And trust me, you’ll often want to skip it entirely. In Bee Simulator, you’re forced to be patient skipping a line to scan it will skip that part of the conversation entirely. In most games, the “done thing” is to reveal all the text of a dialog box if it’s being slowly revealed. This is coupled with an even more annoying issue. "Bee vision" helps you track down different types of pollen.
You’ll find sentences constantly being repeated on fetch quests (“Thanks, but we still need more!” will be burned into your ears), and if you’ve had the gall to do your job and collect enough pollen for the hive, your character will loudly remind themselves repeatedly that they need to return to drop it off. To her credit, if it is only one person, it’s an incredible undertaking–but it can grate quickly in tandem with the lines she’s tasked with reading. Perhaps the most frustrating element of Bee Simulator is the dialog, which appears to have been recorded by one woman alone. Let’s hope none of them play this then stay awake all night, worried their parents might just leave home and force them into foster care, where they’ll rely on meagre handouts from passing strangers. Soon after in a follow-up mission, she asks you, a bee, to pick up nuts for her starving brood. Luckily, this neurotic and frankly untrustworthy squirrel offers to take care of Chicco. After speaking to several nearby squirrels, you soon learn that his mother “skipped town,” leaving her newborn behind. The worst of these comes early when meeting Chicco, a crying baby squirrel, who can’t find his mom. The story mode is predictable, but charming enough for younger players. A lot of this is down to the weird, humor-oriented dialog that often falls flat occasionally, a story idea is so beyond the pale that it makes you question how the hell it even made it into the game. While the core, predictable “hive under threat” storyline is quite cute, some elements and side missions feel lazy, even for kids’ writing. Sharp turns can be done with ease–probably the right decision, given you’re controlling a bee–but you almost always overcompensate.īee Simulator’s developers have also fundamentally misunderstood upside-down controls, too once you find yourself in this position, left and right are reversed and the camera goes a bit wild, so you find yourself guessing your way back to the right way up. While the controls are serviceable for the most part, they’re also horrifically twitchy, especially in those aforementioned races. Strafe, on the left stick, is so under-responsive that it may as well not exist. Out of controlīee Simulator’s control scheme combines entry-level flight sim with FPS movement: lateral movement on the left stick and directional turning on the right ascend and descend are on the shoulder buttons, which you’ll use about five times maximum. Where the game gets tough is when 3D movement is required, and it’s all because of unbalanced controls. Dances are cute and part of how bees work in real life, but it’s difficult to see any challenge in them.įights are repetitive and unchallenging. Fights can vary in difficulty but you’re hard-pushed to lose them, especially when the input patterns can be identical. The game doesn’t make it obvious that you need to use the top part of the HUD to discover these, but once you get the hang of it, it’s straightforward. Standard missions: Here, you’ll find yourself helping other bees, animals and so on to further the overall storyline.Sting: A straightforward bully-stinging escapade (which, like me, you may soon eschew in favor of solely targeting children and dancing adults) and.
Dance: A Simon Says-like directional game, where you mimic another bee to get directions to a target.Fight: A quick-time event-style input battle, usually against wasps, some of which are inexplicably French but will always, uniformly, be nasty pieces of work.It’s one for parents to complete on behalf of their kids, for sure Race: Your classic “fly through hoops to beat a rival” mode, often hampered by cheating AI, poorly-placed power-ups, evil corners and surprisingly difficult criteria.Collect: Flying through hoops to collect pollen from flowers, which are also grouped into different types of rarity which you identify with your Bee Vision.
"Honey Park" - serves as the game's setting.
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