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Toonstruck

Fantastic gamedesign

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.

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