alright so i figure i may as well, just to see how many of these game overs truly arent up to snuff. ill be starting with Whispy, and working my way from the daycare to the current end of the game, that being the rodeo.
so first up we have Clover, and im just going to include Sam in this one two since theyre virtually the same. Clover is, for lack of a better term, entirely a waste of an enemy. her grab animations and the way she talks to the heros give her a lot of potential in terms of what her game over could be, as well as this bit of lore
. shes set up to be something like a lot of the other enemies in this segment: adopting and babifying the heros. when it comes to her game over, its literally just a cutscene. thats it. she walks you down the street and then it auto resets. completely anticlimactic.
ill skip jessie because in all honesty its not too bad, if not a bit repetitive. i think sam's losing to her is way better tbh.
Oh, marshmallow... you had such potential to be a decent game over, but all we get from losing to her is this
. if there was a followw-up scene or something to elaborate on this i feel it would be so much better. oh well.
im not going to talk about the daisy plush. if you know you know. evil.
everything in the crawl section is lacking, tldr. no actual game overs, its really just there to pad playtime (heh)
I dont know what it is about the trinity one
, but it just feels so lackluster. like, trinity had this huge presence in HHH, where she would be a threat almost everywhere, even having influence over other teachers, and you look at HHP, and just... everything about her is a downgrade tbh. i liked the gray jumpsuit look for her, and something in her design just isnt doing it for me, i dont know.
Theres a number or things wrong with this one, but ill keep it simple: this isnt a game over. its literally just a looping animation with different text. this is by far, the worst game over in the game, simply because of what it fails to accomplish: anything.
You would think this would be one of the better game overs, with the inclusion of both heros, but unfortunately it isnt. its lazy, as its the same game over for both heros, in contrast to other similar game overs (the portal dude from the garden, ill get to him later). that combined with lacking any dialog, this game over, while nice to look at, unfortunately just doesnt hold up to some of the others.
i find it hard to say good things about this guy, especially when it comes to the whispy one. compared sam's
, this one is just kinda meh as hell.
i should hope this one is somewhat self explanitory tbh. like, really really, i hope this one is at least speaking for itself.
thats all the ones (at least for whispy specifically) that i feel are lacking. what do you guys think?