by: Kyriakos Hasapis
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What to say about Robert
Redford Saves the Day, by Kyriakos Hasapis. Robert Redford
Saves the Day [from here on out will be named RR1, it being
the first of the finished three] is quite unique in it's humour.
So let's just get on with the review and I'll tell ya why.
RR is your standard sierra
style adventure game, walk icons and talk icons and all that
lovely stuff. So we have no problems there. Even Kyriakos's
humour makes it into the GUI, and everyone loves it when the
standard GUI gets changed.
I enjoyed the puzzles in
RR. They weren't too hard and they weren't too easy and they
made sense, well as much sense as can be made from them but
I'll talk about that later. The puzzles were also quite humorous
and I giggled at a few of them.
The graphics of RR are
pretty good with a bunch of nice animations. Robert Redford's
walking animation is the star attraction for me of all them.
The nice thing about this game is that, like many other amateur
adventure games, it doesn't rely on the narrator to explain
the action that just took place. Kyriakos just gives you an
animation actually showing you what happens, which I like
[The man in the airport is a good example of this].
Now we get to the good
part: the story. Robert Redford is on a mission from God to
help a kitty out of a tree. Robert Redford is angry because
everyone keeps calling him Robert Redford when he is obviously
not Robert Redford. None the less, Robert Redford goes about
his task issued to him by God and meets many interesting and
lovely people.
This is just part one in
the series, part two and three are also available to download.
The author calls RR1 the "experimental" episode, saying that
he used the first one to learn how to work it all out graphically
and script wise, learning to use the engine and all that technical
stuff. That doesn't mean that RR1 is bad in anyway, it's just
the beginning.
So to sum up RR1, if you're
looking for an off the wall game with a wonderful sense of
humour and plenty of posters to look at, than choose Robert
Redford Saves the Day.
eric
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