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7.0Chicken Police: Into the Hive has some particularly charming characters and great visuals, but is slightly let down by the overall story.
Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!
The Wild Gentlemen · Nov 7, 2024
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Chicken Police - Into the HIVE! is a character-driven, story-rich, film-noir detective adventure in which you must uncover a complex, world-scale conspiracy by gathering clues, interrogating suspects, and solving puzzles.
Sonny and Marty, the Wilderness's toughest detectives, are about to embark on the biggest case of their lives, which will take them through the insect underworld and force them to face the darkest reaches of their past.
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- Destructoid4.5Into the Hive isn’t the bigger and better follow-up that Paint it Red deserved. It’s only half of one, and what happened to that other half is a mystery of its own. All that was found was an empty shell and some bloodied remains. Not the way it deserved to go out.
- Softpedia9.0Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! is a fun, often funny, and sometimes touching experience. It knows how to work within both the noir and the adventure game genres. The cast of animal characters is well-chosen, and Sonny makes for a great protagonist. Play the game in short sessions, soak in the atmosphere, and don’t be dissuaded by the more frustrating mini-games. There are a few moments when conversations feel out of sequence, depending on player choices. The puzzle elements rarely feel like they belong. Some locations feel too small. But these are limitations of the adventure game genre and Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! works hard to push past them and manages to give fans a good plot, great characters, and cool interrogation scenes.
- Gameliner9.0The Wild Gentlemen heeft met Chicken Police: Into the HIVE! opnieuw bewezen meester te zijn in het neerzetten van een film-noir detective met interessante personages die zijn voorzien van dierenkoppen. Hoewel de game met vijf tot zes uur aan de korte kant is en je weinig kansen hebt om personages te verhoren is dit echt een aanrader. Zelfs als visual novels niet direct de games zijn die je normaal speelt is deze game de moeite waard. De geweldige muziek en sublieme voice acting trekken je zo mee het verhaal in waardoor je eigenlijk niet meer wil stoppen tot je de credits ziet rollen.
- Finger Guns8.0With their second outing, Chicken Police Into The Hive does not disappoint, brimming with classy noir style, phenomenal dialogue and a wonderful seedy underworld narrative that has you hanging off every word. Visual novels don’t get much better than this.
- TheGamer9.0With a grim mystery, vividly violent world, interesting side quests and minigames, impressively real animal characters, and multiple endings to experience, you’ll struggle to put Into the Hive down once you pick it up. The story of Into the Hive is fresh enough to stand on its own, but with endless ties back to the first game between characters and references, the experience of playing both weaves together a horrifically beautiful story of inequality, crime, and style that sticks with you long past the ending.
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