{"id":5819,"date":"2019-06-28T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2019-08-21T02:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T09:10:43","slug":"dropsy-hugs-and-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/5819","title":{"rendered":"Dropsy: Hugs and Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I still haven’t finished Dropsy<\/em>, so I could turn out to be wrong about this, but: It seems like most of the puzzles around befriending people are in the nature of optional side-quests. Advancing the story does require gaining cooperation from certain people, I think, but for the most part, you’re expected to simply want hugs for their own sake. Although if that’s not enough, the game does provide one other motivator for completists: there’s a record of everyone you’ve hugged, in the form of crayon drawings on a wall of the clown’s bedroom. This gives it a definite “Gotta hug ’em all!” aspect.<\/p>\n

It also reminds me a little of The Witcher<\/em> and its sexual conquest cards that drew so much attention. I was contemplating making that comparison into the basis for an entire blog post, exploring the question of what the difference is, but on reflection, it’s hardly even a question worth asking.<\/p>\n

There are a few drawings already on the wall at the start of the game, of those that the clown has already had ample opportunity to hug: the clown’s green-haired colleague, their deceased friend, the dog. Yes, animals count. So does any sufficiently-huggable inanimate object, such as a statue or a tree. There’s one drawing that kind of puzzles me, though: it shows what looks like some kind of squidlike alien. 1<\/sup><\/a>UPDATE<\/strong>: It turns out to actually be a rather impressionistic depiction of a security robot from the corporate HQ lobby.<\/span><\/span>