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• Honk 3D is a sequel to the Gong Show favorite Honk, and makes a strong effort to follow in it's footsteps, but it falls short unfortunately.

  Liked
  + Multiplayer works without thinking
  + Good set of art assets

  Needs Work
  + Combat Feedback
  + Needs more than just combat interaction

  So Honk 3D really lives in the shadow of the original Honk which was such a singular event that it does taint how Honk 3D is percieved unfortunately. The game worked right away for me and many others which is a huge plus and definitely not a small task. I am imagining that this may have eaten up a lot of the dev time. For what is present in the game, your movement always felt right, that you were moving where you intended, and interacting was the same mostly. Sometimes you would swing instead of eat, but that was about it. A bigger issue was that striking opponents didn't have a lot of weight behind it. The lack of names above the players also was a missed oppourtunity as the growth of meta-game attitudes are pretty huge in this kind of group madness game.

  Seeing the inclusion of different minigames would have been a huge inclusion and really elevated the game from a finicky free-for-all into a really strong party game like experience. Including the original Honk game of "honk x times" while you can barely hear what is going on through the hinks of all the players would have been fun to see in 3D. Games like Simon Says, or Red Light Green Light would have been nice. Players who were defeated having more to do than wait could have been nice. Like ways to goof off, knock people around, or just be dumb would have been welcome.

  Ultimately this is a proper base for what the game really could be, and which I would love to see, but it's just that, the starting point.

  -James Rossi