We the last saw Harold Halibut at GDC 2018, but people from the German indie studio Slow Bros. they returned with another fascinating preview of this unique game.
“Harold Halibut we started life as a dinner conversation about our love for stop-motion and story games, ”the developers explain. “It wasn’t long before we started building sets of dolls and puppets in our bedrooms. Welded metal, textiles sewn on small wooden planks and walnut-sized clay veneers plunge the player into Harold’s tactile world. ”
The result, as you can see above, is a project that is somewhere between Double Fine Broken Age and a stop-motion movie like Wes Anderson Dog Island. And while Kotaku said senior reporter Nathan Grayson Harold Halibut was “like a simplified approach to the standard point-and-click adventure with a worryingly awkward dialogue” during his GDC 2018 demo, I’m absolutely ready to immerse myself in this beautiful, handmade game, no matter how play.
Harold Halibut “Coming soon” on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.