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Heaven's Hope

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77%Game Brain Score
story, graphics
gameplay, grinding
77% User Score Based on 78 reviews

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Heaven's Hope is a single player action game. It was developed by Mosaic Mask Studio and was released on February 25, 2016. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

"Heaven's Hope" is a single-player adventure game with an interesting plot, phenomenal graphics, and good music. Players help the stranded angel Talorel navigate the 19th century town of Heaven's Hope, using his angel abilities and the help of new friends to find his way back to Heaven. With its charming and crazy world, the game includes plenty of humor and quirky characters, like a near-death experienced mouse, to keep players engaged despite some grinding gameplay.

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77%
Audience ScoreBased on 78 reviews
story20 positive mentions
gameplay3 negative mentions
  • Beautiful hand-drawn artwork and engaging character designs enhance the visual experience.
  • The game features a unique story with interesting puzzles that strike a balance between challenge and solvability.
  • The inclusion of a fast travel map and a hint system adds convenience to the gameplay.
  • The voice acting, particularly for the protagonist, is often criticized as awkward and stilted.
  • Many players found the dialogue to be overly long and repetitive, detracting from the overall experience.
  • Some puzzles are considered nonsensical or tedious, leading to frustration and reliance on walkthroughs.
  • story
    34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story of the game is generally praised for its uniqueness and engaging nature, with many players appreciating its beautiful art style and intriguing plot. While some found the reliance on trigger events for story progression to be a drawback, the overall narrative remains entertaining and well-paced, wrapping up satisfactorily within a reasonable playtime. However, a few players noted that the dialogue could be stilted and some puzzles felt disconnected from the story.

    • “A great game with a beautiful and unique story.”
    • “The game doesn't overstay its welcome and the story is quite engaging throughout.”
    • “The experience of Heaven's Hope starts out very promising; the art style and the uncommon plot immediately catch your attention.”
    • “So you start revisiting everywhere and everyone and you realize that the game relies upon trigger events as the solution to the story progression problem, something I didn't particularly enjoy.”
    • “In every adventure game, there is this specific point where you start to lose interest in the middle of the story.”
    • “While the dialogue can be a bit stilted in the English version, the story is different enough in concept to entertain.”
  • graphics
    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews, with some praising the colorful and detailed hand-drawn artwork and character models, while others criticize the grotesque proportions and lack of impressive visuals. Overall, the art style is appreciated for its charm, but it does not reach awe-inspiring levels, leaving some players wanting more.

    • “+ gorgeous looking, colorful and detailed hand drawn background artwork and character models”
    • “+ beautiful artwork”
    • “I enjoyed the art style and I found all the characters delightful.”
    • “The artwork is grotesquely misproportioned.”
    • “Graphics - pretty decent, not awe-inspiring, but certainly not eye-gougingly bad either.”
    • “The experience of Heaven's Hope starts out very promising, art style and the uncommon plot immediately catch your attention.”
  • humor
    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is described as a mix of subtle and deadpan styles, appealing to those who enjoy clever dialogue and understated jokes, particularly in moments like the library books and the scarecrow. However, some players found the humor ineffective, citing issues with timing and delivery from voice actors. Overall, opinions are divided, with some praising its charm and others feeling it falls flat.

    • “In my opinion, it's a combination of kind horror, cuteness, and a humorous comic book.”
    • “Voice dialog is smart and a lot of the times funny.”
    • “The humor is subtle - if you like deadpan humor you'll have fun with it, but if you prefer zany/outrageous it may not be to your taste.”
    • “It's not funny.”
    • “It's not funny.”
    • “It's not funny.”
  • gameplay
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay of Heaven's Hope is characterized as a standard point-and-click adventure with some unique elements, but it ultimately fails to elevate the experience beyond average. Players often encounter illogical puzzle solutions that require excessive guesswork and reliance on walkthroughs, despite the presence of a hint system that is frequently unhelpful. While the game features appealing animations and a humorous tone, the overall gameplay experience is marred by frustrating design choices.

    • “Heaven's Hope has everything required for a good adventure game: nice animations & backgrounds, constant attempt at humor, slow-paced gameplay, a good number of puzzles with solutions that make no sense, and lots of guesswork & trial & error.”
    • “Gameplay: too many outer-space, galaxy-brain point and click game solutions (many solutions do make sense, but far too many will have you scrambling for a walkthrough and yelling, 'this??!?! this is the bloody solution?!?!')”
    • “There is a hint system in the game, but in my gameplay, the advice given was rarely relevant to what I needed to move forward.”
    • “Gameplay - decent... bog-standard point and click adventure stuff with a few added wrinkles (the mouse, the homunculus), none of which serve to raise the game above the hopelessly average.”
  • music
    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is widely praised for its simplicity and beauty, with many reviewers noting its fitting tone reminiscent of Danny Elfman's style. Overall, it enhances the game's atmosphere and complements its engaging story and graphics.

    • “Simple, but beautiful music in this game.”
    • “+ Danny Elfman style great background music fits the tone of the game very well.”
    • “+ Wonderful music.”
  • grinding
    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be excessively tedious and repetitive, particularly due to the frustrating dialogue mechanics. Many express disappointment over the time spent on what feels like unnecessary grinding, with some wishing they had discovered quicker ways to skip dialogue earlier in their playthrough. Overall, the experience is described as more boring than challenging.

    • “Pro tip (that I wish I had figured out prior to 5 hours in or so...): after mashing the space bar, the enter key, the left mouse button, the escape key, etc. time and time again trying to escape the tedious, repetitious, redundant effluvia of the game's dialogue, I eventually realized that a right mouse button click will (usually, but not always) allow you to skip dialogue.”
    • “Really bummed that I spent money on this... tedious and boring.”
    • “This game is not so much hard as it is simply tedious.”
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Heaven's Hope is a action game.

Heaven's Hope is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

Heaven's Hope was released on February 25, 2016.

Heaven's Hope was developed by Mosaic Mask Studio.

Heaven's Hope has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.

Heaven's Hope is a single player game.

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