Hippocampus

After nearly 30 hours, it's finally done. One of the most janky, frustrating games I have ever played. With the amount of crashing (24 times), restarting my playthrough (5 times), corrupted save files (2 times), completing the game (4 times), stun-locked beyond oblivion (??? times), and many other exciting encounters... I’ve grown attached to this game, and it holds a special place in my heart. [I’ve developed Stockholm syndrome, and you should totally play it] The reason I have so many hours is due to the bugs I kept encountering AND my determination to 100% the game by finding all the collectibles. I spent HOURS hunting for that last collectible, praying it wasn’t a bug or stuck out of bounds. But finally, I found it. It was an easy miss, and I had no clue how to access the area, so I cheesed it with [spoiler] Moebius's monster form and used the whip to snag it by hitting through the wall lol. [/spoiler] I could honestly make a whole guide on what bugs to avoid and what to expect, considering how many times I’ve played through the game. There’s even a combo attack bug that locks you in place if you don’t finish the combo properly. Overall, fantastic game. If you have the patience and determination to power through it all, then by all means, give it a go. It’s free, after all—what’s the harm? https://youtu.be/GWqm3yl8siU My experience with the final boss in the game if you wanna see me suffer

I played it for an hour, then I went on the Outlast trial to heal my depression and accept my new baldness.

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The axe goes chop chop. A nice free game

"Hippocampus" is a badly made third person hack and slash game kitbashed out of the Unreal Engine (and almost certainly with a bunch of flipped assets) along with a couple of paid fake reviews from Russia. What's the game about? This is a free-to-play, third-person action-adventure game with hack-and-slash combat and platforming. Set in a gothic, dark fantasy world, the player navigates hallucinatory environments driven by memory exploration. Gameplay involves fighting enemies with gore and dismemberment mechanics, alongside traversing platform sections and solving occasional puzzles. The experience presents a level of difficulty. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $12 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. [quote][b][url=https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/16-cfr-part-465-trade-regulation-rule-use-consumer-reviews-testimonials-final-rule]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/b] This game features a small number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product. Due to the 2024 FTC ruling (16 CFR Part 465), these fake reviews are a violation of US Federal Law.[/quote] Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

Grafikler güzel buldum. Oyun güzel görünüyor, harika müzikleri var, iyi optimizasyonu var. Oyunun ana fikrini beğendim. Ama düzeltilmesi gerekiyor. Birçok hata var ve oynaması çok zor. Tüm düşmanları öldürmek zordur. Darbelerinizin düşman için hiçbir ağırlığı yok gibi görünüyor, ancak düşmanın her dürtüsü, kahramanın oldukça uyuşmasına ve birkaç saniye boyunca komutlara yanıt vermemesine neden oluyor. şu anda zıplamak da tuhaf. Düşmanların üzerinden atlamak onlarla savaşmaktan daha kolaydır. Neyse ki oyun, parkurun bazı aşamaları atlamasına ve tırmanmak için tasarlanmadığı yerlere atlamasına izin veriyor. Kurallarla oynamaktan daha ileri gitmek için bir hata bulmak daha kolaydır. Bir başyapıt görmeyi beklemiyordum ve bir sürü hataya karşı zihinsel olarak hazırlıklıydım çünkü oyun tek bir kişi tarafından yaratılmıştı. Dolayısıyla bu hataların giderileceğini düşünüyorum.

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