Unlike every other match 3 game which makes you ask "what does the story have anything to do with this match 3 game", this game goes one level beyond and makes me ask what the hell do fruits have anything to do with airplanes or airports?
The only way you could connect the two is either make the game about tropical vacations: planes are needed to go to islands and islands have fruit or to make the game about not running an airport but a business where you import and export fruits.
i always like to imagine the protagonists have magical match 3 powers that just never get brought up. so lee here is actually solo building the whole airport with her magical abilities.
Absolutely sure that dialogue was written by a non-native speaker with google translate in hands. "security" instead of "safety" is pretty understandable mistake for a person who doesn't have enough expirience with nuisances of a language and just chose cooler sounding word in a list of synonyms.
In some languages (such as Italian), those two words are not even distinct, so a native speakers of such a language might be entirely unfamiliar with the possibility of there being such a nuance in the first place.
The developer and publisher aren't (necessarily) the same person, Steam just lets publishers redirect the devs to the publisher page if they want. 2 Left Thumbs has a little video about it
Came here to mention this, you see it a lot especially with a newer dev whom only has 1 or 2 games under their name while their publisher has 5+ but you even will see it in cases with bigger names. If a powerhouse like Capcom puts your game on Steam they're likely getting that redirect no matter what.
@@Graeldon Goodness gracious, hopefully this accounts for the amount of games that release daily. I can't imagine the pain of pushing through all of these.
@@WhiteOut_RBLX as someone who scraped the list of steam games for a Uni Project once I can tell you that in the few hours it took to scrape there were at least like 50 games added (which fucked up my sorting originally since it means that the game list moves)
"That's a tough one and police force does have detective. Hey you! Yes you! help us solve us that murder case" "But I'm just janitor" "And you're the most qualified person out there"
I feel like this could've been a perfectly decent game without the plot. Just an aviation themed match 3 game. Or get rid of the mystery and just have the plot be about getting an old airport back up and running. Also get rid of the racism.
Okay, with the game saying it's a total of 100 days, and there are 100 levels, it implies that each level is one day. Which also means we build pieces of the airport within a day or two FROM SCRATCH!
That ending where you realized that the ONLY plot thread that was resolved was that the airport got built reminded me of the ending of the latter two Xenus games. Both end right when a bigger story you will never get to see is only just starting, but hey, you were only tasked with doing X, and in doing whatever brings about the cliffhanger, you do check that off. Congrats, player, you found out why your home planet exploded! Don’t worry about how the answer was a small part of a big ancient tech conspiracy that could threaten the galaxy, that’s not your problem anymore.
That is honestly cool ngl. Atleast as a concenpt that can be done right, like in any singular game you're playing from the perspective of 1 singular character and see just a small part of the bigger picture. Then in other games in this series you play as other people and also see, this time different, parts of the bigger picture. Imo that's a neat idea on paper
I think it's ironic that we are explicitly told that this airport isn't even allowed to carry passenger flights yet, like how are we making money and what is Ray the Pilot doing all day?😅
I know this is irrelevant to the game you are playing but I just want to mention how I really like the fact you play the music from the game as the background music for your reviews!
This one featured music from the game in the verdict and final part of the review section. Everything else was music sourced from Epidemic Sound, which I use as a music library in a lot of videos due to issues with game music getting copyright strikes. I do try to use game music wherever possible though!
The significance of “HH” and the number 88, plus the slightly racist setting, makes me think this might be a “Yahtzee” dog whistle, if you know what I mean
Yeah, If i had a penny for every neonazi dogwhistle in this potentially racist match 3 game i would have 2 pennies, which isn't a lot but it speaks volumes that it happened twice
Oh and i also found them using the 88 dogwhistle on their twitter (giving away specifically 88 codes for their game) and the developer is German. Looks like they know what they're doing.
Not even the first reference to neo[blind] conspiracies in this series. Mercifully rare given how many we've covered so far, but 2 out of a random sample of like 50 is worrying
Honestly given how the developers are known by like 3-4 different names I wouldn't put much stock in the dev name here. It feels like some devs who are mildly racist trying to create a plot and utterly failing, but I don't think they're trying to dogwhistle.
HH games is a terrible company name for another reason. Being the short form of a salute of a certain country isn't great. It could be that HH games is one of those companies that do nothing but convert crappy mobile games as ports to PC.
Beyond everything this game had to offer... from the repetitive music and gameplay to the nonsensical story and shallow characters... the thing that disturbed me the most is the CONSTANT EYE CONTACT. Why is everyone staring directly at you??!!
I love that in their settings, not only do you have to *manually* apply their cursor, but it's a setting you can just ignore. It's like they knew how bad it was, and tried to bury it instead of just removing it.
I don't have an answer for why clicking the devs name also takes you to the H H page, but for what it's worth I've had the same thing happen with a couple games from more obscure devs/games.
So steam honestly just kinda does that, if you tired to look at tango gameworks it takes you to Bethesda's page for example. Same for if you wanna look at a lot of games from both minor and major devs. This was a change steam made a long time ago if I recall and yes. Yes it's shitty.
