Posted on: January 26, 2022
Haruka_VII
Games: 22 Reviews: 4
A Must-Have for Point-And-Clickers
Set up in late Cretaceous era on a fictional North American area, Zniw Adventure players will have to help the protagonist Zniw (an unknown dinosaur specimen) find her way back home after a succession of unforeseen events to find a present for her mother to match the Hatching Day, requiring to talk with different sentient dinosaur species, interacting with objects and solving puzzles. The story evolves to the resolution of a mystery that Zniw needs to solve once caught into a misunderstanding at a certain moment of plot progression. The player needs to explore landscapes, talk with characters, using inventory objects and activating action commands like looking, touching, grabbing, etc. The puzzles have surprised me positively in how non-conventional are these in the sense they aren’t extremely obvious and do require some good thinking, not to mention how they were cleverly designed to suit the prehistoric atmosphere and technology used by the now-extinct reptilians. The game can be cleared in between 10 to 15 hours (average) in total but completing it at 100% might require about 20 and going for more than one walkthrough (once the player finishes the story, the game allows players to repeat it but with everything they’ve unlocked before like the Shiny Pebbles). The team of developers (the core being only two people: the artist and the programmer) managed to deliver an extraordinarily ambitious project in six years of working in their free time and without any budget. The quality of the final product paid of and it’s a love letter to the genre that successes in replicating the atmosphere of the same type of games developed in the decade of the 90s. Zniw Adventure is a solid, good-humored, and charming point-and-click videogame designed for general audience that delight players from all ages, regardless their skill level and is certainly capable to bring new curious people to learn more about those who once have roamed the Planet Earth!
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