The Henry Stickmin Collection

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Endings	32
Release Date	August 7th, 2020
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“	The Henry Stickmin Collection is a Newgrounds choose-your-own-path classic, reborn and revitalized. This 6-game epic culminates in multiple entirely canon, extremely different endings. Each step of the journey has you choose from options such as a Teleporter or calling in your buddy Charles to help you out. Correct choices will move the story forward, but incorrect choices lead to a fail. If you get to the end on your first try, you’re doing it wrong. Failing is half the fun. The Henry Stickmin games have seen some good times on the internet, but age has not been kind. Breaking the Bank has been completely reanimated from scratch. Escaping the Prison, Stealing the Diamond, Infiltrating the Airship and Fleeing the Complex have all had their backgrounds and sound effects redone!	„
	― Information about the collection^[src]

The Henry Stickmin Collection is an anthology collection of remastered versions of the first five games in the Henry Stickmin series with improved visuals. A new game, Completing the Mission, was developed specifically for the collection, to serve as a final chapter to the story. All games (with the exception of Completing the Mission) were remastered through Adobe specifically for this collection, with the first game in the series, Breaking the Bank, receiving a remake and being labelled as a prologue to the whole series. It was made by PuffballsUnited and Innersloth, and released on Steam on August 7th 2020.

The Henry Stickmin Collection consists of six games; Breaking the Bank, Escaping the Prison, Stealing the Diamond, Infiltrating the Airship, Fleeing the Complex, and Completing the Mission. In each game, the player has to help the titular protagonist Henry Stickmin succeed in an assignment. To do so, they can choose between multiple tools for Henry to use or actions to perform. First starting off as a thief, Henry can later become an agent of the Government, the leader of the Toppat Clan criminal syndicate, or remain neutral as a thief, either still a criminal or pardoned. Henry can also end up as an escaped prisoner of the Toppat Clan, or he could steal from them either by himself or with a partner named Ellie Rose. Lastly, Henry can also be dethroned from his position as leader of said criminal syndicate, either due to his fault or the previous leader's, if the latter is true, then Henry will seek revenge against him. The player can choose the events and endings, due to the games functioning via point-and-click format.

The teaser trailer for The Henry Stickmin Collection was released on Puffballs' YouTube channel in July 2019 and its final release date was announced in May 2020. From then on, there were many other teaser videos, mostly about the visual improvements of the remakes. The Henry Stickmin Collection received "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews from steam users, with a 98% rating based on 24,000+ reviews. Reviewers praised the collection for its humour, animation, production value (specifically in Completing the Mission), & storylines, with some praising the sense of nostalgia they experienced while playing the game. A developer's commentary of the collection was later made by Puffballs, which began in December 2020 and ended in January 2021.

Summary

The Henry Stickmin Collection consists of six games; Breaking the Bank, Escaping the Prison, Stealing the Diamond, Infiltrating the Airship, Fleeing the Complex, and Completing the Mission. In each game, the player has to help the titular protagonist Henry Stickmin succeed in an assignment. To do so, they can choose between multiple tools for Henry to use or actions to perform. First starting off as a thief, Henry can later become an agent of the Government partnered with a pilot named Charles Calvin, a bounty hunter, the leader of a notorious criminal syndicate known as the Toppat Clan, or remain neutral as a thief, either still a criminal or pardoned. Henry can also end up as an escaped prisoner of the Toppat Clan, or he could steal from them either by himself or with a partner named Ellie Rose. Lastly, Henry can also be dethroned from his position as leader of said criminal syndicate, either due to his fault or the previous leader's, if the latter is true, then Henry will seek revenge against him.

