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For Games Ranked 4–1
4.
Mr. Triangle’s Adventure
by
RedMaverickZero
Release Type:
Original Release
Fuzzy Description:
Mr. Triangle is trying to enjoy some peace and quiet after saving the world. But wouldn’t you know it? Trouble comes knocking on his door (literally), and once again he has to show his opponents why they shouldn’t mess with him or his planet.
Average Score:
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
9
Lowest Rating:
2
Achievements
Achievement
Beat Your Vegetables
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure casts vegetables as the enemy, much like early childhood does.
Achievement
Rewriter of Legacies
-Mr. Triangle comes from a checkered past, and his latest game, Mr. Triangle’s Adventure, tries to correct (quite successfully) some of that negative press.
Achievement
The Big Empty
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure has been criticized for its sprawling maps with little to offer in its variation in scenery or interactive objects.
Achievement
Clever Boss Award
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure has the most interesting boss battles of 2014. Defeating them requires as much brains as they do Spacebars.
Achievement
TL;DP
-Or, Too Long; Didn’t Play. Mr. Triangle’s Adventure already boasts 25 hours of gameplay, and it’s still incomplete.
Achievement
Click Here to Donate
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure is one of the first OHR games to offer a special “Donate” button on its title screen, offering its developers support. Have you chosen to donate yet?
Achievement
Beat Your Vegetables
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure casts vegetables as the enemy, much like early childhood does.
Achievement
The Big Empty
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure has been criticized for its sprawling maps with little to offer in its variation in scenery or interactive objects.
Achievement
TL;DP
-Or, Too Long; Didn’t Play. Mr. Triangle’s Adventure already boasts 25 hours of gameplay, and it’s still incomplete.
Achievement
Rewriter of Legacies
-Mr. Triangle comes from a checkered past, and his latest game, Mr. Triangle’s Adventure, tries to correct (quite successfully) some of that negative press.
Achievement
Clever Boss Award
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure has the most interesting boss battles of 2014. Defeating them requires as much brains as they do Spacebars.
Achievement
Click Here to Donate
–Mr. Triangle’s Adventure is one of the first OHR games to offer a special “Donate” button on its title screen, offering its developers support. Have you chosen to donate yet?
Audience Consensus:
Bringing an old controversial character out of the past and into a new kinder image doesn’t seem to fly with some players. Do they want to live in the past? Even though the game is epic in scope, it does feature plenty of large, featureless areas that turns some people off. Clever boss battles make up for the bland random battles, even if it means essentially solving a puzzle first. Animation works well and writing is competent. Still needs proofreading. Donate button an interesting add-on.
3.
Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana
by
FnrrfYgmSchnish
Release Type:
OHR Legend
Fuzzy Description:
El Garbanzo and his wacky crew of misfits finally plunk down for the last leg of their adventure to find out what the government is planning up in those desolate snowfields of Alaska. Could it be that evil’s afoot? Is evil more than afoot? Is it a politician with his or her foot on the pedals of a giant robot?
All the secrets are finally revealed in this complete version of this epic game.
Average Score:
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
10
Lowest Rating:
3
Achievements
Achievement
Storied Ending
-The final version of Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana takes a page from the Legend of Zelda school of endings and provides epilogues for many of its characters at game’s end.
Achievement
Best Explosion
-The final moments of Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana climax with a huge explosion. It’s epic.
Achievement
Cultural Survivor
-Refers partly to Okédoké’s heroes surviving the negative reactions they receive from NPCs and villains during their journey, but also refers to the game’s endurance inside a community that finds it too controversial for enjoyment.
Achievement
One Day of Your Life
-Referring to the amount of time you’ll need to finish Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana.
Achievement
Mega Dungeon
–Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana’s final dungeon is a sprawling puzzle that takes about three hours to fully navigate.
Achievement
Legend
–Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana is the second OHR Legends release in Heart of the OHR history. The first was Vikings of Midgard. To become a Legend, a game has to be rereleased for the Heart of the OHR twice or more.
Achievement
Storied Ending
-The final version of Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana takes a page from the Legend of Zelda school of endings and provides epilogues for many of its characters at game’s end.
Achievement
Cultural Survivor
-Refers partly to Okédoké’s heroes surviving the negative reactions they receive from NPCs and villains during their journey, but also refers to the game’s endurance inside a community that finds it too controversial for enjoyment.
Achievement
Mega Dungeon
–Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana’s final dungeon is a sprawling puzzle that takes about three hours to fully navigate.
Achievement
Best Explosion
-The final moments of Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana climax with a huge explosion. It’s epic.
Achievement
One Day of Your Life
-Referring to the amount of time you’ll need to finish Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana.
Achievement
Legend
–Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana is the second OHR Legends release in Heart of the OHR history. The first was Vikings of Midgard. To become a Legend, a game has to be rereleased for the Heart of the OHR twice or more.
