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Surreal claymation RPG Hylics 2 looks amazing. Alice O'Connor. 3 years ago. 41 Mason Lindroth's 2015 RPG Hylics is a game I want people to see. I want you to warm your eyes with its surreal and meaty clay-ish world, fill you ears with its warbling guitar, tingle your brain with its frozen burritos and ablative holopleather, move your hands in sync with the spellcasting gestures,. Approach our homunculus. Daniel 'MontyOnTheRun' Monteiro. Dungeons of Noudar 3D.

A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

Hylics 2 is a recreational program with a unique graphic style and droll scenario.

The tyrant Gibby’s minions seek to reconstitute their long-presumed-annihilated master. It’s up to our crescent headed protagonist Wayne to assemble a crew and put a stop to that sort of thing.

Features:

-A mesmerizing visual style incorporating stop-motion animation, 3D-scanned clay models, and pixel art.

-Engage in turn-based RPG combat against over 25 adversaries, each with unique capabilities and behaviors.

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-Gather Wayne's crew and explore 3D environments. Use air-dashing, rolling, and gliding to find hidden treasures or evade enemies. Consult the world's inhabitants for hints, lore, and musings.

-Find TVs throughout the world to learn exciting new battle abilities like Poromer Bleb and Soul Crisper.

-Optional side content including a diverting platformer minigame and a first-person-view dungeon-crawler.

-The followup to 2015's Hylics. Hylics 2 uses motifs from its predecessor, but players unfamiliar with Hylics may still fully enjoy Hylics 2.

Requirements
- 8GB of RAM is required.
- 4GB HD space.
-Processor capable of 2 Ghz or better.
-Minimum Resolution 1280x720. 16:9 aspect ratio needed for fullscreen.

-Tested in Windows 7, 10, OS X Mojave, and OS X High Sierra.

-Not currently compatible with OS X Catalina, because I do not have an Apple Developer ID.
-Please note: Steam keys for Hylics 2 are available here only to those who purchased it during the beta period.
-Support is available via..
-the semi-official Hylics Discord, at https://discord.com/invite/vBgbSxt
-The Hylics 2 Steam forum, at
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1286710/discussions/2/

Purchase

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Development log

• Hylics 2 v36b Changelog
  Aug 26, 2020
• Hylics 2, v34 Changelog
  Jul 20, 2020
• Hylics 2, v32 Changelog
  Jul 02, 2020
• Hylics 2 v30 Changelog
  Jun 25, 2020

A Note on Hylics

On Hylics (Mason Lindroth, 2015), Robert Yang wrote: “There are a lot of things to like about Hylics. The randomly generated dialog text both exposes the emptiness of most RPG NPC dialog while simultaneously showing how much better and more poetic it can be.”

As I played through Hylics I realised it exposed pretty much the whole JRPG format.

Hylics is a JRPG which defies any sort of easy description (Yang would have my bacon if I came out and called it “surreal”, so imagine I’ve pulled you into a dark alley and whispered the word “weird” in secret) but is packed with beautiful stop-motion animation.

But Hylics is a pretty confusing experience. Early in the game, you might be expecting some guidance about what your character, Wayne, is supposed to be doing. Don’t hold your breath waiting for an info-dump. Hylics doesn’t do info-dumps. In fact, the game never orders you about and if I recall correctly you only get sent once on an explicit fetch quest.

In one sense, it’s clever. A JRPG inevitably becomes about exploration, obtaining access to areas which are initially walled off. Imagine no one told you to go find the red key to open the red door: you’d still want to find the red key. Hylics knows this, choosing never to explain why Wayne would want to go anywhere, but simply offers barriers - such as the harbour gate - that the player desires to bypass. In the 1978 book The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Bernard Suits characterised games as “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles” and what defines a player in most cases is this urge to seek such unnecessary challenges. The developer just needs to get out of the way - players are happy to lay siege to something that opposes them.

Because Hylics is clever like this, it lampoons JRPG dialogue. Most dialogue is procedurally-generated gibberish but the accompanying sound indicates when the conversation is important to pay attention to or not. As Yang notes, it reflects the banality of most game dialogue. The average JRPG developer will scatter NPCs about to make the world seem alive, offering terrible conversation like “Hi! Look at this field, it’s so green!” While Hylics goes meta in this respect, it turns NPCs into an exercise in gaming frustration, as if we are trying to find the right NPC hotspot to negotiate with.

Although Hylics has a health and magic system, it uses freaky names to make it difficult to form permanent associations. In your inventory, “frozen burrito” can be used as a projectile, while “warm burrito” is used to revive a character from death. “Vegetable” will recover lost “flesh” and “juice box” will increase “will”. It gets even more convoluted when you approach Hylics’ enchantments such as “mystic meat” and “panorama”. The player will learn some of these names but I often chose the wrong item or spell because I forgot to check the small print which explains what it does. I had to keep checking the small print, again and again.

You might expect Hylics to lampoon JRPG combat as well, but Lindroth takes it deadly seriously. While the persistent player will figure out Hylics only cares about one character stat (Mightiness) becoming adept at wielding your party’s tools is essential as the fights become increasingly fraught. It’s also mean in some ways, where a little experimentation can result in instant death, but you can save wherever you want.

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It’s not the only JRPG to mash up the labels to leave players floundering. For example, in Polymorphous Perversity (Nicolau Chaud, 2012) the RPG Maker combat model is utilised to represent sexual encounters. I’m also reminded of Space Funeral (The Catamites, 2010).

But the more I played, the more I saw through the graphics to the numbers and structures of the technical game underneath. You might suspect that Hylics is making the point that much of the visual and narrative baggage that comes with a JRPG can be completely dispensed with, but it’s actually the reverse. As the average JRPG ruleset is so familiar and staid, the only stuff worth a damn is what it looks like, what it sounds like and, if you’re lucky, what it means.

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I’m not sure I can say I enjoyed Hylics, but I was glad to have played it.

How to get Hylics:itch.io,Steam.

Further Reading:Chris Priestman on Hylics (Kill Screen)

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