2:35 it's also extremely common for mobile app store versions of games to be listed under the people who ported it or under the game's mobile-specific publisher, e.g. Slay the Spire is developed and published by Mega Crit, but is published on mobile by Humble Games
I imagine that the reason some questions at end of dialogue don't get answers is for the reason you discovered and mentioned early on in the review, that the last line of dialogue don't trigger. It does make me assume, with a simplified explanation here, that every time it loaded in dialogue it checked which line it was at prior to loading in the line, so the game saw it reached last line and then went "well, that is the last line. we should end the dialogue" rather than show the line. It'd be a pretty easy mistake to make from a programing perspective, though that would mean the creators didn't pay attention to the dialogue in the game if/when they ran tests.
I managed to find the full script file while poking around in the game file and can confirm that only the one line that I mentioned doesn't trigger. Everything else is exactly as scripted
@@Graeldon That's even more odd to be honest, I could see a couple reasons as to why but it'd be purely speculative. At least one missed line is more reasonable than every last line being missed from a testing perspective.
@@Graeldon I was going to comment something like this too until you mentioned you’d checked the script for this in the video. Honestly, the fact that you WEREN’T losing dialogue boxes makes it even weirder: why did so many scenes end before they should have? Were those the devs’ idea of cliffhangers?
To answer on the publisher/developer split: maybe tax evasion but there can be a legit reason to split a publishing company and developer company even if it's the same people: you can have different pools of investors who buy into one, but not the other. Could also be they wanted to use DBAs for the same company (like one DBA is for developer, one for publishing on Steam, one for publishing on mobile). DBA being different names the company is allowed to operate. Someone else brought up a developer can just redirect their page to the Steam publisher page for whatever reason.
not only all the usual terrible plot... you missed the fact in the dialogue there, the first thing Lee does when she becomes boss of the airport is say she's happy with the pilots and mechanics, but she has a bunch of stewardesses to fire, implying that typical stereotype that the cheating Ray isn't to blame and she still plans on keeping him around, maybe even pursuing something with him, but anyone he might consider attractive or might be inclined to cheat on Lee with (even though they weren't in a relationship??) will lose their job..?? So not his fault for being a playboy, but any woman he manages to seduce is then made unemployed... fantastic writing! What a terrible game, thanks for sharing!
'Casual games such as mahjong' (I know there's a lot of western games that use mahjong tiles for anything but actual mahjong, probably because the actual game is too complicated for them)
Only like a third of the way through this video, and so far I think our main character has a HUGE problem with saying the quiet part out loud. It's okay to THINK to YOURSELF, "Wow, what a hunk", when an attractive person walks in, in a professional setting. Lots of people THINK about how awful their boss is, but they don't actually go around _saying out loud_ stuff like "What a drunken idiot" and "I'd like to DEAL with him..." The question here isn't who offed the boss. The question here is how Lee herself didn't get offed, and REALLY quickly. :P
As a former aircraft mechanic, and current aircrew member; yes, there is 100% a bad blood triangle in aviation between mechanics, pilots, and aerospace engineers.
they told you to build an airpot. "functional" is optional. we know airports have aircraft but the aricraft being functional is always just assumed. and we know airports have gift shops. so of course the gift shop is more important than planes that can fly. LOGIC
@@Dragnfly_mynamewastaken Yeah, I was feeling that during Graeldon’s summary. “Now we’re screwing around in the hotel. And now we’re dealing with the gift shop.” “Uh, we do fly planes here, right…?”
Imagine a match 3 game with basic symbols for different ethnic groups and every time you match one set of three symbols it plays a racially offensive common phrase or sound from that group, like star of David matching three goes "Oy Vey" a Muslim star and crecent does "Alluah ahkbar" and then the sounds get more racist as you get 4 or 5 in a row. This could get really offensive...
@@danielgrezda3339 .....that sounds like a 45 year old conservative's idea of offensive, it would probably be featured in ahmed and salim cartoon as a gag
I'm a sucker for match-games and Sudoku/Picross puzzles, so having something that merely does that competently but also offer a good story on top is just fine by me (check out Murder by Numbers on the Switch, if you're looking for Picross + Phoenix Wright investigations). This game feels like that's what they were going for at the start and had 2 separate scripts, not entirely sure which one they wanted to commit to. Only for the game to be nearing launch date, so the project manager ended up just smashing two incomplete scripts together and calling it a day. Maybe their suggestion of "Let's do both stories" was brushed off as a joke at first but no one called them out on it being a bad idea.
So, I thought I heard the name "HH Games" somewhere, and even briefly checked their Steam profile, and then continued the video only to realize your comment about adult content was a joke. I will make this very clear: I am on a parallel track to you, but in the unpublishable-to-TH-cam space of gaming. I am a seasoned spicy-ologist, and HH-games sounds so much like what you implied that I mistook them as somebody I've already seen shovelware from
Are you documenting your journey anywhere? I feel like there'd be an audience for that lol Also, are you the same person who commented on my Doki Doki Family video ages ago?
