Posted on: April 14, 2025

evewen

Spiele: 8 Rezensionen: 1

Explore and decipher with a twist

The details, scenery and art design are delightful. I would highlight Hob as a really fun puzzle-platform game. The puzzle elements and mechanics of the game become more complex as we progress and increase our strength and skills. This is the most prevalent, but it also includes monsters scattered everywhere that we must eliminate (of configurable difficulty, but in no case campy or tedious). In any case, the fights are not the most decisive thing, if that's what you like. The game's narrative and story unfolds without words, which makes it very special, not in a bad way for me. But the story is not something very developed, original or complex, for those who value this. I appreciate that Hob doesn't offer a bombardment of stimuli and allows you to play at your own pace, enjoying the charm of the graphics or speeding through the jumping - or checking every hideout for new resources. You may feel lost on the map and in certain alleyways, but if you get stuck keep exploring and moving on to other places - you may need that exploration to move forward.

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Posted on: July 25, 2018

MotherKojiro

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Spiele: 481 Rezensionen: 196

Darksiders Sans Angst

I came into this expecting a 3D Super Metroid, and what I got wasn't quite that. Combat isn't terribly complex, but it is challenging, and that's a step up from most Action-Adventure titles already. There are a lot of comparisons to Zelda, but motion is fluid (including pushing blocks!), platforming requires skill, and it isn't so heavily structured that it suffocates the whole adventure. There will be areas that you can't reach initially, but more often than not, there's some sort of logical reason for it; some obstructions are from abilities that you don't have just yet, and to describe others would be a massive spoiler. It was genuinely a joy to explore, collect new abilities, and use them in combat or platforming. Admittedly, money is a bit tight, and there aren't really any good spots to grind, so buying all skills and garb will be a bit of a strain. The visuals are nice, if a little plain. There's a neat desert area with some strange vegetation and lightning strikes everywhere, but visual design doesn't stray terribly far from that; it's at least consistent. The ruins have some neat patterns on them, I suppose. There isn't all that much of a story, not that it needs it; the only real scenario thing that bugs me is the vista points. These are spots where your character stops to admire the scenery with a certain camera angle. The game finds these to be extremely important; while they don't actually do anything, they are marked on your map, and counted as something to find in underground segments. The thing is, though, that there isn't anything really all that special to look at, and this is from someone who is aesthetically driven. The game also has some weird glitches, though that's understandable, when you consider that the developer went under just before launch. I didn't encounter anything too devastating, though, and you shouldn't let that hold you back, if this seems interesting to you; it's really good!

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Posted on: August 9, 2020

diiistampy

Spiele: 79 Rezensionen: 6

Good distraction from your main game

Hob was on my wishlist for quite some time, and this is not only because it was made by Runic games, but also because it did look interesting. I thought that puzzle game where music is composed by Diablo 1 and 2 composer Matt Uelman has to be good. I loved the art, mystery and cool animations. I also enjoyed some of the world design, as well as overall ambient. However, this game was not exactly what I expected. It is not really a puzzle game, or platformer or action RPG, but a mix of elements from all genres mentioned. While the game is somewhat original, it is not really better in platforming than any platformer. Also, it does not have better puzzles than puzzle games and same can be said for combat and RPG elements as well. What kept me playing until the end of the game is not the story either, but a colorful world and lighthearted nature of the game. I played for 15 hours more or less, no major problems with game stability. I would like to recommend this game to younger people and the ones that want to take a break from larger and harder games.

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Posted on: October 2, 2017

Cal_Erikson

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 2

Loved it :)

In a nutshell: I found Hob to be an addicting, satisfying, and beautiful game of exploration and puzzle solving, with occasional combat :) I purchased Hob just before it released in part because I wanted that free copy of Stories, but rather than playing Stories I got hooked on Hob :) It's a gorgeous game to look at and explore. It took me about 20 hours to finish, collecting most, thought not all, extras. I didn't use any walkthroughs or hints and I felt the game plays quite fair - no "press this", then travel for 2 minutes to see if it had an effect, rinse and repeat, etc. At one point when there are long distance things being changed/effected by your actions the game and map alerts you to it. I did spend a certain amount of time running around trying to figure out what I was missing - the charm and beauty of the world helped make fairly enjoyable. Once I figured out what to do it always made sense. For me the puzzles hit a pretty sweet spot between satisfyingly challenging without being too frustrating/obscure. I played with mouse and keyboard - I found using the R mouse button to move to be easiest, though occasionally had to use WASD due to camera angle. You have no control over the camera angle which can be frustrating but also used to good effect in terms of framing puzzles and subtly leading you at times. The game ran very smooth at high graphic setting for me, but definitely stressed my CPU (~80%, with a i56600k and geforce 1060 6GB). I didn't experience any crashes but a couple graphical "glitches" where I'd get stuck and have to use the respawn option. Mild Spoilers: I loved the ending, but did find the last fight to be rather frustrating and ended up lowering the difficulty. Seemed like a huge difficulty spike - which makes sense, but for me I wasn't really playing it for the combat.

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Posted on: November 3, 2019

psadler

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Spiele: 901 Rezensionen: 23

Worth every penny

Loved every second of it, and it was a reasonably long game too so that's saying something (my attention wanders and so if I actually manage to complete something, it's worth taking note of). Lovely graphics with a pretty long draw distance here and there which really gave a sense of real depth to this strange world. Lots of collectables and secrets with quite a few nice fights thrown in too. A bit difficult to judge some of the jumps because of the perspective, made even worse because I had to use keyboard because the game wouldn't recognise my gamepad. Beautiful game.

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