Haak Review. Pros and Cons

I loved Haak visual and audio design, game looks fantastic and control feels smooth. Animations are on point as well, although there are some serious drawbacks as well that were really annoying. We will talk about all that in this review.

Haak Gameplay

Haak is a platformer action-puzzle adventure game where you take a role of a sole adventurer who is looking for his brother. On your journey you will encounter multiple puzzles, jumping sequences, enemies and bosses. You will use different skills and tools in order to go though the game.

Magical glove that does melee damage and can throw a chained hook to do ranged damage and activate switches.  You can upgrade its damage, hook’s range and speed. This will be a main tool for your adventure.

Another thing is Dash ability, that will allow you to go through the dangerous obstacles, move faster, avoid attacks and so on. This skill is also useful in the jumping puzzles, prolonging your air duration and allowing you to reach far away places.

You will have to fight multiple enemies, ranging from simple slimes and blobs to the fullscale bosses with their own combat mechanics that you will have to learn and exploit in order to win the boss fights.

Speaking about bosses here comes the main caveat of the game. Onscreen controls are taking about 50% of your Boss combat area and you cant really see what the boss is doing and counter those moves. It makes these fights frustratingly annoying and hard.

Another drawback of Haat is death. When you die you just respawn and its, cool, but when you go through the tutorial monetization kicks in and you will have to watch long ad in order to revive. So I strongly recommend to buy the game if you like it to avoid frustration.

Difficulty wise the game feels harder than average because some jumping puzzles are pretty complex and they will just get harder over time. Fights are average and you can upgrade your character to make them easier.

Other than that the game is great, one of the best platformers I played so far on the mobile, it looks nice, it plays nice and story is really interesting to follow and fun.

Haak PROS and CONS

Haak PROS

1. Fantastic visuals. Game looks great, feels great, animation is fantastic and smooth.  It is easy to see that a lot of work has been put into making the game look good.

2. Sound design. Haak have great ambient sounds, music during intense fights and sfx that are pleasant to the ear on activities like weapon swinging, using skill or even opening a store terminal

3. Storyline. Haak is an exception from the most platformer games, it have great engaging story and fun dialogues. Curious characters and intriguing post-apocalyptic setting. Its interesting to read dialogues and learn what happened to the world. And there is always  a skip button for people who doesnt want that.

4. Solid progression mechanics. A lot of upgrades for all your weapons and skills. Its uncommon in platformers, but Haak made it all right. Collecting resources for the upgrades, health and energy upgrades and more will fill your need for the character progression.

Haak CONS

1. Horrible controls at the boss fights. Controls overlay, and fingers that are pressing them are closing about 50% of the screen in the boss fights. This prevents you from properly avoiding and countering boss attacks. For the most of the game your character is in the middle of the screen, but on the boss fights you have fixed “camera” and your character runs around the boss room.

2. AD on each death. Haak is a pretty hardcore experience. You will die and you will die a lot. And after every death you will be forced to watch a 30-second ad. It can be mitigated by either being good at the game or buying it though.

3. Some jumping puzzles are a little bit too hard. Maybe its the controls, or just me, but some of the jumping puzzles Ive encountered made me want to stop playing after trying them for 20 minutes. Although with enough patience they can be beaten.

Haak Verdict

Overall with all Pros and Cons considered Haak is still a fantastic game. Specifically if you buy it to avoid ads upon death. If you have external controller it will be even better. Its pretty great that its available for free for all the players to try it and decide if they want to buy it or not.

We hope that this Haak review helped you to learn something new about the game or make up your mind about buying it. If you have your own thoughts on Haak, let us know in the comments below.

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