@@Graeldon I somehow wasn’t on that video, and in any case I’m probably not documenting much of it anyway. I am very much outnumbered by people who care about one thing, and also don’t have the time to run anything more complicated than a blog (which I don’t have). On the bright side, my line of work is greatly hastened by the fact my roster of games is also completely free, because everything there is already pirated or just a passion project. So aside from good video games that also so happen to be [prawn], I think the best thing I found doing this was 2084, a Twine-based cyberpunk dystopia mystery that trades in graphical fidelity and good taste to also be a self-contained ARG
I think it meant seucrity in the context of "feeling secure in" rather than like cameras and guards. The boss was cutting corners on making the machines safe and secure, persay. Not that this matters
Apparently they are some kind of real time tactics game? Not quite sure what to expect, or why they felt it needed so many sequels. Maybe there's some kind of cult following for the games?
@@Graeldon And then the 10000’s. And the 100000’s. I would not be surprised if someone released a game called 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 just to screw with you.
Dood, I just realized after you did the paper airplane out of 10 bit that your presentation style reminds me of Josh Strife Hayes. And it makes me want to watch more Josh Strife Hayes.
When this series gets to a real game it's going to be like christmas The earliest I can think of is American McGee's Alice though so it's going to be a while
1:20 it's common for it to work like that if a developer doesn't have a dedicated page. Sometimes makes trying to find anything about devs of a game a hassle
You could try Elementers next, still early access but free. It's a multiplayer action adventure game similar to Magicka. Yes, it's mine, and I would love to get some feedback on it. I love how you give feedback, it reminds me of josh strife hayes
Thanks! JSH is an inspiration for me, I love his review style and narration. Magicka was a great game, so I'm interested in what you're working on! I've had a few community members have their games featured in live streams, so let me know if that's something that would interest you - when you feel the game is ready and the time is right of course.
I'm not sure why, but it's a fairly common steam issue I have where clicking on a *developer* takes me to the publisher instead. Makes it a pain in the ass to browse indie games.
A game about building an airport could be pretty cool. All the economics of building thing, working with contractors, sponsors, talking and organising with airlines, it would be a really cool resource sim. Oh well
Hey Graeldon, I think you put a typo in your timecodes. The Verdict is set in the middle of the review and the Outro is set for when the Verdict should be.
I'm so sick of all this mobile game shovelware plaguing Steam like a disease. It's almost impressive how much of this garbage is bloating the platform if it weren't so abhorrent.
I would assume Gamehouse is actually the main company, because they are a more popular name in casual gaming. I've seen another game similar to this in their library, which doesn't seem to be available anymore. However something to note about casual gaming is that the ownership and distribution of games within that sphere can be very in flux, especially when older companies like Gamehouse are involved.
I wonder how far he is from 100% orange juice, because oh boy, thats my favourite game to get fucked by the game RNG. Does not matter how good you are, RNG WILL MAKE SURE YOU SUFFERED. Its a fun game.
I think the game is supposed to be implying WE’RE the killer? I think us meeting with Yang Qin is a flash back, implying we set this whole thing up. Honestly the only thing that makes sense.
Think about it.......we only have 100 days to rebuild an entire airport? We are assuming the MC is the only one doing this? Even small scale constructions take entire teams to complete at a resonable time. And even then, small projects take a couple days to fully complete. Assuming each level is a day......How she is building entire airport sections that quickly is astounding. Someone with that talent should be looking for some construction job. With their talents? They would have no trouble finding a job thats gonna pay better and be more rewarding then an airport staff. Edit: Its not uncommon unfrotunateky for these games to have the protagonist opening some sort of bussiness that in real life, could NEVER open and sell product legally. My favorite example is resturant games that have a collapsing building, a kitchen and a couple chairs and then just say, "well since my dead grandparent owned this delapidated building! I can just open and sell without issue!" If you try and open a kitchen without a health inspectors approval, they could shut you down like that. Doesnt matter if the hand sink is already installed, you place it in the wrong spot, you have to find a way to put it in the right spot or you arent allowed to sell food. (Inspections will vary from place to place but thete are a lot of things that are generally agreed on)
Man, if you want to play a REALLY good match 3 game, play Hero Emblems II. Seriously one of the best match 3 games I've played. Be warned, Hero Emblems II is made for veteran match 3 players, that understand RPG mechanics. The difficulty is GREAT, so long as you use all the tools that the games gives you. I am so entirely bent of shape, that that game sits at "mixed" right now, just because people complained about the difficulty of the game, saying it was "unbalanced", when the problem was them not using all the tools that the game gave them. It deserves so much better, and I hope this game gets the recognition it deserves. I will admit, that the game doesn't really explain itself well, and it's a bit tedius, but if you've played older games as well as turned based RPGS, you'll feel right at home.
Honestly respect the commitment to the genre blend, and power to you for enjoying it, but that's a hard sell for me, and I've played a (worse) version of what you're talking about already. I think a nuts-and-bolts combat JRPG combined with a random puzzle game makes me want to bathe with toasters
@@lancesmith8298 ah, I getcha. A lot of people think that match 3 is just random, but there's actually a LOT of strategy involved. This game leans HEAVILY into that. For instance, when you get to a certain point in the game, no match 3 attack does any damage to the enemy, you have to prove that you know how to match 4 and 5s (L and T shape). Matching 5 symbols in a row (vertically or horizontally), becomes very important and necessary, because that's how you use your super technique that lets you put up barriers from attacks. I'm telling you, it's very strategic, and not as much luck as you think. It's more about your skill, but yes, sometimes, there is luck involved. I'm telling you right now though, you're probably not gonna get very far on just luck alone.
