The games in the Henry Stickmin series revolve around the misadventures of Henry, a rather bumbling and not-so-bright stick figure who often finds himself in ridiculous and high-stakes situations. While the series began as a collection of smaller Flash games on Newgrounds, it eventually evolved into a more extensive narrative with interconnected stories, leading to the creation of a complete series titled "The Henry Stickmin Collection." The Henry Stickmin games are renowned for their humor, clever writing, and unique choose-your-own-adventure style gameplay. Don’t bug him about it.Henry Stickmin is the titular character of a popular series of comedic and interactive Flash games created by PuffballsUnited, a.k.a. No, The Mad Welshman has not 100%ed this game. All I know is I found it a generally alright experience, except for the completionist stuff, which I hated. Masochistic completionists, I guess, old folks like me who get the memes, Newgrounds Nostalgics… Seriously, I don’t really know. Now, when it comes to the audience? I’ll freely admit, the appeal is somewhat niche. Choices are nice and big, the text is clear… The music is a bit of a mixed bag, but overall, it works. Or maybe I’m just an old.Īesthetically, well, it’s very clear. But overall, it picks some solid ones, fun references to Avatar, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Predator, Looney Tunes, Zelda, Pokemon, Phoenix Wright… I could go on for a fair while, but its silly humour lands more often than it misses. Gollywog dolls were too, and I sure as hell wouldn’t defend them. I’m also less than fond of it using infamous meme “Shoop Da Whoop” (A blackface meme), even considering that it was popular back in the day. I hate the completionist aspect of this one. And that one achievement where you have to click Gary Mann 5 times, or click where Henry’s going to land correctly in three different scenes… STANDO! The same with the paintings in Stealing the Diamond. There are people you have to click within about half a second, or multiple people you have to click within a few seconds, as many as 15. But Henry Stickmin wants to make it as hard for you as possible. So, normally, I would be fine with collectathons. As noted, there are quick time events (some of which are brutal, so folks not okay with twitchy games, note well), and… Collectibles. There are six episodes, one of which requires you to have completed all the endings of the previous two to complete (part one of “Completionists will hate this.”) Choose your method of getting past the obstacle, watch what happens, likely retry, rinse, repeat. And with him, you go on a choose your own adventure style game (but with some quick time events) where failing still provides entertainment. Henry Stickmin (not to be confused with Henry Stickman) is a not-great human, er… Stickman. Oh, and content warning flashing imagery for that. If you’re confused, this is an MLG replay of failing utterly by 360 no-scoping your friend there. It’s weird (unsurprising, considering it’s a meme ridden ex-Newgrounds series, a notable time for experimentation in Flash games, not always to the better, but enjoyably so, in this case), and yes, as a completionist, I can say that 100 percenting this game is a bastard. I mean, that’s a really good capsule summary. Try this one WEIRD game! Completionists will HATE it!
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