I’ve never really played on pc much. In fact I played the entirety of this game on my laptop so that just goes to show how much I use pc. This is basically the only game I’ve played on my ‘pc’ and the only one probably powerful enough for my laptop so there’s that. I decided to get this game after playing a little bit of among us and deciding I wanted to try what else innersloth had made…and then this came up.

The one thing I love about this collection is the references. They are everywhere and they’re wonderful (each time you’ll definitely point your finger at the screen and reenact once upon a time in Hollywood). Each game is also really fun and bustling with its different humour and ideas that it works really well. There is also a new game known as ‘completing the mission’ which perfectly ties everything together and offers the same amount of comedy and originality from the previous games.

Funny characters, smart references, still love fleeing the complex, this is the greatest gaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmeeeeee-

every voice actor in this game (of which i imagine theres like 5 at most) sounds like theyre trying not to wake up their parents in the next room over

the true cultural juggernaut that was Henry Stickmin mostly flew past me in my preadolescence. while i was certainly aware of that sort of newgrounds and newgrounds-adjacent style of flash game of the time i was more preoccupied with more superior, high brow content (hotelweegee YTPs). i'd played through one or two of them years ago with a friend but had zero recollection of anything in them besides a vague memory of finding them funny. thus, in a divine combination of randomly getting recommended clips of it on youtube, feeling nostalgic and a random steam sale, the planets aligned for me to revisit this true childhood classic.

it feels bad for me to dump on something clearly made for people whos sense of humor wasnt permanently altered by the afformentioned hotelweegee ytps but its just kinda not funny. weak slapstick, whedonisms and epic references are the extent of what we get here. not even the funny kind of references! its like, jojo and shit! whoo boy! its like the video game equivalent of deep diving on tvtropes; you click a bunch of random links that branch in random directions that occasionally get a nose exhale out of you until you decide 5 minutes in you could be doing something better.

i admire the effort tho? animations all really well done for what it is, the voice acting is servicable, it wasnt like a groan inducing kind of unfunny for whatever thats worth. the weird effort of making a name and bio for every half a second on screen npc was the best part, those were also kinda funny sometimes. cant knock the hustle.

it is with a heavy heart i must say that this game is, in fact, a little reddit.

As a kid, I was obssesed with browser games. Miniclip, Newgrounds, Nitrome, Stick Page, etc. One of the ones I loved the most was the Henry Stickmin series, but specially Stealing the Diamond.

Playing it again after all these years makes me happy, not only for nostalgia reasons but because all of these games are as fun, if not even more fun than I remember them being. This collection existing at all puts a smile in my face.

Completing the Mission itself is.. just perfect, it's the best ending this series could possibly get. Whatever you decide it's the truly canon ending to this series, I'm sure it'll be a good one.

If you had even the most passing enjoyment of these games as a kid, I fully recommend this. And hell even if you never played them, they're a still a very good time!