Audience Consensus:
Kudos for finishing an epic game that’s great to look at, but the problems that began with the first two chapters prevail in the later chapters. Mostly criticized for its controversies in racial, drug, and redneck stereotyping, it draws a tough audience, but also criticized for its large maps and near pointless battles, it’s hard to tell the exact reason why so many players are polarized by the experience. Some see it as a sprawling adventure full of interesting puzzles and comical characters. Others see it as an offensive mess that should’ve ended after the first chapter. Which side do you take?
2.
T4R4D1DDL3
by
superawesomeric
Release Type:
Original Release
(Unofficial Entry)
Fuzzy Description:
An atmospheric quest through a trippy world of one-liners in that soul-searching scavenger hunt for 14 varieties of underwear. Or something like that. To describe the intricacies of Taradiddle is to outline life one breath at a time. We should all be so lucky as to fine-tune our perspectives of its heart and speak of its wonders through our tongues of digital bliss.
Average Score:
(Based on 2/3rds Effect)
Raw Score: 7.0
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
9
Lowest Rating:
5
Achievements
Achievement
Existential Nightmare
–T4R4D1DDL3 is a fever dream of a game. Nothing makes sense, and nothing holds your hand, and everything is an exercise in fashion madness until the spider comes and ends it all.
Achievement
Panty Raider
–T4R4D1DDL3’s main source of items and armor comes from women’s fashion. Included in the roster of various tops, pants, etc. is a wide variety of underwear types, many of which you can find in treasure boxes. Not the kind of thing you’d normally expect to find all over an OHR adventure world.
Achievement
Cotton Candy Dream
-The world of T4R4D1DDL3 rivals the colorful and cottony world of Willy Wonka, but instead of candy, we get a wonderful world of underwear. Some of it might be cotton.
Achievement
Vittoria’s Secret
-See “Panty Raider.” Also, the main character is called Vittoria.
Achievement
Winner of the Prestigious WTF Award
–T4R4D1DDL3 is one of the most abstract head-scratchers we’ve had on the OHR in years. No one really knows what to make of it. It’s even hard to decide if it’s brilliant, wacky, or downright awful. It’s the apotheosis of WTF.
Achievement
Rebel Heart
–T4R4D1DDL3 wasn’t initially eligible for the Heart of the OHR. A conversation with TMC convinced me that the game is very much like the kind of stuff people were releasing for the engine back in the late 90’s, and therefore is about as close to the “heart of the OHR” as one can get. So, I caved and allowed it to enter. It still basically breaks the rules.
Achievement
Hugs and Shoes
–T4R4D1DDL3 is so full of nonviolent content that it’s basically a feel-good game, until you realize it’s eating your heart and trapping you in a nightmare.
Achievement
Existential Nightmare
–T4R4D1DDL3 is a fever dream of a game. Nothing makes sense, and nothing holds your hand, and everything is an exercise in fashion madness until the spider comes and ends it all.
Achievement
Cotton Candy Dream
-The world of T4R4D1DDL3 rivals the colorful and cottony world of Willy Wonka, but instead of candy, we get a wonderful world of underwear. Some of it might be cotton.
Achievement
Rebel Heart
–T4R4D1DDL3 wasn’t initially eligible for the Heart of the OHR. A conversation with TMC convinced me that the game is very much like the kind of stuff people were releasing for the engine back in the late 90’s, and therefore is about as close to the “heart of the OHR” as one can get. So, I caved and allowed it to enter. It still basically breaks the rules.
Achievement
Panty Raider
–T4R4D1DDL3’s main source of items and armor comes from women’s fashion. Included in the roster of various tops, pants, etc. is a wide variety of underwear types, many of which you can find in treasure boxes. Not the kind of thing you’d normally expect to find all over an OHR adventure world.
Achievement
Vittoria’s Secret
-See “Panty Raider.” Also, the main character is called Vittoria.
Achievement
Hugs and Shoes
–T4R4D1DDL3 is so full of nonviolent content that it’s basically a feel-good game, until you realize it’s eating your heart and trapping you in a nightmare.
Achievement
Winner of the Prestigious WTF Award
–T4R4D1DDL3 is one of the most abstract head-scratchers we’ve had on the OHR in years. No one really knows what to make of it. It’s even hard to decide if it’s brilliant, wacky, or downright awful. It’s the apotheosis of WTF.
Audience Consensus:
No one is really sure what to think of this game. Is it even a game? Is it just a collection of Twitter comments in some Avant-Garde storytelling crisis? Is it the adventure equivalent to mall shopping? Does it even qualify for the Heart of the OHR? Who the frick knows?
1.
Winged Realm
by
Pheonix
Release Type:
Original Release
Fuzzy Description:
An intense light shines in the distance beyond the harpies’ tower, and shows no sign of abating. Determined to find out what’s causing it, three harpies brave the terrors of their 8-bit tower descent as they head for the outdoors and seek the mysteries surrounding this dreadful light.
