This is an original and fun title that had lots of potential. The humour was great, the various characters were cute and some of the puzzles were quite clever. Unfortunately, these aren't enough, since: -Some of the puzzles are a bit of the moon logic kind. Also, a few of the puzzles are timed, which is something I dislike. -the controls are awful and the camera made me physically sick, although I never had such problems while gaming. Navigating some parts is unnecessarily complicated. -This problem is made even worse by the diabolical audio (both music and squeaky sfx) which makes the experience feel like a bad fever dream. -The various "arcade" sections really put me off. I thought adventure games had graduated from such things. This is also a short game, but due to feeling sick because of the camera/sound, I count the game's brevity as a positive thing.
Although this game has some great humour and hilarious situations, it is let down by the slow, clunky interface. The hero takes his sweeeeeet time when moving from location to location and the various animations (eg when you reach the fort) get tiring very quickly. The lack of keyboard shortcuts is a downside and a big negative is the cramped inventory, in which you can only see 5 items, while you have to carry around dozens of items. There are also often situations with obvious solutions that require the unreasonable use of the 'move' verb, instead of the obvious 'pick up' or 'use'. The puzzles are a bit hit and miss and I consider them to be on the difficult side. Although you cannot die or get stuck in this game, there are dialogues with precious clues which disappear after hearing them once, so you had better have eidetic memory or take notes! The graphics are cartoony but the choice of colour makes them tiring to the eyes. There is very little music and the voice acting is ok-ish. Overall, avoid this one, or get it when discounted and have a walkthrough handy.