I can't think of a single desperate broke family man who when at rhe end of their rope and feeling their world unravel would kill, or "annihilate" anyone!
Don't really think the game is intentionally racist. I think they were just trying to make everyone in the game aside from the protag have a "bad rep" (because even though the pilot is white and good looking he's also a cheating bastard so there's that) so the player would suspect everyone of the murder. At least that's what I'm hoping!
theres no way this game was made in 2022 it looks like a mf big fish title, like texbook big fish games. Like i cant believe they still charge 2006 prices for games that are this outdated big fish games
Your point about the dev page linking straight to the publisher page may actually be tax evasion, or more suitably, global compliance. Many of their games have different developers but all linking to hh games. It's also possible it's a game conglomerate that hires freelancers who don't/can't get their names associated so that's why there's so many
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Unlike every other match 3 game which makes you ask "what does the story have anything to do with this match 3 game", this game goes one level beyond and makes me ask what the hell do fruits have anything to do with airplanes or airports?
one time i saw a music video for a song where a dude knocks over apples at an airport and he picks them up and some blind girl says he's jesus
@@liamneedsauniquehandle 10/10 story
The only way you could connect the two is either make the game about tropical vacations: planes are needed to go to islands and islands have fruit or to make the game about not running an airport but a business where you import and export fruits.
i always like to imagine the protagonists have magical match 3 powers that just never get brought up. so lee here is actually solo building the whole airport with her magical abilities.
i might actually be interested in such a game if it was entirely self aware
Absolutely sure that dialogue was written by a non-native speaker with google translate in hands. "security" instead of "safety" is pretty understandable mistake for a person who doesn't have enough expirience with nuisances of a language and just chose cooler sounding word in a list of synonyms.
I can’t tell if using nuisances instead of nuances is on purpose or not but its funny either way
@@caoilfhionndunbar it's accidental but it drives point home so I'm keeping it as is XD
Safety sounds soft
In some languages (such as Italian), those two words are not even distinct, so a native speakers of such a language might be entirely unfamiliar with the possibility of there being such a nuance in the first place.
@@IreneSaltini oh word, Portuguese is like that too. Maybe all romanic languages are like that (french notwithstanding. Maybe.)
it's like they came up with 4 different potential plotlines for their casual match 3 game and decided to just throw them all in the same game
And resolve none of them. The Tommy Wiseau Special.
Oof, the idea of a murder mystery match 3 is interesting, but it doesn't even pull through with the most important part, the reveal of the murderer
What murder? We were too busy building an airport, going on dates, settling lawsuits and smuggling goods over the border to notice that someone died.
If you want to play an actual game like that, check out "Small Town Murders", same developers as Angry Birds
The developer and publisher aren't (necessarily) the same person, Steam just lets publishers redirect the devs to the publisher page if they want. 2 Left Thumbs has a little video about it
Came here to mention this, you see it a lot especially with a newer dev whom only has 1 or 2 games under their name while their publisher has 5+ but you even will see it in cases with bigger names. If a powerhouse like Capcom puts your game on Steam they're likely getting that redirect no matter what.
You are never gonna escape the numeral section of the steam store. It is literally impossible.
I did some rough math at the start of the series - it'll take about 14 years, at a rate of 1 game per week. We're actually ahead of schedule lol
@@Graeldon Goodness gracious, hopefully this accounts for the amount of games that release daily. I can't imagine the pain of pushing through all of these.
@@WhiteOut_RBLX as someone who scraped the list of steam games for a Uni Project once I can tell you that in the few hours it took to scrape there were at least like 50 games added (which fucked up my sorting originally since it means that the game list moves)
It is simply the standard of murder mysteries to leave all the investigation in the protagonist's hands, no matter who they are.
"That's a tough one and police force does have detective. Hey you! Yes you! help us solve us that murder case"
"But I'm just janitor"
"And you're the most qualified person out there"
Even the victim.
Also, the cliché of the protagonist being accused of murder, which forces them to investigate to clear their name, isn't new either
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How much gambling do you have to do to owe money to an entire city? 💀
Not enough, I gotta keep gambling if I want to win!
@guydoesthings7580 just keep gambling, just keep gambling
He wasn't even playing, he was just the dealer! So many questions, so few answers
I feel like this could've been a perfectly decent game without the plot. Just an aviation themed match 3 game. Or get rid of the mystery and just have the plot be about getting an old airport back up and running. Also get rid of the racism.
Okay, with the game saying it's a total of 100 days, and there are 100 levels, it implies that each level is one day.
Which also means we build pieces of the airport within a day or two FROM SCRATCH!
Oh, it's much less. It's proven that 100 levels is not equal to 100 days - the airport is done by day 88.
That ending where you realized that the ONLY plot thread that was resolved was that the airport got built reminded me of the ending of the latter two Xenus games. Both end right when a bigger story you will never get to see is only just starting, but hey, you were only tasked with doing X, and in doing whatever brings about the cliffhanger, you do check that off.
