Toonstruck

That alone should be enough to throw a few bucks at this amazing production. (Who knows? Perhaps the rights holders will let Toonstruck 2 out of captivity? YES, that exists. Made back to back, but the first flopped, despite being a gem! The sequel is still in game limbo!)

Just image what the developers did back in the old century. We are taking about times where win95 was new and fancy. That's were I first bought this game. And 20 years later I can not help remembering the 2 cows in the barn. So I simply had to play it again. Some features from by point: - one of the first games with spoken audio. - Cutscenes with real actors paired with animated ones. - good story with no bugs or glitches. - detailed scenes with animations everywhere - And that all for < 1GB. The guys knew how to program... The game is fun to play. Ok, at some points I have to admit that I needed to do try-and-error. The solutions are sometimes too freaky. Thanks for making it possible to relive old memories...

I was avoiding this game for long time thinking of as "kid's game" until recently read someone's very positive opinion on reddit and decided to give it a shot. Now I'm very glad I did. In terms of point and click adventure gamedesign, Toonstruck is close to perfection. Really top notch. Except few slightly random ones (or maybe I missed the hints) puzzles are extremely clever and well done. Not frustrating and not too easy but hard enough to give satisfaction, in two words - just right. Objectives are usually pretty clear but how to achieve them might be tricky. However when you deduce solution you'll be amazed how cool and clever it is. Puzzles are logical but occasionally might require thinking in cartoon's world logical way. And game world is packed with these puzzles on almost every step. It looks silly and as game for kids but the more you play you realize it really isn't the case. At least not entirely. There is enough of intelligent, absurd and occasionally even dark humor to please adult audiences. Hell, there are even sexual or quite disturbing undertones (the infamous sheep and cow dominatrixes couple in their S & M dungeon... I mean barn, would be the most peculiar one). Heavily recommended for anyone who likes point and clicks with great puzzles, lots of humor and is open for some cartoonish silliness. Above average English knowledge is recommended though, as final puzzle of first act of the game is based on English idioms. I don't know how it was resolved in translated versions to make any sense.

I pointedly ignored this game back in the day. I was an idiot. This came out in the dark days when point-and-click adventure games were dying and full-motion-video games were desperately trying to be a thing. Based on the box art, I foolishly assumed "Toonstruck" was another FMV embarrassment like Rob Schneider's "A Fork in the Tale" or "Ripper" (featuring Christopher Walken's only truly bad performance). I feared it was a shabby "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" ripoff. I was so very wrong. This was no cheap cash-grab production. If you are a fan of animation and the pantheon of cartoon voice actors that rose up in the 90s, you will appreciate the amount of work that went into this game. I had never seen footage or a screenshot of this game, so my 2019 playthrough was completely fresh. I was instantly on board and chuckled from start to finish. Christopher Lloyd's green-screen sequences are absolutely charming, and the writing and performances are legitimately funny. This game should be appreciated with the adventure game greats of old instead of being relegated to a gaming history footnote.

I played this game not long after it came out and I can still quote several dialogues perfectly... I don't know yet if this version is well ported and compatible for all systems but I do know that I'm going to know that very soon. If you like point and click games buy this game. But if you like point and click games you probably already own this game anyway :p