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Toonstruck

It's about time

I've had this game since it came out. When you pop in the CD and do setup, the sound test is Tim Curry doing a sinister read of the words "Welcome to Toonstruck *laugh*" I bring this up because this is the kind of game this is. There are a lot of famous actors and comedians in this game from Jim Cummings (the legend) to Rob Paulsen. From Tim Curry to Christopher Lloyd. Even Dan Castellaneta who has a fairly significant role in the game. The puzzles I feel are a lot of fun to solve. They may not completely make sense logically, but they make sense in their surroundings. Even so, they don't get particularly difficult until later in the game (I think there's only one puzzle I've ever been stuck on in this game) and these days finding a walkthrough isn't hard if you do stuck. The animation in this is top notch. This game came out when Adventure games were "dieing" and so it failed to meet sales expectations. This is a shame because everything about the presentation is top notch. The animation is above and beyond anything Sierra or Lucasarts were ever able to do nor did they ever attempt this level of quality. The cutscenes would be saturday morning cartoon worthy if not for the (now) old fashioned video compression which is very obvious (always has been but got more obvious when screens resolutions got larger). For me this never detracted from a really fun story, but I felt it was important to mention. The story is similar to "Who framed Roger Rabbit" in a lot of ways. Except in this it's done more in a "Wizard of Oz" style. Instead of the cartoon world being real you're not sure if Drew Blank (that's the name of the character you control played by Christopher Lloyd- yes the game is not shy of puns) is dreaming or not, but much like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" you love that you're a real person in a cartoon world. I want to say more, but this counter is saying I am limited to what I have. Toonstruck is an under appreciated gem. If you haven't played it play it right now.

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