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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure - Out on Steam and GOG

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Thank you Mr Underhill! I’ve been wanting to play this.

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You’re very welcome Smile Post updated.

     

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Thank you for the key! I got the second code.
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Huge thank you from me too! Got the third code Smile

     
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I’ve got the fourth code!

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Nice! One remaining!😁

     

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Got the last one!

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And we’re done! Thanks all for participating, enjoy the game, and thanks again AdventureGamers community for all the support!

     

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You can hear me rattle on about Gibbous and adventure games in general in the video below; apologies for the crappy audio, my gain was way too high and I hadn’t realized it. Whoops!

 

     
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Hey adventurers, if you like gaming on the Switch, the Gibbous page just went up, you can wishlist the game. It’s coming October 28th, just in time for Hall🎃ween.

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/gibbous-a-cthulhu-adventure-switch/

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Jdawg445 - 05 August 2021 08:22 AM

After the disaster of trying to play through the buggy mess that was gibbious. I will pass on this, good luck though.

That’s very surprising to read, what were you playing on? We are at 90% positive reviews overall and 100% in the past 30 days on Steam. We monitor every single bug report and have addressed everything. There were very few bugs at launch, and they have all been squashed. Can you explain what those bugs were?

     
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Mr Underhill - 05 August 2021 08:49 AM
Jdawg445 - 05 August 2021 08:22 AM

After the disaster of trying to play through the buggy mess that was gibbious. I will pass on this, good luck though.

That’s very surprising to read, what were you playing on? We are at 90% positive reviews overall and 100% in the past 30 days on Steam. We monitor every single bug report and have addressed everything. There were very few bugs at launch, and they have all been squashed. Can you explain what those bugs were?

Sure can, this is from a review i wrote on here.

Yeah this game is a buggy mess here’s what I found so far… characters constantly turning in a circle because the pathing is so bad after you click on an object, the character would walk there and spin in circles. the cursor not selecting what you actually selected, but something different. An example of this would be the attic in Paris with the pentagram puzzle, the cursor would not select what I told it to select and I had to restart that puzzle from an earlier save 10 times to get past it. the cutscenes not working at all, they would stutter and skip, so I had to go to YouTube to actually watch them.

I’m in the last chapter now and like I said the graphics are gorgeous, voice acting is good, the story is halfway decent but written sort of poorly with plot holes. But then again most games that are centered around Cthulhu are poorly written. The puzzle design is so simple that it is basically a walking simulator besides two puzzles that ramp up the difficulty out of nowhere. one of the 2 puzzle is halfway decent and well put together, while the other that I mentioned is so poorly hinted at what to do that it is near impossible to beat without a walkthrough at least to me, plus was a buggy mess. Heck even after I looked at the solution, it still didn’t make a lot of sense to me according to the hints that the developers gave in game.

Like I said there are parts of it that I absolutely love and they’re other parts that are just so amateurish that it’s crazy, that gibbous was released in this state.

If the game worked perfectly I probably would give it a 7 1/2 to an eight out of ten but as it is, I couldn’t give it more than a four to 5 out of ten, but I’m going to complete it tomorrow.

For the record I did beat the game and hated the ending and a lot of the meta humor didnt work for me and the fact that you would have the detective walk around the entire game without shoes on as some kind of strange joke, just didnt do it for me. There is obviously a lot of talent there all you have to do is look at the graphics and background art is beautifully animated but as a complete product it was a total misfire at least to me.

     
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Jdawg445 - 05 August 2021 09:18 AM

characters constantly turning in a circle because the pathing is so bad after you click on an object, the character would walk there and spin in circles. the cursor not selecting what you actually selected, but something different. An example of this would be the attic in Paris with the pentagram puzzle, the cursor would not select what I told it to select and I had to restart that puzzle from an earlier save 10 times to get past it. the cutscenes not working at all, they would stutter and skip, so I had to go to YouTube to actually watch them.

I think we have very different definitions for what “buggy” means. Gibbous was made with Adventure Creator, which comes with its default pathing. Everything that you are describing = how Adventure Creator games work. Here’s a list of games that use AC. Unless they have done fancy custom work (most have not, I know this ‘cause I’ve discussed with some of the devs), pathing works the same for all of them. Upwards of 50,000 people have played the game without complaining about pathing issues. Those are not bugs.

Gibbous is a 2D game that is intense on resources. If cutscenes don’t work for you, or stutter, that’s most likely because your hardware isn’t up to the requirements. It’s a good idea to check those out before making any purchase.

Story and ending are subjective things. You may not like them, and that’s fine. Happens to all of us as gamers.

Had Gibbous had serious bugs it would be reflected in the thousands of user reviews. Thanks for taking the time to give us feedback. We always read all our reviews and keep what players say in mind for our next game.

     

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