The devil is in-game and in details ...
So, first: I am a Fangirl. I love not only all that Mike Mignola has ever done, but I also have all the Hellboy films in Special Edition and the whole series of BPRD to the latest tape. And the animated series I've seen all of course. be
"Fanboy / Fangirl" must also be the only reason the world to justify buying the games Hellboy the comic. I am a bit reluctant, as this game next-gen to call console game since it is a bit simplistic to say the least, but I will get yet.
A lot of things but were originally unique to the game:
The original synchronization is spoken by the actors from the Hellboy movies. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones are in the process are two other perfectly matching voices: Jürgen Prochnow for Von Klempt and Bruce Campbell (yes, THE Bruce Campbell - again Fangirl Alert) ;. was allowed to speak of Lobster Johnson The game is also in the German original version set to music-has, in cutscenes but subtitles.
The play thus brings to even the Hellboy movie aspects, although it usually consists mainly of elements from the comics and animated series. The whole presentation very reminiscent of the animated series, since everything is more colorful and less graphically than in the comics. The groundbreaking of a fox accompanied in the second level, you know, for example, from the animated series and the fight gorilla, the second invincible (well I will get to yet) Level Boss, Lobster Johnson's history dates back from the fight against Von Klempt.
Ü fan heart beats at all the tone immediately a higher when suddenly on the way through a nondescript level on the ground finds a business card with Lobster Johnson character. And of course it's also really fun Nazis and samurai spirits to bring loppen. But the game has a dark side. A very, very, very dark side!
All times demonic aside - the real devil is in the gameplay. For that is absolute nonsense. The special moves are so terribly simple and repetitive, that's already the second application is to yawn. Not to yawn but for swearing but bring the huge control error. In any case, go I assume that there are errors, because those who developed such nonsense should be careened, publicly hanged and then stoned! The perspective problem is known since Resident Evil first Changes the camera goes, and the steering angle. But with Hellboy works all about 3 times arbitrary, ie, the non-controllable camera can sometimes go in the middle of a long line just like that, and so then changes the control and you do not even notice because of the unilateral level design that you keep running backwards! Because you simply get used, but one is offended.
The already mentioned the difficulty level bosses is not that they are stronger as the game character (stronger than Hellboy? This is ridiculous anyway!) But that the destruction of more of an absolutely arbitrary ; Natural element depends on the course, first you must find yourself. I take three examples:
first The stupid witch
The stupid witch, the level in the first level boss throws with small, evil trolls with exploding zombie heads at you. If no Problem, because the beat up is easier ride a bicycle. However, one notices in the breaks, in which one has nothing to do, very quickly that you do well, the witch must, since otherwise one is stuck at all times. Now comes the problem: The witch is hovering above you immune to firearms. What should we do? I give the solution just now price: you must move into a purely random way that you can separate the zombie heads from the rest of her body and this should kick on the witch. It took me a long long time until I found out. And there was already a bit pissed off from the game because I actually wanted to enjoy have and continue to dip into the world of BPRDs not understand me wrong: I love puzzle elements in Adventure Games. But this has anything to do with puzzles! Why do I say this, I now declare:
second The gorilla
From Klempt personally incited one of his homemade gorillas fight for you. In the beginning, not as a problem. I was pretty proud of it, combined the giant ape with a special move with a Quick Time Event to beat ohmächtig. But everything was not in there. The gorilla wakes up again, and sludgy you to a pulp.
Now it is but so that when you die, you'll gerespawned in the corner and you have to repeatedly press the Y button raise. Unfortunately you can not time the gorilla actually, because he kills you again before you ever got. After three lives all comes from Klempt cut scene again and the fight starts again. All the ammunition you have overdone the previous attempt, is gone. I suggest the gorilla that is unconscious and fire the rest of the few remaining ammunition on him (which is Gesa in Science of Evil about similar sparse t as in older Resident Evil games. In addition, the cartridges are very small amounts of take-away: 40 9mm, 15 shot, etc. I see this as a fangirl, of course, an absolute logic error: the case of the weak people it clear that carry only limited amounts of ammunition Kö .!; But can we talk about Hellboy, damn this must be said that one's not angry at the beginning so, yes, finally you have the right hand of justice - uh .. . where was I?).
some point anyway I lie completely dead in the corner without Muni. What should I do now?
first I am furious kick, the controller in the Xbox, which falls down and scratched this shit bitch game
second I start the game and annoy me anyway this is exactly where again
third I will commit myself because I watch the cutscene to shit 10,000 times must
4th I jump with my character around the room and possibly also try to somehow get out of the situation or at least kill Time.
