。 我承认过滤室的即兴演唱和第三类接触那一幕真的很动人，笔记本涂鸦也很有趣。但风格只是风格，既不强烈，亦没有均匀地覆盖全体。拣选与删除的痛苦本就是创作的一部分，如果此作是个剪辑版短片没有冗余部分，更值得推荐。 不如看《挽救计划》旧瓶新酒，经典重述。

excellent handmade visuals in a cozy game that make the clunky glitches totally worthwhile. hopefully for their next team they have a bigger dev team!!