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I remember my sister and I playing Hugo: House of Horrors back when I was a kid. It took a long time before we beat this game.
The music, especially at the beginning, is well-done and appropriate, considering the title and all that. The plotline is a very typical save-your-girlfriend kind of plot-line. Apparently, the girlfriend, Penelope, is being held as a prisoner in the haunted house, although how or why that happened is never explained. |
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The game features many horror movie figures (such as the Mad Scientist figure). Then again, the game takes place in a haunted house, so that would be expected. The graphics are two dimensional and are made up of pixels. Still, the graphics are nice, considering the time period the game came out.
The game mechanics are an interesting mix of typing and moving. What I mean to say is that the game lets you move your character Hugo around with the arrow keys, and every other action requires you to type in a command such as “open the door” and hit the enter key. |
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 As far as I can tell, the parser is pretty flexible, so you could take the command “open the door” and phrase it as “open door”. If you type in a command that does not work, you will get a message that says to the effect of “Either our hero does not understand what you are trying to say or he does not think it will be useful!” There are also rooms where you will have to move around quickly and carefully – or in some cases, type as fast as you can and hit enter. There is also a room where you will be asked trivia type questions, which some people may not like. Also, there was a point where I was in a room and I couldn’t figure out what to next. After a while, the game asked if I wanted a hint. I said yes and it said something like “The answer is something that you are going to hate!” The game designer clearly has a sense of humour. The puzzles are the type that can get frustrating at times, but then, that is par for the course for a lot of games of this type.
There are two sequels to this game, which are Hugo: Whodunit, and Hugo: Jungle of Doom, which are pretty similar to Hugo: House of Horrors. The games follow patterns started in this game, such as an old man and number 333.
In summation, this game is old in age and fashion by today’s standards, but it is a well-done game, back at the time it came out and even now. If you like the features talked about above, then this is your game. |
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| Reviewer: Abandon5000 |
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