Average Score:
Total Voters:
Highest Rating:
9
Lowest Rating:
4
Achievements
Achievement
8-bit Hero
–Winged Realm unflinchingly sticks to an 8-bit graphics style.
Achievement
Battle Fatigue
–Winged Realm is wrought with unescapable battles, is made difficult to keep healing potions, and doesn’t give you much to look at between fights.
Achievement
Who’s Who Award
–Winged Realm’s heroes look similar to each other (in that they’re all 8-bit harpies), and have names that are complicated to track. It’s very difficult to tell any of them apart.
Achievement
Purple Reign
–Winged Realm is full of purple prose and purple graphics.
Achievement
Master of Technicality
–T4R4D1DDL3 should’ve technically won the Heart of the OHR for having the highest average score based on pure votes. But because the new two-thirds rule requires that all games have at least two-thirds the voter representation of the top-voted game (this year, the honor goes to Troll Over with 12 votes), anything below the line must be supplemented with fives to balance out the averages, which can potentially lower a game’s pure score if it’s higher than five, and that’s exactly what happened to T4R4D1DDL3. So, even though its pure score is greater than Winged Realm’s, the rules say that two-thirds takes precedence over lesser voted games, and T4R4D1DDL3’s two-thirds-affected score is lower than Winged Realm’s purely voted score. So Winged Realm wins.
Achievement
Up from Behind
-Until the final votes were cast the night before voting closed, Winged Realm was in fifth place. The last crop of votes shuffled the Top Five enough to put Winged Realm in the lead and Okédoké, the original lead, in third.
Achievement
My Shizuma
–Winged Realm resembles the kind of games OHR user Shizuma is best known for making, including the classic epic Spellshard: Black Crown of Horgoth.
Achievement
8-bit Hero
–Winged Realm unflinchingly sticks to an 8-bit graphics style.
Achievement
Who’s Who Award
–Winged Realm’s heroes look similar to each other (in that they’re all 8-bit harpies), and have names that are complicated to track. It’s very difficult to tell any of them apart.
Achievement
Up from Behind
-Until the final votes were cast the night before voting closed, Winged Realm was in fifth place. The last crop of votes shuffled the Top Five enough to put Winged Realm in the lead and Okédoké, the original lead, in third.
Achievement
Battle Fatigue
–Winged Realm is wrought with unescapable battles, is made difficult to keep healing potions, and doesn’t give you much to look at between fights.
Achievement
Purple Reign
–Winged Realm is full of purple prose and purple graphics.
Achievement
My Shizuma
–Winged Realm resembles the kind of games OHR user Shizuma is best known for making, including the classic epic Spellshard: Black Crown of Horgoth.
Achievement
Master of Technicality
–T4R4D1DDL3 should’ve technically won the Heart of the OHR for having the highest average score based on pure votes. But because the new two-thirds rule requires that all games have at least two-thirds the voter representation of the top-voted game (this year, the honor goes to Troll Over with 12 votes), anything below the line must be supplemented with fives to balance out the averages, which can potentially lower a game’s pure score if it’s higher than five, and that’s exactly what happened to T4R4D1DDL3. So, even though its pure score is greater than Winged Realm’s, the rules say that two-thirds takes precedence over lesser voted games, and T4R4D1DDL3’s two-thirds-affected score is lower than Winged Realm’s purely voted score. So Winged Realm wins.
Audience Consensus:
Difficult, grinding, confusing, purple. It has competent writing and that attractive 8-bit style, but the characters’ names are often hard to follow, as are their sprites, and it’s difficult to root for any one of them as they all somewhat bleed together. Map design is also bewildering, but has the added touch of providing environmental puzzles to keep things from becoming bland. Shops and NPCs also help diversify the environment, as they’re hidden behind doors and are represented as a single picture. Interesting game, if not difficult to track at times. This is the Heart audience’s favorite for the year.
And there you have it, your lineup for the 2014 Heart of the OHR Contest.
Even though this year had a much weaker turnout than previous years (in terms of quality, as evidenced by the scores), kudos still go out to our winner, Pheonix, for coming in from behind during the last cycle of votes to win the contest. Until the last-minute votes came in, his game, Winged Realm, was running in fifth place and Okédoké, our only Legends release this year, was holding the top spot. As you can see, anybody’s vote can alter the landscape of winners, so voting is important. Anyway, good job to those who tried. Also, good job to superawesomeric for making T4R4D1DDL3, the game with the highest pure vote average, which in previous years would’ve won him/her(?) the contest, but not under this year’s rules.
Thanks also to James Paige, Spoonweaver, Fenrir-Lunaris, Mystic, RedMaverickZero, Meatballsub, Willy Elektrix, Ichiro, and Meowskivich for helping with the prizes.
Heart of the OHR 4 begins on March 1st, 2016, and runs until July 31st, 2016, so get your entries started now if you want to make it even better than this year’s crop.
—Pepsi Ranger
