Huey the Kid is a game where we play as... Huey the Kid, of course! The basic story is that Huey, a little kid that lives in the town of Puecco, wakes up one day, meets Junior, a boy that dares him to test his raft, so our little hero after a frantic mini-game reaches Goose Village and realizes he's quite far from home. What follows is a little adventure about slaying monsters and being ignored by adults… besides an odd quest of finding out “where he comes from” involving angels.
Huey The Kid is a little lighthearted adventure of a brave kid with a hammer, rather than the epic quest of a teenager with a big sword and a peculiar hairstyle. It's not bad at all, there are some well-edited and well-used battle characters, pity for some minor issues like immobile npcs without dialogues. For the rest it's a pretty classic RTP game with random battle encounters and some simple puzzles that doesn't offer anything really new or exciting (except for the raft ride and replacing healing potions with candies, PhoenixDowns with wishbones and save points with... slimes), but in my opinion it's still a cute little game!
Random Fact: Huey the Kid is a complete one hour adventure that was supposed to be the first episode of a series. Unfortunately the reviews were average at best, and in the end it never had a the promised sequel(s) adventure(s). Another peculiar thing is that the game project is titled "Teddy Boy"… the same name of Huey's cat in the game.
Final Verdict: uhm I didn't liked a lot Huey as a character, but the adventure could have been a nice introduction to a probable longer story and setting. It's all pretty classic, I just wished there were more puzzles/minigames and less random encounters, after all we play as a child, not as a knight!
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