

I don’t play visual novels very often, but pouring a coating of supervillainy over top sounds pretty fun. Stan doesn’t have any powers or a tragic backstory, he’s just some dude trying to get by in a world where people fly and bench press cars. When you see this wild superhero setting through the eyes of some ordinary schmuck who gets his ass kicked for a living, it takes on a whole different vibe with a whole different meaning.

To me, both comedy and games excel at showing us things from a different perspective, and that’s the goal here. The initial concept behind Henchman Story was a marriage of my passion for complex, branching video game narratives, and my predisposition for weird, irreverent humor. Post published:MaReading time:6 mins read Post category:Demos/Visual. Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox One, Microsoft Xbox Series XS, Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation.
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Henchman Story is basically a visual novel with branching story paths, 11 endings, and full voice acting, and it follows “Stan, an unlucky henchman to the boisterous, bottom-feeding supervillain Lord Bedlam.”Īmong other things, Soskin offered the following about Henchman Story ahead of its October launch on Switch and its other platforms: Read more about the article Henchman Story Demo: Villainous Humor. The game is written by Marc Soskin, who was part of the narrative team behind The Outer Worlds, but this is a decidedly different title.

Publisher Top Hat Studios and developer Silken Sail have announced with a release date trailer that interactive supervillain adventure Henchman Story is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox platforms, and (sans Top Hat) PC on October 14, 2021.