I do what I do in these situations over and hop in the arena like the gorilla in the hope of somehow come to a magical way to a solution. I vermöble him in between a bit because it's the only thing to do.
suddenly breaks for another knockout blow by Hellboy the ground under the gorilla through and we fall one floor lower.
"This is so stupid," I shout out loud. For I know now whether it is still not at the position of the monkey's body at the time Ohmächtigkeit, at the time I spent in this arena, or just random lay. Of course, I died just back to what should be done without force and ammunition also different. I decided the cut-scene and the 248th Time to put up and then tried the gorilla just hit KO in the same place as before.
And it works! One floor down is the KO point, however, where quite different, so I'll beat the monkey again for half an hour through your house until it collapses a second time. Oh-oh, ground floor! Well now he's got to be tötbar! I'm just stupid no ammunition or weapons. So I try again by Quick Time Event to hit the monkey KO, but the benefits do anything, the animal is sheepishly around only a few seconds of stupid. I become extremely annoyed and start to do what I got used in other games: I just flaming ruin the environment. And I hardly tadaa-struck away all the pillars of a sudden I find pleasurable Klempt upside down and is tackled in a cut scene from your own gorilla in the infinite gorge.
I'm surprised only once. Then I feel relieved and at the same time igendwie totally unsatisfied. Although I am pleased forward to the next level, but not to the next level boss. Also, I wanted the damn gorilla shit but at least personally beat the life and soul from the body - is this too much required? At this time I had accumulated so much anger in me, I would most like a long-range rocket fire at an animal shelter for cats.
From Klempt and his gorillas in another (analog) playable version
third The stupid witch the Second
Long story short, somewhere in Level 4 or 5 are new enemies - Nazi robot. I like to beat it Nazis, really rough. Why are also done very quickly completely. Since the stupid witch comes back with a new variety of small Nervenbälger. Did I mention I hate it when level bosses do not die, just so they can at a later point in the game reinstatement as level bosses? This is so cheap!
Anyway, good is it this time grad nothing, with heads to the witch to throw. The new special ammunition is useless. No ammo does any good and I am stuck in a dead end! The witch can not kill me, like the gorilla, but it is too bad but it's damn immortal! Which is absolutely wrong-headed and strange coincidence is probably the catch?
I have yet do not know, because I cracked at that point the last nerve and I have put away the game very well, so I do not hazardous.
I must mention, however, that it could be that something is not working and what is she at the 55th try once but kills. It was namely the fire canyon, where you had about it. Anyway, I thought the first Hellboy but could not jump over it and always died in the flames (which is totally ridiculous, Hellboy is anung-Un-Rama, the lord of the underworld and therefore completely immune to fire!). I went all the way back to level input - nothing. No other way. I tried wood blocks and coffins down over it to cross it - nothing.
I tried by every possible position to jump over it - nothing. At one point I wanted my brother to show what a goddamn game discs that was, I jump somewhere in the middle, where I so about the first 20 plays and had tried to come over tadaa-Hellboy just jump on the column. I have sworn still for quite a while ...
So, we come to the conclusion: The game play is technically so skewed shit garbage that one is actually more annoying than you enjoy the game, it has yet I love the Hellboy universe! That is so nasty, it's like a biscuit on a house roof and then puts the dog says "Get it, well get it to you but you just stupid animal!". Perhaps only the Xbox version failed completely and the game is really good on the PC ... I hope so for any other Hellboy fan in the world that would otherwise be just as desperate as me.