HIVESWAP: ACT 2

save UHC and apologize

[h1]I'll bite.[/h1] [b]To preface this[/b] - I am not a die-hard Homestuck fan. Pretty far from it, really. I am primarily writing this as a fan of point and click adventure games and this review is mostly for people who are fans of point and click adventure games. I read it, sure, but it's not my typical cup of tea. On a very surface level I enjoyed acts 1-5 and I kind of tapped out at act 6 due to a variety of smaller issues that began to compound into a singularly hair-pulling reading experience, only finishing it out of some nebulous sense of obligation due to the amount of time sunk into reading it. I enjoyed it, didn't love it, but I very much appreciate its existence and I think its better qualities far outweigh its negatives. Nevertheless, this is not a review of Homestuck. Hiveswap, in a meta sense, is an inherently fraught topic that - without getting into the layers-upon-layers of internal drama, semi-failed promises, and general mishandling of the overall IP after its acq...

While Act 1 on its own is a competent and polished point n click adventure game, Act 2 is more like a visual novel with walking around. Pretty much the entire team that developed Act 1 has left after its release, leaving a 3 year gap between the two acts that was filled by the Friendsim and Pesterquest visual novels. It seems that new team was tasked with developing Act 2. 5 years after Act 2's release with only hints of Act 3, I have little faith that Hiveswap will ever actually be finished, let alone Hauntswitch. The game itself is far less polished than Act 1 was, and I would go as far as to say that it was rushed and incomplete. Two characters whose homes you visit were straight-up cut from the game. Furthermore, Andrew Hussie, the creator of Homestuck is a manipulative, abusive liar who does not deserve your money and support. If you want to know more, look up the takedown of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection and the pretense that is the Homestuck Independent Creative Union, t...

loved act 1 and act 2 was alright until the ace attorney segment. poorly-written, bad logic connections between evidence and dialogue choices, no hints as to what ending you've unwittingly locked yourself out of, dialogue can be clicked through but not skipped so if you get the game over (there are multiple scenarios where if you get one thing wrong you get insta G.O.'d) it's super tedious because you have to listen to all of the dialogue every time because it's tied to the "press" mechanic they added. the game insults joey and thus the player when they get something "wrong" despite not being very helpful if you aren't trying to cheese the entire thing. this one segment (and this particular act's obsession with making you talk to people instead of putting you in scenarios where you want to) made me not want to finish the game.

This game ruined all of the good momentum the first act set up and ruined my faith in this franchise Just read Homestuck

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