Congrats, player, you found out why your home planet exploded! Don’t worry about how the answer was a small part of a big ancient tech conspiracy that could threaten the galaxy, that’s not your problem anymore.
That is honestly cool ngl. Atleast as a concenpt that can be done right, like in any singular game you're playing from the perspective of 1 singular character and see just a small part of the bigger picture. Then in other games in this series you play as other people and also see, this time different, parts of the bigger picture. Imo that's a neat idea on paper
At this rate, it will only take you 3 years to reach the first game in my personal library in alphabetical order. No I will not say what that is.
You'd better comment on it when it gets played, otherwise this comment will haunt me forever
Am I the only one who thinks that all of the portraits live down in the Uncanny Valley? I think it's the eyes.
100% agree
well that sure is a title
Sounds like a news report
Bruh
I think it's ironic that we are explicitly told that this airport isn't even allowed to carry passenger flights yet, like how are we making money and what is Ray the Pilot doing all day?😅
Maybe it's goods shipments? But other than that, idk
Ray looking even more Sus
Drug smuggling??
I know this is irrelevant to the game you are playing but I just want to mention how I really like the fact you play the music from the game as the background music for your reviews!
This one featured music from the game in the verdict and final part of the review section. Everything else was music sourced from Epidemic Sound, which I use as a music library in a lot of videos due to issues with game music getting copyright strikes.
I do try to use game music wherever possible though!
The significance of “HH” and the number 88, plus the slightly racist setting, makes me think this might be a “Yahtzee” dog whistle, if you know what I mean
Yeah, If i had a penny for every neonazi dogwhistle in this potentially racist match 3 game i would have 2 pennies, which isn't a lot but it speaks volumes that it happened twice
Oh and i also found them using the 88 dogwhistle on their twitter (giving away specifically 88 codes for their game) and the developer is German. Looks like they know what they're doing.
yeah i had the same thoughts
Not even the first reference to neo[blind] conspiracies in this series. Mercifully rare given how many we've covered so far, but 2 out of a random sample of like 50 is worrying
Honestly given how the developers are known by like 3-4 different names I wouldn't put much stock in the dev name here. It feels like some devs who are mildly racist trying to create a plot and utterly failing, but I don't think they're trying to dogwhistle.
HH games is a terrible company name for another reason. Being the short form of a salute of a certain country isn't great.
It could be that HH games is one of those companies that do nothing but convert crappy mobile games as ports to PC.
Every time I hear about a match 3 game, I can only think "ah, so it's like Huniepop but bad"
Beyond everything this game had to offer... from the repetitive music and gameplay to the nonsensical story and shallow characters... the thing that disturbed me the most is the CONSTANT EYE CONTACT. Why is everyone staring directly at you??!!
Wow, what a hunk...
Yes, i'm the state champion in...
@@TomaszRyszkowski imma just assume that the sentence ends in "sex"
anticip.............
...ation.
@@TomaszRyszkowski Very soft bed.
@@TomaszRyszkowski ....mass murder
I love that in their settings, not only do you have to *manually* apply their cursor, but it's a setting you can just ignore. It's like they knew how bad it was, and tried to bury it instead of just removing it.
dragon scimitar is still the best custom cursor. Only real OG's will get that reference. And a few computer viruses
I don't have an answer for why clicking the devs name also takes you to the H H page, but for what it's worth I've had the same thing happen with a couple games from more obscure devs/games.
Maybe that happens, when the publisher doesn't have their own page, but the developer has?
So steam honestly just kinda does that, if you tired to look at tango gameworks it takes you to Bethesda's page for example. Same for if you wanna look at a lot of games from both minor and major devs. This was a change steam made a long time ago if I recall and yes. Yes it's shitty.
2:35 it's also extremely common for mobile app store versions of games to be listed under the people who ported it or under the game's mobile-specific publisher, e.g. Slay the Spire is developed and published by Mega Crit, but is published on mobile by Humble Games
I imagine that the reason some questions at end of dialogue don't get answers is for the reason you discovered and mentioned early on in the review, that the last line of dialogue don't trigger.
It does make me assume, with a simplified explanation here, that every time it loaded in dialogue it checked which line it was at prior to loading in the line, so the game saw it reached last line and then went "well, that is the last line. we should end the dialogue" rather than show the line. It'd be a pretty easy mistake to make from a programing perspective, though that would mean the creators didn't pay attention to the dialogue in the game if/when they ran tests.
I managed to find the full script file while poking around in the game file and can confirm that only the one line that I mentioned doesn't trigger. Everything else is exactly as scripted
@@Graeldon That's even more odd to be honest, I could see a couple reasons as to why but it'd be purely speculative.
At least one missed line is more reasonable than every last line being missed from a testing perspective.
@@Graeldon I was going to comment something like this too until you mentioned you’d checked the script for this in the video. Honestly, the fact that you WEREN’T losing dialogue boxes makes it even weirder: why did so many scenes end before they should have? Were those the devs’ idea of cliffhangers?
To answer on the publisher/developer split: maybe tax evasion but there can be a legit reason to split a publishing company and developer company even if it's the same people: you can have different pools of investors who buy into one, but not the other. Could also be they wanted to use DBAs for the same company (like one DBA is for developer, one for publishing on Steam, one for publishing on mobile). DBA being different names the company is allowed to operate.
