The main Supervillain, Madame Scorpion, had a lot resting on her shoulders. Chief of them was the local equivalent of a Dungeons & Dragons session each of the characters attending the session had their personality seep through the tabletop adventure, it was a perfect mise en abîme. Some lines of dialogue are succulent, and I found a few moments to be quite hilarious. He doesn’t have a superpower, but he excels at banter, which takes advantage of the medium in which the story is told. Is he pragmatic, or just lazy? You can keep him in that state, or you can tap into his potential and prod him toward good or evil. Stan indeed begins humbly as your average unremarkable joe, just here to clock in and to clock out.

I did find Stan’s voice less charismatic than the others, but it fits the character: he starts out as an average henchman, and depending on where you take him, his voice will evolve as well. The writing is great, the characters are memorable, the interface is perfect with its comics style, the art is colorful, and all the dialogues are fully voiced! The voice actors also did an excellent job.

The work behind Henchman Story is stellar.Īnd it’s not just the quantity, but also the quality. Less impactful but still impressive are lots of small choices that get references in different lines of dialogues or alternative events further down the line. There are even more endings to explore, stretching your time with the game to easily 13-16h if you are keen on seeing everything. Actually, more than half of the story can be drastically different, with entirely new plots, locations, and dialogues! You can count 6 hours for your first run, then 2-3 hours more to explore the opposite branching storyline (you can fast-forward what you have already seen). Henchman Story is truly impressive there, as it allows you to ride the adventure to completely different outcomes. What follows is an action-adventure/thriller/comedy/romance as the player helps Stan navigate the treacherous environment of office politics amidst a war between heroes and villains. I won’t reveal more of the plot, except that thankfully, a neat new app allows Supervillains to recruit Uber drivers… errr, I mean henchmen-for-hire, as the plot taps into modern technologies as well. Superheroes and Supervillains clash, and two-third of the staff is left behind. Stan’s peaceful routine takes an unexpected turn when his boss suddenly graduates from simple dog food heists to a coordinated assault on a research center. Despite his pompous style, Lord Bedlman is a softie and his evil deeds are rather tame. We fill the purple shoes of a masked henchman named Stan, working for the grandiloquent Lord Bedlman, a caped villain who owns his own super-secret lair. As a lot of Visual Novels cater to specific genres and audiences, it could be helpful if I directly lay down a few key facts for those of you who need to know the following information. Henchman Story has a heavy focus on story, but it is also possible to trigger a few romances.

Henchman story review