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Harold

Harold is certainly enjoyable to look at, and occasionally is fun to play. The high difficulty level and forced practice sections keep it a strictly middle of the road experience though.
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62%Game Brain Score
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grinding
79% User Score Based on 29 reviews
Critic Score 62%Based on 8 reviews

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Harold is a single player platformer game with a comedy theme. It was developed by Moon Spider Studio and was released on February 12, 2015. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

Harold is a singleplayer sidescrolling platformer with an emphasis on the high quality, hand-drawn style of classic animated films. You play as Gabe, the guardian angel responsible for guiding Harold through the multiple paths of each map, constantly saving your human charge from imminent death by manipulating obstacles in different environments. To edge out the other runners and prove your angeli…

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79%
Audience ScoreBased on 29 reviews
gameplay9 positive mentions
grinding2 negative mentions
  • Stunning hand-drawn graphics and smooth, expressive animations reminiscent of classic cartoons.
  • Challenging and engaging gameplay that rewards memorization, timing, and strategic multitasking.
  • Excellent soundtrack with dynamic, uplifting music and strong voice acting that enhance the overall experience.
  • Gameplay can be frustratingly difficult with punishing timing requirements and a steep learning curve.
  • Controls are complex and unintuitive, requiring a gamepad with no keyboard support, which may hinder accessibility.
  • Forced practice modes and repetition before races can feel tedious and disrupt the game flow for some players.
  • gameplay
    28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Gameplay in Harold is characterized by a unique and challenging platform racing experience that requires clever environmental interaction and precise control. While many praise its engaging design, rewarding mechanics, and creative obstacles, some find the difficulty frustrating and the gameplay less enjoyable compared to its impressive visuals. Overall, it offers satisfying gameplay for those who appreciate a tough but fresh challenge.

    • “An outstanding platform racing game with wonderful design and challenging gameplay; I cannot recommend this game enough, especially to those who like a challenge.”
    • “All of this makes for extremely fun and engaging gameplay, with good incentivation and strangely enough a pretty high feeling of reward.”
    • “The gameplay itself is exciting, and you have to cleverly use flicks and drags to get Harold to the finish line.”
    • “Harold is a special case, though, because it has one of the greatest gulfs between visual quality and gameplay quality I’ve ever seen.”
    • “All of this combines to make a big mess of gameplay that took me multiple tries just to pass the first race of a dozen.”
    • “Harold is a beautiful game, but that's not enough to make up for sloppy design and maddeningly difficult gameplay.”
  • music
    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is widely praised for its unique, evolving soundtrack that dynamically responds to gameplay, featuring African melodies, Hawaiian rhythms, and uplifting choir elements. Composed by Olivier Derivière, the score is often described as beautiful, magical, and reminiscent of Disney-style tunes, enhancing the overall vibrant and engaging experience despite some repetitiveness in track variations.

    • “At 14.99, Harold is completely worth it, with hours of entertaining gameplay amazingly accompanied by the game's excellent music composed by the immensely talented Olivier Deriviere.”
    • “Awesome soundtrack – the music during a race escalates depending on what place Harold is in during the race.”
    • “The music is just damn awesome and 'magical'; it reminded me of the awesome music from Lilo & Stitch.”
    • “The soundtrack is somewhat unique, and for some reason it reminds me of The Lion King, which was a bit confusing the first time I heard it.”
    • “The music is discreet at the beginning of the race but gets louder when you increase the speed of Harold.”
    • “All songs are played with African melodies from the bush, Hawaiian rhythms, and some others that are hard to categorize.”
  • graphics
    21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features stunning, hand-drawn graphics with fluid, detailed animations and a charming art style reminiscent of cartoons or anime. Visuals are widely praised for their beauty and large, well-executed locations, creating a warm and engaging atmosphere. While the graphics are a standout element, they sometimes influence gameplay mechanics, blending art with design in a unique but occasionally imprecise way.

    • “The graphics are truly remarkable, featuring animations that rival even TV and film.”
    • “The hand drawn graphics are really high quality, and it looks gorgeous alongside the animations and the music too.”
    • “Graphics in this game is a marvel, hand-drawn locations - very large!”
    • “It’s not uncommon for a middling game to be carried by its graphics.”
    • “The graphics are truly remarkable, featuring animations that rival even TV and film, yet are used to bring to life an ill-conceived system that feels more like an indie experiment than a full offering.”
    • “Harold isn’t really a bad game, but it’s designed to appeal to an incredibly small and specific demographic of gamers.”
  • story
    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is generally described as simple, lighthearted, and fitting well with the game's theme, featuring likable characters and a cheerful, angelic setting. While some praise its charm, voice acting, and presentation, others find it overly simplistic or slightly tedious, lacking depth and challenge. Overall, it provides an enjoyable and appropriate framework for the gameplay without being extraordinary.

    • “The story is also pretty good, simplistic yeah, but good, it fits well in the whole theme of the game.”
    • “The game's presentation is just spot on amazing, with the art, animations, special effects, voice acting, from the beginning to the ending, the story, all of which one would think the developers hired a director from Disney movies.”
    • “But way too complicated for the rewards of the game: cut scene/story.”
    • “Harold is enjoyable enough, but the omnipresent AI, kindergarten story, and the unshakable feeling of being unconquerable ruin the experience.”
    • “Before I get to the gameplay, I'll write what the story is about - the whole game takes place in heaven where young guardian angels in the local gymnasium study and train.”
  • humor
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game’s humor is highlighted through amusing and imaginative character animations, playful interactions between characters, and entertaining visual effects. These elements combine to create a consistently funny and lighthearted experience.

    • “Other than that, the game features funny animations.”
    • “On top of that there are funny and imaginative character animations - and those wonderful particle effects - explosions, crackles, sparks etc!”
    • “The animations are absolutely amusing and make the game quite humorous.”
  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the grinding aspect tedious and frustrating despite appreciating its purpose in balancing gameplay, with some feeling that the game's impressive art is underutilized due to repetitive tasks.

    • “I’m not one of those people though, and for my part I find it frustrating that the breathtaking art is spent on something that’s going to be tedious for almost everyone that tries it.”
    • “Really, it makes sense, and is appreciated, as opposed to failing mid-race over and over, but can get a bit tedious.”
  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers a solid amount of content and includes challenge modes with unique variations, such as completing races with speed boosts without failing, which effectively enhance its replayability.

    • “There's a decent amount of content for you to go through and finish, with a challenge mode for each level that's changed up in a different way where you have to finish the race with speed boost on and not fail once, adding more replayability.”
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Harold is a platformer game with comedy theme.

Harold is available on PC and Windows.

Harold was released on February 12, 2015.

Harold was developed by Moon Spider Studio.

Harold has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.

Harold is a single player game.

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