imagine an old slapstick looney tunes cartoon mixed with a choose-your-own-adventure book.

it's better than it sounds, i promise.

the amount of content this collection has is INSANE and if you love games that are more story-based and humor-based then you absolutely need to play through it. during my first playthrough i was sleep-deprived and yet i still absolutely laughed my ass off. recommended

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 someone who grew up with Henry Stickmin, this was certainly worthy of buying. All the previous Henry Stickmin adventures had a presentation update, and playing them all again makes me feel like a kid. However, easily the best part is the new addition to the collection, Completing the Mission. This is easily the best of the bunch, with very funny Failures and an interesting mechanic of choosing the endings of the Airship and Complex parts in order to determine what pathway you take. The only problem I have is 100% the game (clicking every character just to get info) and amogus. Great game for my Newgrounds childhood.