Harold Halibut Review (PS5)

Harold Halibut Review (PS5)

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There are stories that need plenty of time in order to get ripe enough to debut in front of the audiences. Sometimes the wait time proves to be too long compared to the end result, other times the creativity and flair justify the hype. Harold Halibut needed 10 years before it was presented to us. Let’s see if it was worth the wait! And why did this production need a decade of development? While the story is touching and the characters are detailed, the main reason can be considered to be the stop motion animation technique. Although the end result has an unmistakable feel to it, this technique is seldom used in cinema due to its complexity, and it is even more of a rare occasion to see it in video games. While in a movie you are confined to the limits of a script, in videogames there are plenty of interactivity that the developers need to consider and animate. Harold Halibut - just like the other few productions using this style - has that unquestionably unique atm...

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