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"I've got the perfect plan..."
Henry Stickmin Collection is a series of point-and-click choose your own adventure-games developed by PuffballsUnited and published by Innersloth.
Story
Henry Stickmin Collection is an epic saga spanning across 6 games, telling a story of titular Henry Stickmin, a stickman who starts off the series as a small crimimal hoping for quick cash, but as his ventures go on, he gets involved with large criminal organization and ends up being a part of global conspiracy.
First 5 games from said series were originally released as free to play browser based games on Stickpage and Newgrounds, with final, 6th chapter titled "Complete the Mission" developed for this particular collection/release!
Gameplay
Henry Stickmin is all about pointing and clicking to decide the fate of our hero. You can safely ditch the keyboard for this one, mouse only will do!
You get a selection of choices to move forward, and you select it by, yes you guessed it, pointing and clicking on an option! These go two ways, either you fail and retry, or you make progress to next choice. Simple? Simple.
Game provides occasionally a Quick Time Event where you have to select an option in a limited amount of time, or to click at certain direction to not fail.
Outside of main clicking, game has side clicking as well. You can click on characters you encounter to add them to your acts and later on read their bios, or you can click on environment to discover (or attempt to) many secrets and references hidden across the games!
Playtime and replayability
Completing everything HSC had to offer took me 5 hours, beating only games without any character/achievement hunt will probably take you an hour, perhaps two.
Replayability is key here, afterall you just have to check all the fails game provided for your enjoyment, no?
Pros and cons
Henry Stickmin is a short and simple game that will make you laugh with all the hilarious fails awaiting to be discovered, and with decent story following all those storylines you can choose from. Easy controls, decent soundtrack, even visually it ain't shabby, especially final chapter (previous ones also got remastered for this release to look better!). Bios, previously mentioned fails and ton of references you can find make it for a nice game to replay.
Bear in mind games have their age so some references might be tad older and perhaps slightly forgotten by sands of time.
Only issue is drop in performance that happens when you play the game in fullscreen mode, but it's not something horrible.
Final words and conclusion
Whole Collection is a nice way to keep Flash games nostalgia alive and I hope to see more flash games appear on other platforms.
Failure never felt better with The Henry Stickmin Collection! Humour and references galore in classic flash games with new entry that I can safely recommended.
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