Hollywood Animal is one of my most anticipated games for this year. It puts you in charge of a budding film company, immerses you in a sea of convoluted and ethically bankrupt employees, and gives you carte blanche when it comes to resolving conflicts. similar to actual life (maybe).
I wish I could say that Hollywood Animal is my most anticipated game, but it seems to be trying too much. The amount of flexibility and variables at play make it seem difficult to make sure everything functions properly without a long list of glitches, edits, and feature creep.
If the substantial demo is any indication, Weappy Wholesome has succeeded.
Hollywood Animal Image courtesy of Weappy Studio begins with you acquiring and transforming a bankrupt studio. I won't inquire as to how you obtained the money. After deciding on a name and a logo (I chose Middling Pictures), you may start learning about the industry.
The format of the lesson is intriguing. You take over a film that was almost finished but not released by the previous company before they went bankrupt. All you have to do is put the final touches on Hollywood Animals (Hollywood Animals), which is an amazing film that even describes its narrative, which is a great touch. This gives you an overview of the business's post-production and distribution stages. While the latter is one of the more enigmatic aspects of the game, the former is really simple.
You're then taken to the recruiting of workers when that movie is doing well at the box office. There's a chance that this extensive procedure may become too much to handle. You're really simply given your crew and the ability to rename them to help alleviate that. After that, you have to work on the studio lot, write scripts, plan, shoot, and make decisions. Gradually, however, you will be given more freedom. Your movies are likely to be terrible for a while until you have things in order, so it's probably a good thing you have a hit already under your belt.
Hollywood Animals is about repeating the same procedure over and over, so even while there is a ton of potential for your own originality, there is generally a danger of it becoming stale. This is particularly true given that the game begins in 1929 and progresses gradually through time, reflecting historical events that have occurred in real life. But you're thrown at so many different angles that it never gets boring.The principal actor in the film was promised a portion of the earnings by the previous studio ownership, which was one of the first things that really got to me. I was meant to respect that star for their family even though it had gone away as the new owner. However, the contract was never read by the family, so whatever. My lawyer buried it for me. After that, it was added to my pile of secrets—a grouping of things that might be uncovered.As expected, this flopped. The family was informed. Fortunately, I was able to reach a settlement outside of court, which didn't come at too much more of a cost than if I had simply followed the terms of the contract from the beginning.Another time, security called to tell me that a crazy, unpredictable guy was walking around the studio holding a screenplay. Although no one could really know what was in it, he still wanted to sell it. Taking a gamble, I got it since it was inexpensive.It proved to be a really good script. An 8 out of 10 is a very good starting point for a production. But the Los Angeles mayor approached me and asked to have his daughter starred in a film. She wasn't an actress, but it would be helpful to have the mayor's favor.I thus supported this brilliant script that was forced upon me in order to hide my lack of skill. It was going to ruin the image to a great extent, but so what? It wasn't written by me. Most likely, I wouldn't see the man again. Since I wouldn't be upset with my employees, I may as well use the script to wipe my behind and appease the mayor.It seems like there's always an honest way to handle things, which is definitely something I should mention, but honesty has never produced a profitable company.However, things won't simply happen at random to jam your gears. Hollywood Animals wants to make sure you understand that you are dealing with people. Yes, they are simulations of people, but they still have their own egos, biases, and vices. They have families too, since I had a scriptwriter ask for time off to care for their sick mother.You won't be limited to managing HR. Preferred outcomes may sometimes complicate casting. From time to time, actors may decline to play a part that they believe is beneath them.Trying to cast a woman in the main part of a thriller was one of my biggest obstacles. Unexpectedly, a lot of performers declined to play the main role in a film starring a woman. No guy would take this, so I ended up having to pay out the nose to fill one specific duty.Then, just because there was a woman playing the lead, the reviewers dissected it when I sought to have it released in cinemas. Critics are filthy people. Even after targeting women with my advertising, I managed to make a sizable profit. You may sup upon my ass, the 1930s. In a few decades, when it is reevaluated, we'll see who is laughing. In another instance, a rival company made an offer to an actor that was more favorable. Fortunately, he was covered in dirt. I stopped the conversation by threatening to disclose that he had slept with a fifteen-year-old.There are many methods you may update your "security" office. After about two hours, the demo finishes, so I didn't get to truly go into some of the ways you might show off your weak moral character. But the upgrading track goes all the way to outright murder. You may employ security to safeguard your secrets as your adversaries will attempt to uncover information about you and damage your reputation.It's a lot, as I said. Hollywood Animals is filled with so much. Many aspects might be abstracted, given that it is mostly menu-based. But instead of stopping at the essentials, Weappy Wholesome went all out. The experience is enhanced by the abundance of color, which extends to the way you choose the movie poster and tagline for your productions as well as the variations in the weather and time of day on your property.While a release date hasn't been revealed and the demo is already polished to a mirror shine, there's still a chance that Hollywood Animals will fall apart later in the game. However, I'm quite certain that won't happen. It seems like it will be among my top releases of the year.