Heroes Rise: The Hero Project

Literal trash. Get railroaded into dumb choices.

[h1]JUST NOT GOOD[/h1] Heroes Rise: The Hero Project is one of those games where I didn't have high expectations after the first game, but I still somehow ended up disappointed. I actually prefer the plot idea here to the one from The Prodigy - a reality show for superheroes is simply much more interesting than the generic "zero to hero" story. There are also some other cool ideas sprinkled throughout the story, but that's where the good stuff ends. The game is simply not good on a technical level. The writing feels like a downgrade (although it's still bearable), but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pacing and inconsequential choices were just unforgivable. You can have the best ideas in the world, but they won't matter if you don't know how to execute them. Unfortunately, [b]I can't recommend it[/b]. The Hero Project is basically fanfic-level interactive fiction, and I'm not even talking about high-quality fanfics. There are some good moments, but they're too few and far between. [b]Story[/b] The story is fairly simple. The government wants to create its own team of the best heroes, and to find the best of the best, they greenlit The Hero Project, a reality show intended to conduct a nationwide sea…

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I tried to give this game the benefit of the doubt, but I was about three hours in and just couldn't do it anymore. The first game was bad enough, but it had enough going for it that I was willing to move on to the next game. This one just killed the series for me. The choices often don't seem to matter. The contest doesn't really explain how it works, how your score is determined, or whether you can actually do anything meaningful to change it. Things develop in completely nonsensical and illogical ways. If you had a relationship in the last game, you still have it in this one, but you barely get to spend any time with that person, and then they can just break up with you over one choice. You're also introduced to someone new and told that your character has all these incredibly strong feelings for them because of one thing that happened when your character was much younger. But the worst part—the thing that finally killed it for me—was when it suddenly stopped being a superhero game about superhero stuff. Even as ridiculous as the superhero reality-show premise is, I was willing to go with it. Then, completely out of nowhere, I'm suddenly reading five-plus pages of heavy…

I dont like this game despite its good writing for two reasons: 1. It takes place in a trashy reality-show and thats exactly what happens. Fights, manifactured tension, nosensical threads and reactions from npcs because of your choices. It also leads to a much more streamlined game that limits your ability to choose. 2. Destroying the cartasis from the end of the last game, making a majority of the villians untouchable and going the "everyone dumps on the protagonist" route moves this towards a sadist show. Unless you play as the pollyanna, you wount have a good time.

After having 'played' through the Heroes Rise series several times over, I can only describe it, and this installment, as painfully mediocre. Sergi's writing might be adequate for a high-school audience, but if you've matured past that stage it leaves much to be desired.