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Harold Halibut

PS5 Details

Native PS5 application
Yes

Details

Genre
Release Date
April 16, 2024
Metacritic Score
71

Reviews

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Good
  • Harold Halibut has colourful cast of characters
  • Rich, tactile world
  • Interesting narrative
  • Quality of writing is top-notch
  • Voice performances are excellent
  • Fitting soundtrack
  • Good area-specific jingles
  • Steady performance
  • Impressive world-building
  • Successful in delivery of story
Bad
  • Movement in game is a little laboured
  • Lots of fetch quests
  • Menial tasks can get grating
  • Some aspects of gameplay may be aimless or plodding
  • Game is relatively light in gameplay terms
  • Continual revisiting of same locales
Good
  • Visually Harold Halibut is a triumph
  • Characters and environments are meticulously crafted
  • Incorporation of traditional model making and sculpting techniques
  • Graphics and animations have a unique tactile quality
  • Boasts a wide variety of eccentric characters
Bad
  • Described as one of the dullest games
  • Gameplay reduces to repetitive task completion
  • Limited interaction options
  • Dialog selection does not accurately reflect player choices
  • Poor player-character connection
  • Character navigation is challenging
  • Slow and padded out narrative pacing
  • Much of the narrative is uneventful
Good
  • Visually interesting game
  • Enchanting art style
  • Unique and detailed aesthetic
  • Interesting sci-fi premise
  • Handmade artwork is scanned into the game
  • Resembles a claymation film
  • Some bright moments in the story
  • Interesting personalities among characters
Bad
  • Game becomes dull over time
  • Gameplay is protracted and shallow
  • Little activity within the game
  • Character moves at a slow pace
  • Too much reliance on story and characters
  • Narrative fails to live up to its potential
  • Dialogue often unnecessarily long and complicated
  • Unresolved story beats
  • Most of the game is slow, repetitive walking
  • Narrative doesn't hold everything together
  • Pacing issues and iffy writing

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