Other than those instances, unfortunately, a lot of the FMV clips didn’t add much to my overall enjoyment of the game. I did crack a smile when one of the old puppets would constantly get lost and confused and at a funny bonus clip of a puppet who is educating on healthy eating but is eating bricks. For me personally, most of the humor didn’t land. The game employs a lot of clips and the game has its own sense of humor. Instead, it focuses more on the brief interactions with the puppet cast members, which is fine, but I didn’t find any of them to be as interesting as the world itself. Howdy, Jacob! would have made for a more intriguing, interesting experience if it focused more on expanding its universe. There is some of it when you read item descriptions, but it feels more like random facts than a main narrative focus. I wish the game did more of this world-building throughout the game to expand the fiction. It mentions some wild stuff, like a powerful artificial intelligence, the ill-fated demise of past cast members, and the show being used as propaganda. When you first start the game, you’re greeted with a text crawl of the world in which the show takes place. I wish I could learn more about the world and the Laughsail show itself. The dystopian world the game is set in is quite interesting. Puppets but with Adult Themes…Has That Been Done Yet? And what’s great about these levels is that they do some subtle, yet sparse world-building. Levels are wildly different from one another, which helped make the object-hunting more interesting. Other levels had me going to a broccoli farm or a puppet’s spell-casting chamber. For example, I had to find objects in a place that housed the previous Jacob’s locker. It’s your job to find the hidden objects with the help of the puppet cast members of the show.Įach level comes complete with an introduction from the wacky cast members, and each space is connected to the show in some way. In order to do so, you need to undergo a hidden object training course to get hired. You play as someone who is going to take over the role of Jacob on the fictional Laughsail television show. Howdy, Jacob! by SeedBolt Studios, starts off really interesting from the get-go.
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