The Humans Bundle

I never played this game back in the day but I remember looking at the reviews and advertisements in the computer magazines and thought it looked interesting. So when I had the chance X years later I decided it was time for me to finally check out The Humans. Every level is a puzzle where you must use the humans that you’ve been given for that specific level to accomplish a given mission. Often the goal of the level is to reach a specific location. Other times you need to kill dinosaurs or rescue people who’ve been captured by other humans. There are a couple of other tasks also in some of the levels. When you finish a level you are given a password. There are quite a lot of levels. As you’d expect from this kind of game the difficulty range from easy to very hard. If you do get stuck you could always check the Longplays on Youtube (I had to on to or three occations..). So when I finished what I thought was the final level another level was presented to me. Turns ot that the game also includes the add-on pack, called Insult to Injury, which consists of 80 new levels. Expect some challenges! The graphics in The Humans is pretty nice (the game came out in 1992). The music is quite enjoyable. It’s mostly cheerful and motivating. One thing that I miss in this game is an overview map, so you can check out parts of the level that you can’t see. This often leads to unnecessary mistakes and often that means starting the level from the beginning again. The game would also benefit from a little more variation in the gameplay, that’s the reason why I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5. So basically this is a puzzle game with some action element. If that’s your kind of game give The Humans a try!

Lots of pixel chasing to get the humans' position just right. I had to restart levels quite a bit and enjoy a long wait in between. The Humans and Humans 2 are pretty much the same game with different levels. Humans 3 introduces extra characters with different abilities, which in my opinion made it more awkward to play. I'm sure these games have great nostalgia value, but having never played them before I wouldn't recommend them to others like me.

Me and my siblings got pretty far in this game when we were little, but playing it again as an adult I have no idea how we had the patience--this game is HARD. Still, it's worth it to see the silly cutscenes that pop up every few levels, and I really do like the gameplay. The biggest flaw with this game, however, is that you carry over the number of humans you have left between levels--you can screw up an early level and then play a few more levels perfectly and then get to a level that tells you, "Sorry, you don't have enough humans to complete this level, Game Over."

I loved this game when I was a kid. I only had the first one and I don't think I ever finished it, but I loved the graphics and the music. I also enjoyed the concept. Replaying it is very nice and having the 2 & 3 (that I never played before) coming with it is a very nice bonus. The non-skippable animation at the beginning of the 3rd one is quite annoying though! It's also a different game play (to start with, it's using the mouse) and I didn't try it much yet.