Re: FREE GAME: Once Upon A Jester

On 9/6/2024 2:07 AM, JAB wrote:

On 05/09/2024 19:51, Justisaur wrote:

On 9/3/2024 11:03 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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Another day, another freebie. I really was hoping somebody else would
announce this one though, since I'm not excited about it at all. Oh
well, beggars can't be choosers
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* Once Upon A Jester
https://www.gog.com/en/game/once_upon_a_jester
    I admit it; the main reason I dislike this one
    is the art style. It's got a primitive, almost
    surreal style similar to... oh, what's the cartoon
    called? "Adventure Time"; that's it. I really
    dislike it. Sure, it's judging a book by its cover,
    but video games are a visual medium and if the
    visuals are displeasing it's going to have a huge
    effect on my opinion on the rest of the game. Which
    is, apparently, a fairly standard -if charming and
    goofy- point-n-click adventure. I'm sure it's fine;
    it's just not for _me_. Maybe you'll like it more?
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You've got two days to decide. It's free on GOG until then.

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I love Adventure Time, reminds me of my early D&D days.
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I also loved this game too, here's what I had to say about it:
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This is a "Charming" game. I assume it's from an EU country based on the
accents, though I can't quite place them. You (easily) try to figure
out what the locals in a town want a play about, and then put on said
play with choices during the play and some challenges usually with
'press the button when the moving line is on the color on the meter'
games, which I had a lot of trouble with. I turned the difficulty down
to minimum, better but I still had trouble. I finished it in one day.
It felt like a college student theater/game project, it was a bit
bizarre, but fun.
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Since it's free, get it, play it,
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 The studio is based in Holland but the accent is quite strange as it sounds like it has quite an American twang to it and not instead the normal 'Dutch English' I would expect even though the Dutch are rather well know for having good English skills.

Well, they are a small country just across the Channel from the UK with whom they have historically decent relations.  :P
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