Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne

fun fun fun.

i hope they make another game!

Fun romp through the Girl Genius universe. Really captures the spirit of the comic.

This is a fan game with lots of love but not enough production value. The setting is great, the comic it's based on is great, the art is great, the puzzles are okay at best, the main gimmick of cubes that you transform is good but there aren't enough of them, you could have ten times the puzzles, the combat is bad and repetitive, the boss fights are actually good and challenging (they were hard for me on hard mode, though ultimately doable), but there are very few of them, the castle feels, ultimately, too small, and yet there are annoying loading times all the time, the character models are atrocious, you can barely tell them apart, they look like wii avatars, sheesh, also there's barely any interactions, although they do try to be faithful to the comic, bless their hearts, and there are silly grinding achievements that took too long after I beat the final boss. All in all it's a solid effort that ultimately falls short. I give it two out of four hats and that's just barely.

lovingly made zelda style game that is escpecially rewarding for all fans of the webcomic

Tricky puzzles, dizzying mazes, and delightful references to the comic storyline. What's not to love? The controls can be a bit finicky, but take a step back or slightly to the left and you'll figure it out.

I've read the comics since they were new and I was young. I only bought the game recently. It's lots of fun, very challenging puzzles... I had to look up hints to get past some of them. It's also very challenging to beat the boss fights. I'm still not sure where all the little side quest things are hidden, but it's such an aesthetically pleasing game I'll probably wander around and find them too, maybe with some hints...