Harold Halibut - does he finally get with the fish? (teddyras)

Man, this game could have been good if they decided to you know, write it good. The set up was done well, the characters had the potential to be interesting, the setting was cool, but then like nothing happens the whole game. Basically it can be summarized as: people on another planet want to leave the planet, and they do. Like, why did they completely leave out any form of conflict or meaningful growth, I don't understand, these are like the basics of storytelling. It's only at the end that anything happens and it's just, everyone leaves, except harold, who finally grows sort of a spine and stays behind with the fish folk, and nobody cares.

The more I think about this game the more it pisses me off. It feels like part of the point was that harold gets pushed around a bunch, but they didn't do anything interesting with the gameplay about it. For one, you never have dialogue options, which you can work with that, but also they never have any like conflicting orders from people, forcing harold to choose. For example, they could have someone tell harold to do something, but another person soon after on the way tell him to do a conflicting thing and you have to choose who to listen to, and it could you know, affect the story. Instead it's a purely narrative experience, but like I said, the writing sucks and the game drags on so much, that it gets frustrating.

Also the motivations were just sort of implied and everyone just goes along with everything in general. For example, the receive a message saying earth is fine, nobody is arguing over this about if they should head back to earth or go further to an earth-like planet or stay. Instead, everyone just talks about relaunch procedure, but to where? who cares, harold's staying behind, not his problem I guess, but we don't know this until you find the fish person, so it left me confused about why we're doing anything a lot of the time. Also discovering intelligent life didn't make a let's stay crowd show up, nobody protested all water introducing capitalism to the fish folk or messing with them, like things just happen in this game and when you think it would advance the plot, it barely squeezes it onward.

This game ends up very frustrating the more you think about it, it had potential, but man, go back to school, learn to write lmao. Hope you enjoyed watching, don't buy the game, watching it is the same as playing it basically. Also I think the story wasn't good, so like, not worth seeing it on your own. The digitized clay models were cool, the setting was cool, the set up could have been something and they like they just don't do anything, I'm so mad.

Original Air Date: April 2024

0:00 Day 46 catching up with what happened, more mail quest, and conspiracy
1:26:49 Day 47 hanging out in the mall for 5 seconds
1:36:40 after pc crash, I have to repeat that one long day ;_;
2:31:58 Caught Up from The Crash
2:58:41 Day 54 figuring out how to go down the weird fish hole
3:24:15 Day 68 party time
3:51:31 Day 69 descending down the hole, it gets weirder
4:21:35 Day 83 it almost looks like conflict is happening
5:09:19 Like 6 Months Later they let him fuck the fish, but implied off screen
5:30:35 Credits & Thoughts