Games

The Henry Stickmin Collection includes remastered versions all five games in the series, along with the new game Completing the Mission, which serves as a final chapter to the story;

Breaking the Bank (2008): Henry tries to break into a bank in the middle of the desert to rob its vault.
Escaping the Prison (2010): After having been caught while robbing the bank, Henry attempts to escape from jail in West Mesa Penitentiary.
Stealing the Diamond (2011): Henry tries to steal the elusive Tunisian Diamond from the museum within its exhibition.
Infiltrating the Airship (2013): Henry is recruited by the government to infiltrate the airship of a mighty criminal organization, the Toppat Clan.
Fleeing the Complex (2015): Henry is taken to The Wall, a highly secured prison complex said to hold some of the most notorious criminals — and tries to escape from there, with or without an ally.
Completing the Mission (2020): After escaping from The Wall, Henry is tasked with a new objective; to defeat or help (depends on his choices) the Toppat Clan and prevent or assist with their plan to launch a space station into orbit.

Plot

Breaking the Bank

Henry Stickmin attempts to break into a bank, built in the middle of a desert. He stands next to a wall and wonders how to break inside. Using a Disguising Bag, Henry ties himself up in a yellow money sack and waits by the road. Policemen/truck drivers Ted McAdams and Winston Davis pass by in the van and stop when they see him. After a short exchange where Ted wonders how they lost one and Winston decides they should take it just to be safe, they throw him in the back and drive to the bank where guards Chad Hansen and Philly Colin are talking and wondering about why there's a bank in the middle of the desert. Henry is thrown in the vault and it is locked. When he stands up, he is caught by a security laser and sets off the alarm. He is later arrested.

Escaping the Prison

Henry is now imprisoned inside West Mesa Penitentiary. Police officers Dave Panpa & Rupert Price brought a package addressed for Henry to his cell, and delivers it to him. Rupert taunts Henry by claiming that the package contains no such object that would allow the prisoner to escape the building. He asks his friend, Dave, to confirm that the package has been checked. Dave presumably was to check the package, However, Dave begins to chuckle nervously, claiming that he did inspect the package for anything suspicious because he does not want to lose his job as an officer. The two then leave Henry to his own business with the package. Inside the package is a cake, with multiple tools hidden inside. Henry reaches in to grab an object out. He manages to escape by either escaping sneakily, busting out, or being found not guilty in court.

Stealing the Diamond

Some time after his escape from prison, Henry is now at home. He tunes to a news broadcast on TV, which shows Mayor Gene Fredrickson announcing the grand opening of the new Tunisian Archaeological Exhibit inside the National Museum of History and Culture. Within the new exhibit sits the priceless Tunisian Diamond, valued at a whopping $112 million dollars. Henry is ten days late on rent payments for his house. Seeing the diamond's price tag, he decides to take off for the museum in order to steal the giant gemstone. On the outskirts of the museum, Henry can choose how to breach into the facility. All three choices result in Henry successfully stealing the diamond.

Henry becomes somewhat of a well-known criminal after his successful th e ft of the Tunisian Diamond.

Infiltrating the Airship

After stealing the Tunisian Diamond from the museum, Henry has been kidnapped by the Government, waking up on board a helicopter. There to greet him is Captain Hubert Galeforce, who recognizes Henry's skills as a criminal, and gets him to put them to the test in a mission. The Government has trouble capturing a collective of criminals known as the Toppat Clan. They are unable to pin them to criminal charges, thus they can't take legal action against them. Henry's mission is to infiltrate the Toppat Airship in an effort to bring them to justice. Noting Henry's lengthy criminal record (attempted robbery, escaping prison, and grand theft), Galeforce informs him that all charges against him will be dropped, if he gets the mission completed. Charles Calvin, the helicopter pilot, takes Henry closer to the Airship and asks him where to disembark.

Depending on the player's choices, Henry can either help the government and become either a bounty hunter or government supported private investigator, go rogue and steal the Romanian Ruby from the Toppats, or betray the government and become the new leader of the Toppats.

