HIVESWAP: Act 1

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  1. GameBroOfficial
    Aug 3, 2018
    3
    Hiveswap: Why the "Game of the Year" or whatever isn't as good as some other stuff I like that's better.

    *This review printed on 40% recycled asbestos. For big ups to Mother Earth, yo.* So okay. Hiveswap is this game that a lot of cats seem hella pumped of. And this beta is sitting in my Steam library for review, so I'm like, yeah man I'll write something. But I don't know. I'm    Hiveswap: Why the "Game of the Year" or whatever isn't as good as some other stuff I like that's better.

    *This review printed on 40% recycled asbestos. For big ups to Mother Earth, yo.*

    So okay.
    Hiveswap is this game that a lot of cats seem hella pumped of. And this beta is sitting in my Steam library for review, so I'm like, yeah man I'll write something.
    But I don't know. I'm like, so this is about houses or some noise? That's fine, I'm sure that's like **** dynamite in a handbag for some brosephs. But all I'm saying is, when do you get to THRASH anything? While you're playing house or some **** are you ever in jeopardy of getting mud on your doll's dress or whatever from busting out, and I quote; "the mad stunts all wicked up-ins?"

    Know what I'm saying, Bro-Yo-Ma? I didn't actually play this game, but I gave it 3 hats out of 10 hats to keep it real.

    At this point I'd like to give a shout-out to my boy Dennis who was over the other day. We were going to chill in front of The Dark Knight and he was so psyched of it y'all.
    So this one time he was leaning against the screen door and the **** popped open, and the back deck was wet and he slipped down the steps and broke his thumb on the lawn. It wasn't a long fall, but hey I guess a thumb bone wasn't made for supporting the brunt of a huge useless tool against wet grass. We never did watch Dark Knight on account of Ron trucking his bawling candy-ass girth to the hospital.
    But it's cool. I still got another watch in me, Brotel Rwanda.

    *BRO-NOTES: Dennis was so wasted, ha ha. I mean damn.*    … Expand
  2. Agathra
    Oct 5, 2019
    0
    Surprisingly.... tedious, for such a cute/nice looking game. I never knew about Homestuck, just picked this up during a sale one day because I like point and clicks. Maybe it helps if you're a fan? But as someone who came at this as just a point and click game, there's a load of junk in every single room and, with very few exceptions, no indicators of what's interactive and what's notSurprisingly.... tedious, for such a cute/nice looking game. I never knew about Homestuck, just picked this up during a sale one day because I like point and clicks. Maybe it helps if you're a fan? But as someone who came at this as just a point and click game, there's a load of junk in every single room and, with very few exceptions, no indicators of what's interactive and what's not until you're mousing over something and the mouse icon changes. And what you can access seemed to change depending on when you were looking at the room (that or there was a delay when mousing over stuff for it to actually say "there's something here", one of the two) so you had to mouse over EV-ER-Y-THING, EVERY time you were in a room in CASE something had changed, and the 'battles' were just trying everything in your inventory... and your action bar.. and oh maybe some stuff in the room.. and THEN finding the correct order for those things... and even cutesy attack titles can only disguise the underlying monotony for so long. Also there's a LOT of interactive stuff that's just flavor stuff, I mean a LOT a lot, so again, you just have to click around a LOT in every room to find out what is and isn't going to be useful, and will learn - over and over and over again - some facts like

    - absent dad is a hunter & daughter hates that
    - daughter doesn't like guns
    - babysitter is a bad (drunk) babysitter
    - brother is a paranoid nerd
    - the house is messy
    - mom is gone
    - girl loves animals

    Then there's the new world where you're talking to a guy who repeats himself ad nauseum. There's a (kind of) rebellion. His friend is the paranoid nerd of this world. There are bad people on this world.

    Despite the really pretty art I just got BORED of the tedious clicking through of multiple items AND actions AND dialogue for every petty little step trying to advance the story.    … Expand

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  1. Destructoid
    Sep 16, 2017
    75
    The game looks good and plays well, and I only encountered one minor glitch while I was playing.
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  2. Polygon
    Sep 14, 2017
    80
    Hiveswap: Act One is brief, but I already have a lot of hope for the world and cast introduced here. (And the music. Oh god, yes, the music.) There’s a lot to see, and anyone looking for a light-hearted adventure will have a great time. Despite its minor bugs and short length, both Homestruck devotees and those who never experienced the webcomic will find a fantastic, humorous introduction to this new pocket of an already-massive universe.
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