And it’s a buggy piece of crap
At least on my computer. Cutscenes freezing or cutting in the middle, play area jumping left and right and even displaying a fullscreen close-up on the side like I’m viewing VRAM in an emulator before I’ve opened the relevant drawer.
Also it’s Act 1 of the first half of the game.
Pity, because it could be endearing otherwise, the writing’s kinda funny. But my advice is to stay away from that garbage.
Well i kickstarted it so I am ready to hsve a good time.
I continued for a bit but I’m missing all the cutscenes now so I guess it’s refund time and I’ll just go for a let’s play.
EDIT: they’re aware of those issues and preparing a patch so I guess I’ll give them another chance. Gotta mention it’s pretty underwhelming even without the bugs though, it’s a simplistic adventure game with lame puzzles. Though I do like how Joey is written.
I backed this, apparently! It’s been long enough that I forgot. So I have the game, but I didn’t want to bother checking whether it would run on my Surface until they’ve got the bugs fixed, but I can definitely confirm the backer code works to unlock the game for your Steam library.
I am more excited hearing basically every webcomicist I like contributed something to this.
El oh el Act 2 is coming out next week finally el oh el.
I’ve gotta say, as mentioned back when it came out Hiveswap didn’t do it for me, like, at all. On top of being a shoddily made product it was just a bad adventure game that reminds me of all the bad adventure games we got in the 90s when the genre was big but already on its way out, made by people who clearly didn’t understand why the good ones worked.
But really, even if it were a good adventure game I’d be frustrated because in truth I’d have liked some kind of oddball sburby thing with fusion mechanics, intractable inventories, more gauges than you can count and isometric home renovation. Undertale or frog Fractions do a much better job of being the kind of eclectic mix a Homestuck game should be than vanilla adventure games and visual novels. But I don’t think the Homestuck team has the skills to produce such a thing.
Speaking of that, pretty much all the goodwill I’d accumulated for the whole thing has pretty much been consumed by, well, everything they’ve done since, the epilogues, Homestuck 2, the works. They should’ve moved on to a new MS paint adventure rather than stick more terrible bits onto Homestuck. But of course no one would’ve been interested in it because it was too late.
I bounced off of Homestuck after a while, although I liked the way it started. Problem Sleuth imho was aces the whole way through.
I actually really enjoyed the first Hiveswap as a less continuity cursed slice of homestuck writing. It felt less like a full on adventure game, and more like a more elaborate interactive comic interlude to me. It got me to try re-reading homestuck for a while even.
So like, I’m nominally looking forward to this?
It is at least making me discover someone made what seems to be a pretty thorough Homestuck archive, including Problem Sleuth, that may work better than the official site these days (since they broke some stuff when they changed domains).
I really like hiveswap and found it charming even if none of it stuck with me.
So here’s hoping the Alteria chapter 2 is at all good.
I have played an hour of this and fucking kill me I do not want to read a tumblr in OC argument about a book that doesn’t exist.
Feel like I’m having 17 year olds arguing about which of their Homestuck OCs are the coolest and the answer is they were all made by 17 year olds with teenage emotions.
It is completely up it’s own tumblr ass.
Ah, so it’s very authentic to the spirit of the Epilogues/post-Epilogues content, then. Homestuck is fascinating in that it seems on some level to be a work designed to systematically find the audience’s maximum tolerance for bullshit, push all those people away, and then recalibrate for whoever stuck around, like some kind of laser-guided bullshit concentrator, perpetually alienating a progression of increasingly tolerant enthusiasts until either there’s nobody left, or they finally identify the Fan Who Loves Everything, who is perfectly fine with and excited for any and all abuse perpetrated by the media they consume.
Example of multiple conversations:
“Oh it’s a kissmete relationship but more Ashen.”
“What?”
“Haha nevermind guess that is complicated XX)”
“Oh so it is like Forrest Gump with the chocolates?”
“What?”
"Haha never mind that’s an Earth Pop Culture reference. I guess you wouldn’t know it. >:) "
the epilogues are good, actually
