Horror Bar, the largest chain of drinking establishments, is looking for a late night bartender/barlady with cadaveric smell tolerance. From us: a comfortably organized workspace and the possibility of additional earnings. From you: a desire to learn on your own and a tolerant attitude towards bugs. Having a VR headset is a must.
Great Horror Bar game online from the studio Friv2Online. Very exciting, but it is absolutely impossible to play it. More than a year has passed since its release on Steam , and the developers have not fixed the main problems of the project, often dooming you to a shameful defeat in the race against time. Now I will explain everything.
Imagine you are the only employee of a popular bar. And not some run-down graveyard diner with cheap bile ale and nail-bitten snacks, but a prestigious establishment with a good assortment, located in the center of attraction for monsters of all categories.
Do you know what unites a crazy bum from a burned-out fire station, a doll that escaped from a thanatocosmetologist, and an august undead person? A love for good booze and quality fast food, as well as an absolute, uncompromising intolerance for bad service.
In the best tradition of restaurant simulators, you will prepare dishes in strict accordance with the wishes of the client, mix delicious cocktails and keep order in the workplace. Moreover, according to the philosophy of Horror Bar, exactly thirty seconds are given to serve each guest.
You don’t have to rush around the kitchen - all utensils and the necessary ingredients are at arm’s length. And, nevertheless, you will need extreme attentiveness, excellent coordination of movements and the ability to think quickly, because every new day the flow of customers will grow.
And this challenge would be fun and interesting, if not for the most annoying jambs with a collision. If in Cooking Simulator the physics of objects often causes the most amusing incidents, then in Horror Bar it simply interferes with completing tasks, forcing the user to replay difficult levels again and again, relying mainly on luck.
And you have to endure, because you want to try new recipes and earn a couple of hundred bucks for decor. You can change almost everything in the Horror Bar - two categories of goods are available in the store , each of which can completely transform the appearance of the bar.
The menu at Horror Bar is amazing: ladyfingers and freshly caught fried piranha, rat skewers and a cocktail of donated blood with dried ear - you definitely haven’t tried it. The drink should be mixed, instead of ice, add frozen eyeballs, a sweetener; meat for burgers must be chopped and fried on both sides while the buns are baking - each dish is prepared in stages, the choice of order is up to the player.
The graphics in the friv game are very decent, the objects differ in high-quality detailing. The monsters don't look intimidating, they're caricatured and ridiculous, just like your whole enterprise. Ingenious developers managed to fit several sectors for storage and cooking, appliances and appliances within the rack, there was even a place for an aquarium.
In addition to the campaign, there is a mode for a relaxed game, as well as a store with a huge number of positions where you can buy skins for dishes, a hob, a microwave, even for food. If you want to serve drinks not in a glass, but in an epic mug with a human bone handle, serve your guests diligently.
WHAT DID NOT LIKE
The physics of contact between objects is broken in a huge number of places. If you drop a product, it will be impossible to pick it up, remove the spatula from the carnation and put it by the cutting board - it will irrevocably sink into the textures. You are not free to choose where to store objects, but even following the unspoken rules, you often risk losing the dish due to a bug: fried fingers can simply disappear from the box, and a bun with a partially assembled burger can stick tightly to the countertop. This happens all the time.
There is no training system in the friv game, except that you harp every new dish without a timer. Since the kitchen and household appliances are specific here, not everything is intuitively clear. You have to think for a long time what is shown on the display with the order, where to get this or that ingredient, how to cook it.
WORTH TAKING?
If you're a fan of The Addams Family or comedic retro horror, it might be worth buying the Horror Bar for your collection (discounted). The possibilities of VR are well embodied here, but the physics is very badly done, which can significantly spoil your impressions. It remains to be hoped that the authors will find the strength to finalize the project.