Crowchild will finish HTH2 when he completes that god damn Rio DVD animation that he started 11 years ago! Remember that shit? He took preorders and the fan base was all hyped and then he cancelled it about 50% of the way in. I think he blamed graphical issues and "not looking good enough to release". Too many people complained so he issued refunds and nothing was said of it again really.
Until I found his journal entry on Furafinity.
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His last post was 4 years ago and he said he was still working on it. Looks like most people have forgotten about it. Wouldn't surprise me. It's a long time for internet land. What's laughable is that the movie was supposed to be close to a full hour of animation? He has hard enough time getting out 2 minutes worth of animation! I like how he says "he will never take pre orders again!" in that tone like "How dare people demand something they paid for and then make me return their money when I couldn't promise the release date!"
I first came across the first game and the 2nd game around 2004/2006ish IIRC and I thought it was pretty good at the time. Back in the "early years" there was the "infamous fire" that destroyed all his work and he had to rebuild the game from the ground up. I think he actually played the fire in the apartment story twice. First when the original game got wrecked and then a few years later during HTH2's run. HTH2 started out well enough but he kept rebooting the fucking thing and changing the world and map layout and going through 2/3 model designs for the characters.
The game was notoriously laggy when you ran it from the main site and had a nasty habit of freezing up when you left an area for a new area. Each new screen had to load and if the game crashed you had to start over because the save function was usually a load of ass!
From what I have been told by paying players. Crowchild sits behind a brick wall of militant mods who delete all negative comments and suggestions from the paying customers. I more or less gave up on this guy 5 years ago.
Edit: I tried two versions of the game uploaded earlier in the thread and holy crap! Couldn't get the game to run at high graphics setting, had to set it to medium and then the controls are awkward as all hell! First try I fell off the dock and got stuck in the water until the game crashed from trying to load the water effects. 2nd try I talked to the one girl who works for the visitors center and tried talking to the two girls further up the path but couldn't and then the game crashed again.
The maps don't work. As bad as the game was at least you could just go to the map, pick a location then use the arrows on the ground like a traditional point and click game to move around! This bull shit with using the mouse AND keyboard to move around is terrible! Crowchild is trying too hard to make his game into something that you would play on a console! I thought this was point and click porn! NOT Playstation/Xbox shit!
So kudo's to Crowchild, he actually made the game WORSE than it already was! All things considered, just go to pornhub and download the compilations that people have put together as a way of sticking it to Crow and his shady business!