Gangbeasts meets multiplayer puzzle platformer that had my friends and me laughing every time we played it, even on the weaker levels.
The first time I tried Human Fall Flat it was little more than a tech demo. It was fun but it didn't hook me. But revisiting it now with my wife and two of our friends, we had an absolute blast slowly playing through the base game and all the free DLC levels over the period of a few months.
Honestly I really would've expected the noodly Gangbeasts physics to get stale but the level variety make it so you constantly have to find new ways to throw your bodies around to solve puzzles, often to hilarious results. What's more is that the puzzles often have different solutions. In fact, some of the most fun we had was trying to figure out how we could "break" the game or do a puzzle unconventionally. But even when it feels like you've done some exploit, all of that is intentional and part of the game's design.
The shenanigans of the game honestly never got old - grabbing onto a spinning wheel to fling yourself across the level, seeing how far you could launch yourself off some catapult, throwing your friend off the level, etc. The only times this game got boring was in some of the weaker level designs, but even in those, we still had fun just messing around.
+ Great multiplayer fun
+ Fantastic level variety
+ Fun puzzles that take advantage of the wacky physics
- Some weaker levels that overstay their welcome
- Occasionally annoying puzzles that rely too heavily on imprecise physics
The first time I tried Human Fall Flat it was little more than a tech demo. It was fun but it didn't hook me. But revisiting it now with my wife and two of our friends, we had an absolute blast slowly playing through the base game and all the free DLC levels over the period of a few months.
Honestly I really would've expected the noodly Gangbeasts physics to get stale but the level variety make it so you constantly have to find new ways to throw your bodies around to solve puzzles, often to hilarious results. What's more is that the puzzles often have different solutions. In fact, some of the most fun we had was trying to figure out how we could "break" the game or do a puzzle unconventionally. But even when it feels like you've done some exploit, all of that is intentional and part of the game's design.
The shenanigans of the game honestly never got old - grabbing onto a spinning wheel to fling yourself across the level, seeing how far you could launch yourself off some catapult, throwing your friend off the level, etc. The only times this game got boring was in some of the weaker level designs, but even in those, we still had fun just messing around.
+ Great multiplayer fun
+ Fantastic level variety
+ Fun puzzles that take advantage of the wacky physics
- Some weaker levels that overstay their welcome
- Occasionally annoying puzzles that rely too heavily on imprecise physics
It's fine.
Puzzle platformers are a bit finicky for me in terms of enjoyment and this was def on the more difficult end of things to fully get in to. The controls/physics (while unique and fun in theory) wear out their welcome a few levels in. I'm sure it makes for some interesting stuff upon replays or with speedruns but seeing as I only played this once and don't really want to go back I'm left with it as it is.
Seeing games like this take off/find audiences makes me not want to hear shit from people when they try to complain about the original Resident Evil and Tomb Raider games tbh.
Puzzle platformers are a bit finicky for me in terms of enjoyment and this was def on the more difficult end of things to fully get in to. The controls/physics (while unique and fun in theory) wear out their welcome a few levels in. I'm sure it makes for some interesting stuff upon replays or with speedruns but seeing as I only played this once and don't really want to go back I'm left with it as it is.
Seeing games like this take off/find audiences makes me not want to hear shit from people when they try to complain about the original Resident Evil and Tomb Raider games tbh.