Hypnosis

Now this is my kind of game. Remember that movie The Cell, with Jennifer Lopez? Me either, but anyway. You play as a mental health professional, well, actually a hypnotist. A mental health professional the same way a chiropractor is a doctor, but that's neither here nor there. The same can be said in the game, as you have the ability to enter peoples minds and wander about the disjointed dreamscapes of their brainlands. Neither reality nor fantasy, these bizarre dioramas are both creepy and lovely, bringing to mind other games such as Sanitarium or The Cat Lady. As you wander these areas that would make Freud think twice about just what a cigar really is, you solve mysteries like Scooby Doo, and do battle with nefarious Fig Men of Imagination. If you enjoy surrealsim, then don't Dali, check this game out.

This game is what Psychonauts would be without the Meat Circus. In fact, this game is basically Psychonauts but not tedious and with a strange eastern european charm. (Not jank. Charm. Never crashed on me, never buggy, nothing awkwardly translated.) If you want a surrealist adventure game that begins with a missing persons case and turns into "the internet is a metaphor for the universe itself", you're in the right place. Look at my flashlight.

If you enjoy campy, prime time dramas you may enjoy this game. I like its unique fusion of rpg, point and click, and battle. The problem is that the plot gets old quickly and the save system is wonky. I lost all my data after the second patient.

This game has a lot of replay value. It's the first game I played on steam and I still go back to it often to try and fill out all the achievements. The little strategic goblin battle things get increasingly more difficult and it can be frustrating trying to play through them, but they're definitely possible and they force you to think outside of the box which is p cool. It's ok if you skip though a few of them the first time around, because you'll defintely want to go back and replay it. Nice, easy play for when you're looking to waste time.

This game is a true gem that can hardly be compared to the other, so often boring and inexpressive games of the same genre, as this one offers more that just point-and-click adventure, it offers truly entertaining story and amazing attention to the details. Bright, colorful and extremely creative designs are beyond any praise. The puzzles are fairly simple, but they fit the gameplay perfectly. The overall impressions are highly positive with the undeniably pleasant aftertaste.

There's a lot wrong with Hypnosis. But the plot. Oh my god the plot of this thing starts off by dropping off the rails and continues to careen around wildly until it soars off into space and transcends our weak bond of gravity. Psychiatrist Maya Anderson stepped off a street car to return to work one day instead of going on a vacation with her boyfriend. He vanished from her life for two years. One day she receives a phone call that the clinic he works for IN HER TOWN (???) is having some issues. The patients are acting strange. Complaining about visions of odd figures in masks. And her ex-boyfriend David has gone missing... AGAIN. Maya arrives on the scene and proceeds to hypnotize everyone she meets within ten minutes of introducing herself. She has a flashlight that blinks disco patterns and isn't afraid to use it, no matter how willing or unwilling the subject. Then she astral-projects herself into their minds to solve all their problems and pry into all their secrets. Ethics? What's an ethics? The ridiculousness of the plot builds and builds until the finale, which I am absolutely not going to spoil because it had me sitting here SCREECHING WITH LAUGHTER at 4 AM so hard I thought I was going to pass out and pee myself at the SAME TIME. My face hurts from laughing at this game. It is a glorious horrible wonderful thing.

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Hypnosis is the B Movie Cult Classic of point and click games that you never knew you wanted, until it fell into your lap for $5 and you were just like....ok? It is simple, satisfying and gloriously strange. The graphics are surprisingly good, while the constant shift in level theme/art style provides much entertainment. The story starts with simple mystery, and then cannonballs into an intergalactic psych romp full of cartoonish twists and turns. I am still trying to figure out whether the game is intentionally funny, or unintentionally so, but either way, just like Ed Wood's B-Movie Classic, Plan-9 From Outer Space, this game features all your favourite celebrities (without their permission) and allows you to DIVE INTO THEIR DREAMS through the POWER OF HYPNOSISSSSSS. [note: therefore it is nothing really much like that movie I mentioned at all] Seriously, Grace Jones, Einstein, Richard Branson, That Dude From The Big Bang Theory...the gang's all here and they're just begging for your cleavage-aided psychiatric assistance. SOME may say that the puzzles are too simple and easily solved, but to them I say NAY. My main grievance with Point & Click games is that they always feature that one frustrating puzzle, which you can never solve so you cannot continue playing. And that makes me feel kind of stupid. Hypnosis features puzzles which are as easily solved as an 8 year old's homework, so they're great for your self esteem. And, just like your favourite elementary school teacher, the game gives you GOLD STARS for completing puzzle battles (also good for the self esteem). But the real prize is watching this weird, weird story unfold. After completing the game and witnessing that truly epic ending, I can only recommend it as the best, terrible game I've ever played and would highly recommend it for anyone with a good sense of humour and a spare 5 bucks. Now for my few critiques: 1. Unsure of why the main character needs to be randomly sexy and have a standby boob-adjusting animation. I would like to point out, that as a psychiatric professional, I would consider her low-cut outfit inappropriate for the workplace. Don't even get me started on those ones from the store O_O 2. Continuing the above theme - Do Maya and Dr Blanche understand the concept of patient-doctor boundaries? *spoiler alert* Hiring your patients, hypnotising them against their will, getting all up in their brain and then telling them how to live their lives - pretty sure that's a breach of like all of the psychiatric rules.