Fleeing the Complex

At The Wall, a heavily-secured incarceration complex located in Canada, the Warden, Dmitri Johannes Petrov, and his second-in-command Grigori Olyat, find a lengthy criminal record in their files belonging to Henry. Deeming him to be dangerous enough for incarceration at The Wall, the two decide to move in to kidnap Henry. Henry wakes up at the complex where he finds Dmitri "welcoming" Henry to his new home. Dmitri states that only the most notorious criminals are held there. Dmitri taunts Henry by informing him that he would remain at The Wall for a long time, before ordering Grigori to take him and send Henry to a transfer cell. In the transfer cell, a woman by the name of Ellie Rose is also awaiting a transfer to her cell. With Grigori turned toward the hallway, Henry can plan his means of escape. Depending on the player's choices, Henry can escape either solo or with Ellie, or with help from either Charles or the Toppats.

Completing the Mission

The missions in the game all involve The Toppat Clan making one final move. In most missions, they have a new Orbital Station, which they either are about to launch from the Toppat Launch Site in the Dogobogo Jungle (with the military trying to prevent the launch in The Toppat Raid) or have already launched and are now operating from Space. Some endings take place almost entirely on the Airship. Henry's motives in the game change drastically, also based on the combinations of endings that the player chooses. Henry will want to launch the rocket if he's sided with the Toppat Clan, stop it if he's working for the government, or break into it for the riches of the Toppats.

Unlike the previous five games, which had one main story with different possible endings, Completing the Mission contains multiple possible stories. Which story/mission the player gets depends on a choice made at the start of the game which endings from Infiltrating the Airship and Fleeing the Complex the player wishes to continue from.

Characters

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Characters in the collection are stick figures, which means they have minimal body design and black lines instead of clothes, but distinct facial design with long linear eyes and eyebrows above their heads that are unique to Puffballs' style.

Gameplay

Players go through a total of six episodes, five of which had previously been standalone games; Prologue (Breaking the Bank), Episode 1 (Escaping the Prison), Episode 2 (Stealing the Diamond), Episode 3 (Infiltrating the Airship), Episode 4 (Fleeing the Complex), and Episode 5 (Completing the Mission).

The game centers on Henry Stickmin, a fictional character that performs various actions depending on the choices the player chooses. Players are given a minimum of two choices; depending on the choice they pick, Henry will either succeed and overcome the situation or scenario or "Fail," in which case the player is presented with a unique animation, usually accompanied by some joke or commentary on the choice made. Players aren't punished for failing a scenario; they are given infinite re-dos while a "total fail count," and a "unique fail count," keep score of how many times they player has "failed" and how many unique fails there are in the episode, encouraging the player to seek out all of the possible fails in the game.

Sometimes, there will be a scenario in which there is more than one choice that is correct. Similarly, there are even rarer occasions where there isn't a correct choice at all.

Because Infiltrating the Airship and Fleeing the Complex both have endings that are dependent on player choice, when starting Completing the Mission, the player must pick one ending each, generating a unique story and perspective for the final episode.

Medals - Bound to the Earth — An example of an Achievement.

Achievements

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Achievements are earned by achieving a task in the collection. These usually include winning a certain way, finding an easter egg or failing a certain amount of times. Each one has a certain amount of points given when it is achieved.

Bios

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Charles Calvin bio — An example of a Bio

Bios are a feature exclusive to the collection, which provide names and backgrounds for previously unnamed characters in the series. There is a total of 425 bios in the entire series.

The majority of characters seen in the collection have a Bio entry, which are all, except for Henry Stickmin's, initially hidden and locked. They cannot be viewed until the player spots the character in a game, and right-clicks them. Each game's Bios are separate, meaning that players will have to unlock the same character more than once if they are present in multiple games.

It is also possible for the same character to have more than one bio within the same game if the character appears in multiple variations. An example is the Right Hand Man in Completing the Mission, where he appears both as a cyborg and as a human, depending on which pathway is chosen, and both as a cyborg or a cyborg rewired by Henry in the Rewire option.

Plans, release, and reception