Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90...
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace's wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.
As part of your job as a Hypnospace Enforcer, you'll be watching out for copyright infringement, internet bullying and more, with reports and rewards coming direct from the Hypnospace Patrol Department to your inbox. In your spare time, you can customize your HypnOS desktop however you see fit, with a variety of downloads, wallpapers, screen savers and helper bots to keep you company.
So slip on your Hypnospace Headband™, and keep these key directives in mind:
Crawl through Cyberspace: Scour the darkest corners of the Web for scumbag users who violate Hypnospace law!
Dangers and delights: Download groovy GIFS and MIDI files, but watch out for adware, toolbars and hackers!
Treasure hunting: Do your job to earn Hypnocoins, or ignore your inbox and go hunting for hidden pages, downloads and secrets!
Relive your childhood: Equip obnoxious screensavers and skins for your desktop, and wiggle your mouse pointer around to make pages load faster!
If you were on AOL in the 90s, you need this game. Fun, inventive, and nostalgic. I didn't think a game like this could have a storyline, let alone one that is as awesome as it is. 10/10. 100% would recommend.
Hypnospace outlaw is less of a game than semi-visual novel - an experince which you can really only have once. It is clearly a labour of love and passion by the dev team and an application of effort far beyond expectations for a normal team. It is hilarious, self aware and passionate.
The biggest issue is just how nitche it is, catering particually and specifically to nostalgia for millenials who remeber the "old internet". Those without the exprience of garish hompages and idiosycratic blogs which perveyed the experice of "surfing" the internet in the 90's and early 2000's will in most cases be initially turned off. The process of playing the game is paradigm of sheilding your eyes from worce and worce mostrocities of idiosyncractic design and sound, which is charming and even impressive if you understand the context and satire of the game, but offputting if you were too young to experince this time period, or just did not frequent the internet during this time.
The game just drops you in the deep end of startlingly outdated UIs and Synthesied Music and then shrugs, expecting you to get it really. Perhaps an onboarding system or disclaimer, helping other who arent immidiately familar with the topic of satire would have helped adjust expectaions and permitted borader appeal.
Greater use of Video and Interactive mini-games in exchange for reading could have been applied to move Hypnospace outlaw less in the realm of visual novel and more in the realm of multi-media point-and-click adventure game - this might have also boadended it's appeal, especially with the ultra-innovative premise it may have been a massive hit.
This is not to critisise the game, i Love it, if you have read this far you should just play it - your expectations have already been set just by reading this and you will not be startled or confused.
The game is a masterpeice, I am only brainstorming ways it could have been more commerically succssesful and conseqeuntly prodused more sequals.
I keep coming back to it because it evokes a strange sense of nostalgia for a world that never really existed. This is not how the early internet looked like, but it sure is how it felt like.
There is a strange combination of using the old internet and playing those 90s activity center games within. I find myself just enjoying the soundtrack and clicking through random pages just like if I'm randomly browsing the actual net.
A fun puzzle game about the internet during the late 90s. Definitely points out the unceasing march of companies trying to make money ruining everything. Puzzles can sometimes be obtuse, but that's ok. Definitely try it out and if you're not great w/ puzzles, grab a guide so you can see it through.
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