Someone else brought up a developer can just redirect their page to the Steam publisher page for whatever reason.
I guess this game is *plane* bad.
Seriously though, I would rather play this game than flying with a Boeing.
I appreciate a pun, and dark humour, and it seems like you managed to wing both of them. Now jet on outta here
Either way there are unsolved murders involved
not only all the usual terrible plot... you missed the fact in the dialogue there, the first thing Lee does when she becomes boss of the airport is say she's happy with the pilots and mechanics, but she has a bunch of stewardesses to fire, implying that typical stereotype that the cheating Ray isn't to blame and she still plans on keeping him around, maybe even pursuing something with him, but anyone he might consider attractive or might be inclined to cheat on Lee with (even though they weren't in a relationship??) will lose their job..?? So not his fault for being a playboy, but any woman he manages to seduce is then made unemployed... fantastic writing! What a terrible game, thanks for sharing!
I so greatly appreciate that the Phoenix Wright reference comes IMMEDIATELY after discussion of a stepladder. 😂
'Casual games such as mahjong' (I know there's a lot of western games that use mahjong tiles for anything but actual mahjong, probably because the actual game is too complicated for them)
True, Mahjong is actually pretty complex!
Yakuza 0 paltinum has scared me for life
Only like a third of the way through this video, and so far I think our main character has a HUGE problem with saying the quiet part out loud. It's okay to THINK to YOURSELF, "Wow, what a hunk", when an attractive person walks in, in a professional setting. Lots of people THINK about how awful their boss is, but they don't actually go around _saying out loud_ stuff like "What a drunken idiot" and "I'd like to DEAL with him..."
The question here isn't who offed the boss. The question here is how Lee herself didn't get offed, and REALLY quickly. :P
As a former aircraft mechanic, and current aircrew member; yes, there is 100% a bad blood triangle in aviation between mechanics, pilots, and aerospace engineers.
I love this series. "ooh are you gonna review this game at some point" Yes he is. Eventually.
Let's hope we figure out immortality pretty quickly then eh
You put in more effort into this video than these people who made the "game" ever will.
they told you to build an airpot. "functional" is optional. we know airports have aircraft but the aricraft being functional is always just assumed. and we know airports have gift shops. so of course the gift shop is more important than planes that can fly. LOGIC
@@Dragnfly_mynamewastaken Yeah, I was feeling that during Graeldon’s summary.
“Now we’re screwing around in the hotel. And now we’re dealing with the gift shop.”
“Uh, we do fly planes here, right…?”
Someone should explain to the devs what an airport is, because I’m not entirely convinced they know.
With the name HH and the title of this video I assume a certain painter with mommy issues
7:00 I'm sure it's a translation issue, possibly from a Slavic language: in many languages security and safety is the same word
I never knew match 3 could have racism in it, but ok
Imagine a match 3 game with basic symbols for different ethnic groups and every time you match one set of three symbols it plays a racially offensive common phrase or sound from that group, like star of David matching three goes "Oy Vey" a Muslim star and crecent does "Alluah ahkbar" and then the sounds get more racist as you get 4 or 5 in a row. This could get really offensive...
@@stigmaoftherose That would be so funny and probably extremely offensive.
@@danielgrezda3339 .....that sounds like a 45 year old conservative's idea of offensive, it would probably be featured in ahmed and salim cartoon as a gag
@@sharkenjoyer I don't care, I just want it for funny.
Coming this fall: Peggle, but every time you fullclear the board it drops a hard R
Very soft bed
I'm a sucker for match-games and Sudoku/Picross puzzles, so having something that merely does that competently but also offer a good story on top is just fine by me (check out Murder by Numbers on the Switch, if you're looking for Picross + Phoenix Wright investigations). This game feels like that's what they were going for at the start and had 2 separate scripts, not entirely sure which one they wanted to commit to. Only for the game to be nearing launch date, so the project manager ended up just smashing two incomplete scripts together and calling it a day. Maybe their suggestion of "Let's do both stories" was brushed off as a joke at first but no one called them out on it being a bad idea.
I'm looking forward to playing an actual competent game in this genre... might be a while before that happens though
@@Graeldon if it astropop actually counts as match 3 and not "we got magical drop at home", should only take about 10 years, otherwise, maybe 20 years
So, I thought I heard the name "HH Games" somewhere, and even briefly checked their Steam profile, and then continued the video only to realize your comment about adult content was a joke. I will make this very clear: I am on a parallel track to you, but in the unpublishable-to-TH-cam space of gaming. I am a seasoned spicy-ologist, and HH-games sounds so much like what you implied that I mistook them as somebody I've already seen shovelware from
Are you documenting your journey anywhere? I feel like there'd be an audience for that lol
Also, are you the same person who commented on my Doki Doki Family video ages ago?
@@Graeldon I somehow wasn’t on that video, and in any case I’m probably not documenting much of it anyway. I am very much outnumbered by people who care about one thing, and also don’t have the time to run anything more complicated than a blog (which I don’t have). On the bright side, my line of work is greatly hastened by the fact my roster of games is also completely free, because everything there is already pirated or just a passion project.
