This is one of those series I experienced as a kid that I assumed was just nostalgia when I grew up. Upon replaying the series plus the new Completing the Mission, I can confidently say that NOPE IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD.
I find it to be very high praise of a visual-novel type game if I manage to like them, considering I don't hold them too highly as representative of the medium. But Henry Stickmin is so insanely funny that it absolutely makes up for the lack of gameplay.
Really the only criticism I can make of the series is that it very quickly became more about seeing the fails than actually succeeding at the objective. But even then, Completing the Mission manages to somewhat circumvent this by playing with expectations both in what does or doesn't work, again, making up the difference by simply being really funny.
I find it to be very high praise of a visual-novel type game if I manage to like them, considering I don't hold them too highly as representative of the medium. But Henry Stickmin is so insanely funny that it absolutely makes up for the lack of gameplay.
Really the only criticism I can make of the series is that it very quickly became more about seeing the fails than actually succeeding at the objective. But even then, Completing the Mission manages to somewhat circumvent this by playing with expectations both in what does or doesn't work, again, making up the difference by simply being really funny.
all im gonna say is play every game and get every fail, the announcement of this collection made me jump in joy with the games being remastered alongside a brand new one being the biggest one, just pure classic newground games with the last one being the best game of the series! it helps that it being the newest it has references to stuff that were popular post-newgrounds! please check it out it's such an amazing collection of games!