Posted on: October 17, 2023
yreneb
Verified ownerGames: 281 Reviews: 24
Positive surprise AND disappointment.
(+) The game has a basically interesting and exciting story. Visually, Hauma is well done and looks stylish. The voice-act is not bad either. Hauma also proves that a graphic novel COULD be combined very well with the game mechanics of a point and click adventure. (-) The characters and the dialogue are often rather flat and wooden. There is usually a lack of depth. An important supporting character is just annoying and clearly only has the function of advancing the story through his stupid bad decisions and scaremongering. The story sometimes seems hobbled and illogical. Once you even had to do such a morally reprehensible thing to a person in order to get ahead that your sympathy with the protagonist sinks to zero. There really could have been more in it - I would say the story would have had Gabriel Knight-like potential if it had been better realised. I was also very annoyed by the puzzle design, which oscillates between too easy and annoyingly repetitive. Especially that you have to combine some things in a certain order without it being logical. And when I write that a graphic novel COULD go well with the adventure game mechanics, I mean to imply that in the case of Hauma, unfortunately, this has not been fully achieved. In particular, the inventory without the possibility to combine things with the objects in a scene was clearly a bad decision by the developers. Finally, there are few technical bugs and shortcomings that will hopefully be eliminated with batches: Sometimes the background sounds are not played in scenes or the voice-over is missing in parts of the dialogue. Sometimes objects from the inventory are not displayed correctly. In addition, it is not possible to set the text language. For example, I would have liked to have an English text for the English voice-over and not a German one. Despite all the negatives, the game was still fun and exciting.
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