When I played this, the memories of the past twelve years I've spent with this series flooded back the instant I clicked the "play" button on Breaking The Bank. This is probably the ultimate feel good game when you just want to sit back and enjoy a funny stick creature going through several instances of pain and success. The overarching story pieces presented in Completing The Mission really make it feel like the choices you made in the previous games had mattered. (unless you're a fail-seeker like me and got all the endings before proceeding)

If you want a silly choose your own adventure game, this is the first game I'd show you. If you're looking for a deep story, I'd show you other games, but slide this across the table, and tell you not to go for every ending, to stick with what you have before you go back for them all. I've laughed out loud more times than I can count with this series, and Puffballs United gave Henry the perfect sendoff he needed.

I'll never forget all the months I'd spend waiting for the next chapter, and it's nice to know now that Henry will always be with me.

Not much to say about this game only that it literally has no flaws, it is a quirky, fun, rich and really well though-out collection of the original Henry Stickmin Flash games made with so much love from the developers, coupled in with a new original and extensive "choose-your-ending" chapter. It even has collectibles now!

It's seriously so much fun as a little point and click you can play from time to time, not so much replay value cuz of that but if you're going for the 100% overall you're gonna have your fill trying to get all the fails. It is worth the money.

I was very much hoping that would be one of those old internet things that'd still 100% work for me today like Homestar Runner, but here's the thing... just about all of this fucking reeks of Newgrounds. Thankfully this completely avoids the edgelord aspect of that site, but most of the jokes here are centered around references and memes that the site's demographic are already familiar with. And, well, I dunno, this is just 100% a me thing but a lot of this "oh hey here's a reference to a game you know" humor doesn't really work for me personally these days, though it's all thankfully harmless (well, aside from those goddamn "firing my laser" jokes that popped up in a few episodes. The sooner more people realize that old meme is heavily rooted in blackface thanks to its 4chan origins and abandon it the better). Thankfully it somewhat fares better in the new game Completing the Mission (especially the walkthrough joke which I'll admit I let run for like six minutes before realizing that it wasn't just a heavily extended gag), though it still doesn't always hit. It's just not entirely my style of humor these days, though FWIW when it comes to revisiting things I liked at the age of 12 I'll absolutely take going back to this sort of thing over like, I dunno, the Nostalgia Critic or Egoraptor's shit or whatever

Basically what I'm trying to say here is that Charles is a very good boy who deserved a far better game than this.

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!