So aside from good video games that also so happen to be [prawn], I think the best thing I found doing this was 2084, a Twine-based cyberpunk dystopia mystery that trades in graphical fidelity and good taste to also be a self-contained ARG
Its the History chammel logo
I think it meant seucrity in the context of "feeling secure in" rather than like cameras and guards. The boss was cutting corners on making the machines safe and secure, persay. Not that this matters
Yeah that sounds like a faulty translation from a language where security and safety are a one word.
IIRC, the "Qin" in Yang Qin's name is pronounced as "Chin", not "Kin".
Though I'm not Chinese so please correct me if I'm wrong.
This story is giving bad, self-published mafia romance
The Screenshots of that Hercules Game look Kind of cool. But I bet it is similar Trash 🙃
Apparently they are some kind of real time tactics game? Not quite sure what to expect, or why they felt it needed so many sequels. Maybe there's some kind of cult following for the games?
We will never escape the 100 [X] games
The 1000's aren't actually that far away, we'll make it by the end of the year for sure
@@Graeldon And then the 10000’s. And the 100000’s.
I would not be surprised if someone released a game called 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 just to screw with you.
Dood, I just realized after you did the paper airplane out of 10 bit that your presentation style reminds me of Josh Strife Hayes. And it makes me want to watch more Josh Strife Hayes.
JSH is amazing! Definitely took some inspiration from him, but also trying to do my own thing =)
Its CamelCamelCamel, when he isnt playing Skyrim
Very, very soft bed
When this series gets to a real game it's going to be like christmas
The earliest I can think of is American McGee's Alice though so it's going to be a while
The closest we've been to an AAA title so far was .Hack
We were so extatic, that we made 3 whole videos on it lmao
@@TomaszRyszkowskitbf it was a collection of 3 ps2 games so makes sense why there'd be three videos
There are real games in the numbers category though trust me. 8 bit adventure 2 and 9 years of shadow. Just wait till we're out of the number 1 pit
Just FYI, "Qin" is pronounced "Chin."
Just an FYI, "Qin" would be pronounced closer to "Chin" than "Kin".
Similar fun fact related to Chinese: Xi is pronounced like Shi. This is why most people refer to X as "Xitter"
1:20 it's common for it to work like that if a developer doesn't have a dedicated page. Sometimes makes trying to find anything about devs of a game a hassle
You could try Elementers next, still early access but free.
It's a multiplayer action adventure game similar to Magicka.
Yes, it's mine, and I would love to get some feedback on it.
I love how you give feedback, it reminds me of josh strife hayes
Thanks! JSH is an inspiration for me, I love his review style and narration.
Magicka was a great game, so I'm interested in what you're working on! I've had a few community members have their games featured in live streams, so let me know if that's something that would interest you - when you feel the game is ready and the time is right of course.
@@Graeldon I had no idea you also do live streams, are you streaming on youtube or twitch?
@@RoberBot Right here on TH-cam! Keeps everything in one place, including the VODS
I'm not sure why, but it's a fairly common steam issue I have where clicking on a *developer* takes me to the publisher instead. Makes it a pain in the ass to browse indie games.
Maybe the killer were the friends we made along the way.
I'm actually rather surprised almost half the games so far were good.
That appears to have been caused by hitting a patch of "100 Hidden Objects" games that Graeldon enjoyed. Before that it was like, a third or so.
some decent entries in the 100 hidden series certainly helped things, but don't worry, there's plenty of time to fix it yet.
this is amazing, I´m so invested simply because the story makes 0 sense
someone came to ask me something when i started this video and said oh this game looks good
Hopefully you corrected them later
Great script and delivery on this one
Thanks!
A game about building an airport could be pretty cool. All the economics of building thing, working with contractors, sponsors, talking and organising with airlines, it would be a really cool resource sim. Oh well
Hey Graeldon, I think you put a typo in your timecodes. The Verdict is set in the middle of the review and the Outro is set for when the Verdict should be.
I did, thank you for spotting that! Should be fixed now =)
I'm so sick of all this mobile game shovelware plaguing Steam like a disease. It's almost impressive how much of this garbage is bloating the platform if it weren't so abhorrent.
Just wait for the next video, you're gonna love it!
That does not fill me with a sense of joy!
Just so you know, Yang Qin is presumably a Chinese name and the Q would be pronounced like a soft "ch".
The gane's name made me think you were reviewing one game a day for 100 days
Yay at last a new video! I was just starting to run out of them
It could be that joyful games and HH-games were different companies and then merged into one
Is it just me, or does the character art seem AI generated as well as the script? There's something really off-putting about the art style lol
Have not seen either, but as somebody on kind of a sidequest to this series, never underestimate man's ability to overestimate
I would assume Gamehouse is actually the main company, because they are a more popular name in casual gaming. I've seen another game similar to this in their library, which doesn't seem to be available anymore. However something to note about casual gaming is that the ownership and distribution of games within that sphere can be very in flux, especially when older companies like Gamehouse are involved.
The Asian guy is my favorite character because he's the only one who's eyes aren't bugging out of their head
Game doesn't have Austin from Gardenscapes 0/10 don't ask my why i have knowledge about Gardenscapes.
