This game is a labor of love by first-time german developers from Filmakademie Baden-Würtenberg - namely "Studio Fizbin". It's rare that a developer gets a game this right, but from absolute newcomers, this is quite a marvel.
I wont write about what the game's about, rather on how it works, and what it's like.
The game's as oldschool as it gets. Have you played any old-school point&click adventures? You'll fell at home. Also, as opposed to something like "The Book of Unwritten Tales", they seem to only take the "good" elements from those games, and build theirs frome those blocks (no horrific action-sequences, pixel hunting, timed events, sudden deaths, etc).
On the other hand, this game offers practically nothing new.
It's a very nice looking, celverly written story with an interesting world and a nice cartoony design and fun and varied puzzles. Tha said, it's not "eye-poppingly" beautiful, it's a pretty contrived story, and all these puzzles are vey familiar form older games.
Still, a very solid, and confidently made game with great humor and likeable characters. While there's nothing groundbraking about it, it does what it sets out to do pretty much flawlessly. If you like the genre, this is going to be an enjoyable addition to your library.
About the two negative aspects that seem to pop up:
- Personally I haven't run into any technical issues myself. Maybe I have a different setup, but I encountered no bugs at all. That doesn't mean you wont either, I guess it's different for each one of us and can't be objectively dismissed.
- There's nothing mysoginistic about this game. At all. That can be objectively dismissed.
