Players take on the role of a flying, Technicolor being, like a curious kite. With the vision to create an experience free of typical video games pressures, Honeyslug delivers inspiring and unique gameplay in Hohokum.
The vibrantly whimsical game emphasizes exploration and creativity with a playful touch. The game's trophy list reveals that it's possible to see and do everything in under an hour, though your first play will take considerably longer.Hohokum is a distinct creative collaboration between artist Richard Hogg and Honeyslug, a London-based game studio.
Your reflexes are not tested at any point, and objectives often devolve into finding one interactive element and dragging it to another interactive element. Once you boil down Hohokum's visual noise, though, you'll find that its underlying mechanics are actually very simple. Like Proteus and other recent experimental games, Hohokum is less about gameplay and more about providing a memorable and ostensibly meaningful experience for the player. Fulfilling each area's unspoken requirements frees one of your wormy friends, who rejoin you at the game's hub area. One area asks you to ferry residents around a multi-tiered water park, while another has you serving drinks to a wedding party floating atop a purple ocean. Within some of these worlds are vaguely defined goals that require experimentation to discover. Unlike many games, Hohokum's gameplay is less structured and more free-flowing, allowing players to travel between its many worlds at their leisure. You won't be able to intuit the way the game's flora and fauna will react to your presence through observation alone it's only through direct interaction that you'll discover their purpose. Hohokum forces players to construct their own meaning in its often minimalist visuals. Your curiosity is rewarded with visual flourishes and pleasing audio cues that accompany almost every interaction within the game's psychedelic worlds. thing with an eye on its head – up against its backdrops. You'll suss out its mechanics by exploring its colorful worlds and brushing your character – a long. Hohokum's audiovisual splendor is irresistible and you won't regret the time you spend with it, but the end result can't quite gel into a complete and fulfilling experience.Gameplay in Hohokum is flowing and intuitive, offering little in the way of overt instruction. There isn't much gameplay or challenge beneath its beautiful exterior, though.
Like Sesame Street's interstitial cartoons in particular, Hohokum often feels like it was made not because it's trying to say something important, but simply because it looks cool. Minutes after starting it up, I was reminded of Pinball Number Count, Yellow Submarine, and other animated works from the '60s and '70s in the way Hohokum overloads the senses with contrasting imagery tied to a unifying theme.
Hohokum is essentially a playable cartoon.
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