Posted on: May 16, 2020
ApatheticExcuse
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More beloved now than then
Hugo is one of those games that's apparently aged a lot better than it had any right to. Back when these first came out, they weren't generally quite as loved - I remember everyone playing them and talking about them, probably because you couldn't open a gaming magazine without a shareware hugo disk falling out of it, but no one would ever actually *enjoy* playing them. While I'm sure there was a sizable cult following back in the day (much like awful games have them now), it wasn't actually popular - just omnipresent. In terms of the problem - it's hard to know where to start. While the current versions have point and click support, and that might work great, the originals had nothing but arguably the most mentally deficient parser ever concieved. Bad parsers are a reality of these types of games, but all three in the series presented multiple moments that required the use of a *specific*, usually grammatically incorrect or contextually nonsensical word. Much of the game is spent trying to guess these words The actual puzzles also literally defined "illogical adventure puzzle". Some aren't even puzzles. Here's one for you: "What's the name of Roy Roger's dog?" That's it. The entire puzzle. No answer in game, no clues, no hints, no internet to look it up on because it's 19-fricken-90 and relatively few of us were lucky enough to have easy access to such a thing. They were ugly, even for the time. They'd kill you randomly and unfairly, even for the time. They'd dead end you after hours of play, without warning because you missed a timed event in the first three minutes of the game that had zero indicators. It's tempting to read this and go "oooh, dark souls 1990" or something, but no. These weren't "fun hard", they were just crappy games that started as a knockoff of a better game, and hid their poor quality behind punishing the player for buying them. After one play through (i.e. you can deal with the bad design), you can finish them in less than an hour each.
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