REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

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REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

There is no doubt that the existence of point ‘n’ click adventures has been limited exclusively to the appetites of the indie scene. So in the absence of a great developer-leader with passion and vision, who will inspire all other developers for better and more productions, we have reached the sad point that their numbers are declining significantly year by year. Nevertheless, the quality is maintained at a fairly good level, certainly not as high as in the “golden” times of LucasArts and Sierra, but at least this year we saw nice things from Whispers of the Machine, Irony Curtain and Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure. The Angelo and Deemon the Ukrainian Specialbit Studios but fails to enter the above list. On the contrary, it is a brilliant example that says that creating a claimed adventure is a very difficult case.

REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

The descent to Hell starts from the elevator. For any information, call Manny.

By the way, the game starts with good omens. Certainly, the idea of ​​an abstract and tired Charo, who after an unfortunate event enters the wrong room, is not new but is implemented quite successfully. The victim is a “burned” blogger, Angelo, who is desperately trying to increase the number of his followers, but the weather had other plans that night. During the upload of his latest video, a thunderbolt causes a momentary voltage drop, which destroys the material he had so hard to collect. At that very moment, Haros knocks on his door and invites him to come with him to Hell. No choice, after all, we will all end up there.

REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

Desperate as Angelo is, as if his blog closes, he will be forced to find a regular job (ome) to live, he decides to follow Haro to Hell, to collect material (photos, videos, etc.), which is guaranteed to launch his followers.

Who reminds me, who reminds me…

And somewhere here, the good ideas that the people at Specialbit Studios had come to an end. Unfortunately, the sequel is frustrating and increasingly frustrating as we move on, with the game behaving as if it does not know how to manage its admittedly good starting point. First of all, Angelo’s purpose in collecting material for his blog fades along the way, he is only mentioned a few times, while he gets involved in a series of events with different characters and situations, which do not make much sense.

REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

And sidekick, the flying devil Deemon, who is introduced to us in the next scene and is supposed to be a rapper in his normal life, is a missed opportunity to create a memorable character. Indifferent and boiled, with a few of his efforts being successful, which may be due to the poor performance of the English language – without of course this being an excuse.

Do not be fooled by the big map. You can visit only three areas, while you can not go directly to the northeastern island, even if you have visited it dozens of times!

On the other hand, its puzzles, although not very difficult for someone who has played an adventure in his life (however, there is a built-in hint system, if we stick somewhere), seem to be more products of random implementation than careful design. This is more obvious than the fact that there are no clear guidelines for what to do or why we should follow a certain sequence of movements. We just try our luck with the items we have collected with the few hotspots in the environment and the even fewer talking characters we will encounter, hoping to find the solution to move on.

Admittedly, the game tries to make you laugh by clicking on the well-known recipe of introducing familiar elements from famous games and movies. For example, we will take Delorian to an inoculated (and practically completely irrelevant) scene, while the motorcyclist transporting Angelo and Deemon between the various areas of the map (do not imagine anything shocking, a handful of areas are only allowed to visit) is spitting the Ben from Full Throttle. These sequences are many and will cause you a curse, maybe a small dose of nostalgia, but they are also lost in all the sloppiness of the title.

REVIEW : Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest (PC)

It is very easy to fool a porter. Even if his English is not good (pun intended).

We do not think we need to devote more space to what Angelo and Deemon are. The intentions of the people at Specialbit Studios are good, their love for point ‘n’ click adventures and pop culture is obvious, but a good mood alone is not enough. If we wanted to give kudos to a field, this would be the field of graphics, which has an interesting artistic point of view and offers some beautiful images. Until then, however, because in matters of voice-over and background music (where it exists), it hardly catches the ground.

This car is very well known, but no one explains how it was found there.

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review-angelo-and-deemon-one-hell-of-a-quest-pcAs you can see, there are very few things to keep from Angelo and Deemon and the reason it gets the rating you read below is this. We hope that in the sequel it promises, Special bit Studios will take seriously the feedback it receives and will work much harder to correct its mistakes so that its next game can stand up decently.

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