So there’s the vague feeling that it was a missed opportunity. No contiguous rooms this time, but that text is a whole lot longer than it appears. Not a spoiler, but a warning: the Hall of Records is back. Might be a sign some things were cut to meet deadlines or budget needs. Not to mention, there are a few locations that appear to serve no purpose: or at least, I finished the game without having to find them, if it was even possible to reach them at all. Overall, there are less locations and it’s shorter. And while everything in Neverhood seemed to have a reason, several times in Armikrog I found myself thinking “ok, I did this, but what was the point since the puzzle didn’t seem to use it at all?”.
And the puzzles were Myst-like and not overly difficult, but unlike in Neverhood, they reused some of them a bit too often and others were also a bit too straight-forward. The music was peculiar and captivating, but not as ear-wormy as Neverhood.
The story was weird, but not as weird as Neverhood. In many ways, it felt like Neverhood-Lite. This was a long time coming, wasn’t it? So… was it worth it? All these months, all these years of waiting? The answer is a resounding… “kinda”. I finished Armikrog, with a tour de force of roughly 6 hours in two days – which itself has come after a wait of two years and half since the Kickstarter launched, and which itself had to wait for 17 years since I first played the original The Neverhood demo obtained in one of those old PC magazines. I’ve tried to keep this review as clean as possible. Versus Evil ® is a registered trademark of Versus Evil LLC.Here not be spoilers. Rich cast of voiceover talent brings Armikrog’s characters to life, including well-known actors Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Rob Paulsen (Pinky and the Brain) and Michael J.Loveable characters designed by Doug TenNapel creator of the Earthworm Jim and developed by creators of The Neverhood, Ed Schofield and Mike Dietz.
Follow the adventures of space explorer Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak, as they unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds them captive through exploration and puzzle solving!.Follow the adventures of space explorer Tommynaut and his blind alien talking dog Beak-Beak, as they unravel the mysteries of the fortress that holds them captive through exploration and puzzle solving! Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood.
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