{"id":22048,"date":"2022-02-25T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22048"},"modified":"2022-02-13T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T14:03:34","slug":"the-humans-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/the-humans-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humans (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a pre-teen\/early teen in the late 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s, one of my favorite games was Lemmings.\u00a0 I played the heck out of this series, and I\u2019m sure most gamers still know about it since there were tons of ports and sequels.\u00a0 In these games, you guided a bunch of mindless critters to an exit by giving them tools and skills so they wouldn\u2019t walk blindly off of cliffs and into danger.\u00a0 Back when this game was on store shelves in places like Babbage\u2019s (remember those), another game that was next to it was usually The Humans.\u00a0 It featured cartoony art of cavemen so it always caught my eye, but I never played it back then even though it looked like another Lemmings style game to me.\u00a0 So that\u2019s why I\u2019m glad I got to review this collection now.\u00a0 Turns out the game is a bit more like The Lost Vikings than Lemmings (games with prehistoric themes sure were popular back then, what with titles like Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninjas and this).\u00a0 Anyway, The Humans is a puzzle platformer where you guide and switch between cavemen as you use tools and make human ladders to achieve goals.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch and PS4 here.<\/p>\n

There are two versions of The Humans on this collection.\u00a0 A 16-bit version and a portable version.\u00a0 I looked it up, and the 16-bit version is the Super Nintendo port.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been cool if they included the SEGA Genesis and Amiga PC ports as well.\u00a0 The portable version is the black and white Game Boy one.\u00a0 The level layouts are slightly different in each one, but they are more or less the same game.\u00a0 To play, you\u2019ll guide each human directly and switch between them.\u00a0 Your goal is different in each level, but usually you have to get from point A to point B.\u00a0 You can do things like press up and switch cavemen to climb up them and make a human ladder to reach higher platforms.\u00a0 Or you can pick up and use tools like spears, fire, and even magic from a Witch Doctor.<\/p>\n

I just had one major problem with this collection.\u00a0 There are no in-game instructions.\u00a0 That would be fine if the games were simple and intuitive enough to figure out on your own, but this one is not.\u00a0 It was originally released in a world where games came with detailed printed instruction booklets.\u00a0 But this collection has no such thing.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t bother to reprint digitally the original manual like some game ports do<\/strong><\/a>, which would\u2019ve been helpful.\u00a0 I tried looking in all the options screens and the closest thing I could find is the button mapping option, which just tells you the buttons and \u201cAction 1, Action 2, Action 3, etc.\u201d\u00a0 Totally useless.\u00a0 So I couldn\u2019t get very far since I couldn\u2019t figure out how to use spears as pole vaults to jump over pits, and the Game Boy version is even worse at that.\u00a0 I even tried watching videos and looking at the instructions online and it still didn\u2019t help me.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure there\u2019s still a good game in here somewhere, but unless you\u2019re adept at figuring out how to play games on your own (I guess I\u2019m not), then best of luck trying to play this.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Humans is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Blood.\u00a0 When your cavemen get hit by a spear, dinosaur, or long fall, they just disappear in a puff of smoke and another human takes their place.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find this too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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