Flight of the Amazon Queen

Clearly inspired by LucasFilm/LucasArts' milestones in graphic adventure games genre, the game has a feeling of both: the Monkey Island and Indiana Jones, taken however in its own light B-class movie style and sense of humour. Pilot-adventurer, beautiful women, evil antagonists and secrets of the past, plus plenty of humorous references to popular culture. A great game for people wanting an introduction to adventure games of the 90s and/or an introduction to point-and-click adventure games in general. The game is perfect for beginners, the puzzles are rather on the easy side, yet fun to solve. For hard core players that need bigger challenge, they might be too simple, though (as you can read in other reviews). Technically, the game is OK, no bugs encountered. Graphics is good (for the time) but animations are superb, so many tiny, sometimes super funny details (note the way they must have been made - pixel by pixel...). They are on par with early Amiga and DOS LucasArts games, if not better in some cases. Not much more could be done with the technology that days (standard Amiga/VGA graphics, 320x200 in 32 or 64 colours on Amiga, 256 on PC). Music, while maybe not particularly memorable, nicely completes the tone of the scenes. Dialogs carrying a significant part of the plot, are not overloaded, kept brief yet informational and funny. Structure and construction of the plot is well thought and implemented, with increasing game complexity. Just couple of locations before the end seemed a bit rushed. Four stars for the game, plus half as it was made by a small team resulting in a product comparable to games of big companies like LucasArts, plus half star for the release: free, with additional material, like "Making of...", giving a glimpse of indie game development in the 90s. The only thing that could be added (for completeness) is the original version for Amiga, on which, according to the authors in "Making of...", the game was first developed.

This point-and-click game owes much to titles such as Monkey Island, because most puzzles have some comedic logic and the mechanics are very forgiving (i.e. no chance to die or to get "stuck"). That said, graphics are ok for that age and sound effects are good. Since it's free, I don't see why you shouldn't give it a try.

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Few games can have an impact on me similar to this one game. Flight of the Amazon Queen is an adventure point-n-click game that is really fun to play thanks to its plot, easter eggs to other franchises like Monkey Island, graphics, voice-over lines, etc. If you really enjoy this genre, this game is a must-have for your library.

Phantastic old school point and click!