![]() I hate it and Clunky Hero is infested with moments where you have to jump without knowing where you land. A few very annoying game design choices | Blind jumps.There is just a lack of save points or spots that recharge your health. This wasn’t the only time that I was setback a couple of minutes. And the other result was a frustrated gamer, that is now processing that annoying moment in this review article. The result? Rufus dropped down on the spiked floor and he seemingly committed suicide as the jump looked incredibly silly. I had half a bar of health left after facing regular mobs and a boss fight, only to have to redo all of that again because my buckethead hit the ceiling while I was jumping to a platform. Let this please be a lesson for all game developers, ALWAYS allow the player to save after defeating a boss fight. Not enough save points or regain health points | Beating a challenging boss and being forced to fight your way to a save point that’s still 10 minutes away is simply not user-friendly.I started to wonder if this was done on purpose by the developer Chaosmonger Studios but why would you allow players to start to hate your playable character? It fits the anti-hero part of Clunky Hero but I didn’t see much value in it. The only thing that started to happen was that I was hating Clunky Hero’s protagonist, Rufus more and more, there is such arrogance surrounding him. Secondly, I felt that most conversations with NPCs didn’t learn me anything new about the story. I had two reasons for that, first of all, the comedy simply does not deliver and can best be described as out of touch. When I review a game I force myself to read every dialogue or piece of informative collectible but damn… it was difficult not to skip conversations. Woman jokes, balancing dangerously close on a not appropriate line, and predictable poo jokes happen every once in a while. Dialogue | Mostly the dialogue takes way too long with complete nonsense.I give Chaosmonger Studios credit for trying to be original here, despite the ancient old story angle. ![]() It is nice that villagers give Rufus additional quests, most of the time with some nice 4th-wall-breaking dialogue. Later on, in the review, you’ll read more about the dialogue and (failed) comedy approach but one thing that Clunky Hero misses is character building and background story, you know why Rufus is searching for his wife but it lacks concept. The only twist is that Rufus and his wife are two non-typical characters in video games.
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