There are many video games out there that are easy to understand and talk about but very few which give a hard time figuring out what’s going on. Where The Bees Make Honey is one of them and you’ll find out why in our review.
Are Bees Even In The Game?
The whole story of this game focuses on a young woman, it opens up on a telesales office in which our protagonist is all alone working while feeling really low. While complaining about the events of her life she takes a moment to reflect on her childhood. Times that had no worries and stress.
During all of this, she gets a call from her boss and is ordered to gather a few items, this puts you in gameplay where you collect things like notepad, stapler, and a calculator. All of a sudden the office’s power goes out and now you have to turn on the generator (we lost count on how many times we have done this in games)
From here you are taken into a dreamscape and this is where it all beings.
There’s Stuff Happening.
The game starts out in the first-person mode and this isn’t the only way you’ll be playing this game, there are 2.5d side-scrolling levels, you become an RC Monster Truck with poor gameplay, a rabbit on plain wide land and even top-down puzzle-ish phases. There is a lot of variety but none of it goes in favor of making this a great game.
This has been presented as a puzzle game but the difficulty is almost as if the developers are joking with you, there isn’t even a slight challenge to all the different levels you play. Yeah going through many different things from collecting honeycombs to driving an RC Monster Truck and saving yourself from zombies sounds fun but they don’t have any depth and meaning to em.
How Does It Look?
The game does look good especially according to the approach of this whole theme and setting. it isn’t one of those super lookers that have crips and sharp attention to detail but it does have a pleasant build, an okay texture, and soft calming colors.
Freeze My Friend.
Performance as always is very important in videogames because it can ruin the greatest gameplays and stories all within second and unluckily here we have quite the same situation. It has issues of frame drops and lags, the game hiccups at you at some moments too and this was tested in both first playthrough and replay aswell.
Verdict
Where The Bees Make Honey is a game that struggles to identify is self, once you finish the extremly short game you fail to understand whhat was all for, the many different levels and phases to play hold no meaning and are easier than a walk in the park. it fails to hold ground own it’s genere as we fnd it to be the total opposite of a core puzzle game. With perfomance issues present at this point, this brilliant little game is suffering and it could be a lot better.
Final Score: 7/10
