Fran Bow

Great point and click adventure game. Well written gruesome story, well balanced and distributed puzzles, good soundtrack. Be ready for horror within a girl's cheerful yet dark mind. Totally recommend. Note that the dialogues are in script only, there is no voice acting.

This game definitely kept me interested. I finished in two days. Though, even if they made the game longer, it's hard to put down. The story line gave you enough throughout the game to understand your larger goals, but not very much detail is provided. I would have liked to have felt a bit more closure at the end of the game, but unfortunately I was left with many unanswered questions due to its rushed nature. With more backstory, the jumping scenes, characters, and overall plot would have seemed more cohesive. This is very much a click escape game. It does go a little bit deeper, by sending you on mini quests. There are comical mini games intermixed like Frogger, which I found very entertaining. The amount of brain power you need to escape the rooms/scenes varies greatly. Some are easy and mindless, others seemed impossible until I looked at cheats. One of the aspects of the game I did not like was that some of the loops it had you go through were excessive and redundant, meaning there were more logical ways of reaching the goals. For example, instead of having to gather and combine several objects strewn about the scene to reach a key on a hook, Fran could have easily hopped on the chair right underneath it to reach it.

This is by far one of the best adventure games I have ever played. The story is really vague but that adds to it's charm. The graphics are like a children's novel, but the content is definitely not for children. It's a great adult story disguised as a children's tale. It's extremely dark but also extremely endearing at the same time. You really can connect with the innocense of Fran and her great love: her black cat. The puzzles are just the right amount of difficult without being forced puzzlery if you get what I mean. All the puzzles make sense and there are a lot of hints scattered over the game, if you pay attention. I really really love this game and I'm almost sorry that I cannot experience it for the very first time again. Great work! Pure genious!

While Point-&-Click games might not be everyone's cup of tea, I would recommend giving Fran Bow a try for those willing to give this genre a chance. Fran Bow has excellent narrative and stylized graphics and atmosphere, even though the pacing is a little slow at first. You'll find that the story is very well told and the characters and settings introduced in the story are all fascinating. The sound is also commendable but like all P&C adventures, it's a very relaxed and laid-back game so temper your expectations and simply play it for the story, because the reward at the end is quite good.

Довольно интересное Point&Click приключение с хоррор составляющим и мини-играми