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Harold Halibut review - sub-aquatic sci-fi adventure is a little too prog-rock
Eurogamer's review of Harold Halibut, a visually arresting, warm-hearted tale of a gofer searching for his purpose that flounders amongst endless fet
A nice, elderly postman called Buddy likes going for his little jogs around the arcade district, a little row of shops and restaurants that exists, under the green alien sea, as a slice of life frozen in time and set to pleasantly sleepy elevator music. Instead: more discoveries, more seeds of mystery sewn or more narrative threads to untangle, which delay the story's conclusion but don't really enhance it (there's a lot of excess plot here, which takes far too much time to resolve, at about a dozen hours or so, for what is effectively as complex a situation as Chicken Run) and more languid trotting back and forth through the same handful of environments. An encounter with an alien species (not a spoiler, don't worry) and a trip to their special cave, set up with strange musical installations and food vendors like a particularly hippie exhibition at the Southbank, take too long, lack much purpose, and fail to offer too much to the conversation beyond a faintly philosophical shrug.
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