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And… I finished the game. Turns out after the portion I was stuck in, I didn’t have much left to do. This game is one of the biggest surprises for me. I think it ranks in my top 20 if not top 10 adventure games of all time. Also why isn’t there a sequel? 

I really loved the puzzles in the room where you get the glasses. Ever so close yet so far. It is classic toon humor

I just finished finding the carecrow an outfit. It took seven tries. My favorite refusal was the Bishop’s costume, which the carecrow refused because he thought it was for a woman. I also think he would have looked cute as Santa Claus, but apparently it wasn’t to be. I’m glad he got to enjoy the correct costume. For one perfect second in time before the deluge of evil.

I’ve been using the hole. It hasn’t actually been useful yet, as it’s made the trips longer rather than shorter, but it’s entertaining.

I watched the credits and was surprised to see this:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game story described as a screenplay before. Apparently, that’s how the writers thought of it at the time. They assumed they were creating a feature-length cartoon with puzzle-based interactions in it.

SoccerDude28 - 01 April 2015 02:06 PM

And… I finished the game. Turns out after the portion I was stuck in, I didn’t have much left to do. This game is one of the biggest surprises for me. I think it ranks in my top 20 if not top 10 adventure games of all time. Also why isn’t there a sequel? 

If the 2nd half had been nearly as entertaining as the first, it may have made my top 50.

I don’t know why it faded so badly. It was like they changed the development team halfway through. Or maybe a dark castle could never live up to bright and sunny Cutopia.

Oscar - 02 April 2015 12:01 AM

SoccerDude28 - 01 April 2015 02:06 PM

And… I finished the game. Turns out after the portion I was stuck in, I didn’t have much left to do. This game is one of the biggest surprises for me. I think it ranks in my top 20 if not top 10 adventure games of all time. Also why isn’t there a sequel? 

If the 2nd half had been nearly as entertaining as the first, it may have made my top 50.

I don’t know why it faded so badly. It was like they changed the development team halfway through. Or maybe a dark castle could never live up to bright and sunny Cutopia.

I liked the second part, smaller but it had more interesting puzzles and a clearer goal instead of collecting 12 random objects. And it still has lots of cutscenes.

I’m with Wilco on this one. I thought the second part was more focused and the puzzles were more clever. I do believe that the ending was rushed though after the longest mid-game cut scene in adventure history (I bet it would win the Guinness World Record for that ).

The first part actually turned me off playing the game the first time around. It was too vague and obscure at the very beginning of the game, tasking me with finding 11 random items. I had no idea what to be looking for, and was just going through the motions. I got stuck not knowing how to get to Zanydu and gave up on it. It wasn’t until I tried things at random in the cutifier, and found a match that things started to make sense. After that, it was really fun trying to look for stuff that matched their counterpart (especially when play on words were used.)

Edit: I did feel the ending was rushed though. There was no big encounter with King Hugh or Nefarious, and it just threw me back in the real world before taking care of them.

diego - 02 April 2015 02:34 PM

I also love first part more than the second, but I don’t think it took anything from the overall game enjoyment - simply because of one reason: When I first played the game, and after that long cutscene, I was expecting the game to end. To my amazement, I found out it’s only middle of the game, and everything came as a bonus.

That’s because the second part doesn’t have king hugh in it, isn’t it?

I think it was a mistake taking away Flux. His quips were the funniest part of the game. During the second half I forgot Flux even existed and I was thinking ‘something’s missing, this feels different’. I know they needed an incentive but saving the real king would have been enough. Or they could have had us save Flux quickly and then get on to stopping the malevolator.

The cutifier puzzle was fantastic, though I never needed to figure out what item I needed to obtain until I had everything, except with the sole. I kept thinking ‘what goes with heart?’ until it struck me.

Oscar - 02 April 2015 08:45 PM

The cutifier puzzle was fantastic, though I never needed to figure out what item I needed to obtain until I had everything, except with the sole. I kept thinking ‘what goes with heart?’ until it struck me.

There was also spit and polish, where spit was not the act of spitting but rather the skewer.

I just finished the cutifier puzzle. The part I was stuck on was the bells. I kept putting “whistles” first in the phrase and nothing was surfacing that would work.

I loved the long video after the puzzle was complete. So good to see my judgment of Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun’s character was not amiss. She is now even more intriguing.

I am discovering a sneaking desire to see Nefarious win. Or maybe Drew could take over for him as the chief villain.

I’m enjoying Nefarious’ palace(?) quite a lot. Wreaking havoc (or wrecking for short) is so satisfying. I’ve outwitted the carnivorous fish and the carnivorous plant and the carnivorous crocodiles (not that it was that difficult with the crocodiles). I now need to outwit a carnivorous mammal, and I’ll have the animal/plant kingdom covered. Is Nefarious carnivorous, I wonder? I’ll bet Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun is.

I was surprised to hear so much classical music in this game, and then I remembered that a lot of the earlier cartoons used classical music as background. Maybe the music here is a reference to that.