Omg hi akor!
@@TomaszRyszkowski Heya Tai nice Editing laughed hard over the Bobn't Joke
Gardenscapes 10 hour lore dump when?
fyi the q in pinyin (unfortunately the standard for chinese romanization) is equivalent to the 'ch' sound in english
Okay so, whats all this gotta do with matching fruits and shapes????
Oh yeah, this’ll be a good one
I wonder how far he is from 100% orange juice, because oh boy, thats my favourite game to get fucked by the game RNG. Does not matter how good you are, RNG WILL MAKE SURE YOU SUFFERED.
Its a fun game.
It's still a few months away, but hopefully before the end of the year. It's around 15 games away at the moment
@@Graeldonwhen do you think you'll reach number 8?
@@Graeldon Nice nice! Can't wait to hear your opinion. I like it, but I don't know if you will. :D
Probably around 8-10 years lol. We're gonna be here for a while
I think the game is supposed to be implying WE’RE the killer? I think us meeting with Yang Qin is a flash back, implying we set this whole thing up.
Honestly the only thing that makes sense.
i survived 100 days in airport civilization (full movie)
Think about it.......we only have 100 days to rebuild an entire airport? We are assuming the MC is the only one doing this?
Even small scale constructions take entire teams to complete at a resonable time. And even then, small projects take a couple days to fully complete. Assuming each level is a day......How she is building entire airport sections that quickly is astounding.
Someone with that talent should be looking for some construction job. With their talents? They would have no trouble finding a job thats gonna pay better and be more rewarding then an airport staff.
Edit: Its not uncommon unfrotunateky for these games to have the protagonist opening some sort of bussiness that in real life, could NEVER open and sell product legally. My favorite example is resturant games that have a collapsing building, a kitchen and a couple chairs and then just say, "well since my dead grandparent owned this delapidated building! I can just open and sell without issue!" If you try and open a kitchen without a health inspectors approval, they could shut you down like that. Doesnt matter if the hand sink is already installed, you place it in the wrong spot, you have to find a way to put it in the right spot or you arent allowed to sell food.
(Inspections will vary from place to place but thete are a lot of things that are generally agreed on)
Publishers and developers have different standards so it helps that one would be sued and the other continues
Omfg why does the artstyle look like that. their eyes are so big and weird
The cover didn't make sense at first.
The investigator looks like pinely lol
That tittle is wild brother
12:12 clearly bob owes him money
I do wonder if the devs even HAD a planned answer or they just wrote barely enough story
"I worked for match 3, hes a fraud"
Man, if you want to play a REALLY good match 3 game, play Hero Emblems II. Seriously one of the best match 3 games I've played. Be warned, Hero Emblems II is made for veteran match 3 players, that understand RPG mechanics. The difficulty is GREAT, so long as you use all the tools that the games gives you. I am so entirely bent of shape, that that game sits at "mixed" right now, just because people complained about the difficulty of the game, saying it was "unbalanced", when the problem was them not using all the tools that the game gave them. It deserves so much better, and I hope this game gets the recognition it deserves.
I will admit, that the game doesn't really explain itself well, and it's a bit tedius, but if you've played older games as well as turned based RPGS, you'll feel right at home.
Honestly respect the commitment to the genre blend, and power to you for enjoying it, but that's a hard sell for me, and I've played a (worse) version of what you're talking about already. I think a nuts-and-bolts combat JRPG combined with a random puzzle game makes me want to bathe with toasters
@@lancesmith8298 ah, I getcha. A lot of people think that match 3 is just random, but there's actually a LOT of strategy involved. This game leans HEAVILY into that. For instance, when you get to a certain point in the game, no match 3 attack does any damage to the enemy, you have to prove that you know how to match 4 and 5s (L and T shape). Matching 5 symbols in a row (vertically or horizontally), becomes very important and necessary, because that's how you use your super technique that lets you put up barriers from attacks. I'm telling you, it's very strategic, and not as much luck as you think. It's more about your skill, but yes, sometimes, there is luck involved. I'm telling you right now though, you're probably not gonna get very far on just luck alone.
You had me at r4clst.
I can't think of a single desperate broke family man who when at rhe end of their rope and feeling their world unravel would kill, or "annihilate" anyone!
10:19 - Wouldn't that be a self-portrait then?
Don't really think the game is intentionally racist. I think they were just trying to make everyone in the game aside from the protag have a "bad rep" (because even though the pilot is white and good looking he's also a cheating bastard so there's that) so the player would suspect everyone of the murder. At least that's what I'm hoping!
Very nice video.
im always the prime suspect....👺
Day 348 of waiting for Celeste
theres no way this game was made in 2022 it looks like a mf big fish title, like texbook big fish games.
Like i cant believe they still charge 2006 prices for games that are this outdated big fish games
Wow that Bob for sure Bobn't
H H games? More like H.H Holmes, amiright?
I'll be honest, HH games made me think of a little more fashy lmao...
Your point about the dev page linking straight to the publisher page may actually be tax evasion, or more suitably, global compliance. Many of their games have different developers but all linking to hh games. It's also possible it's a game conglomerate that hires freelancers who don't/can't get their names associated so that's why there's so many