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The reason I’m prolonging the official deadline a few days more is because we still have some active players! (including yours truly Gamemaster - I’m stuck at Ray’s crate - I totally forgot how’s it opened. Well, I think I’m missing an item…)

Also, the gargoyle puzzle was great. It’s my second favorite next to the clock puzzle in Zanydu.

Becky - 01 April 2015 10:57 PM

I just finished finding the carecrow an outfit. It took seven tries.

Hehe… I still don’t know how we’re supposed to guess exactly which costume is the right one based on Carecrow’s description. It’s one of the more far-fetched puzzles in game, but still a fun one.

Becky - 01 April 2015 10:57 PM

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.

The hole would have been useful, if it wasn’t for the right click for quick screen exit. (well, apart from the tedious Cutopia forest/B.B. Wolf’s transition where you need to walk the entire screen every time). Actually, I remember even when I played Toonstruck shortly after it was released that I thought it’s ahead of its time in terms of a comfortable interface - it certainly wasn’t the first to do any of those things, but it packed it all together - smart cursor, skipping the line of a dialogue, quick exits…

Lady Kestrel - 27 March 2015 10:22 PM

You can take your time repeating the sequence.  Although it wasn’t that difficult, I took the time to draw a clown’s head and number the parts as I went along.

Hehe… why I haven’t thought of this? There’s a Serbian proverb, that roughly translates as: A smart man writes it down; a fool remembers.

Becky - 04 April 2015 12:46 PM

So good to see my judgment of Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun’s character was not amiss.

Yeah, that was a spot on! (but I didn’t want to tell you you’re right at the time )

Becky - 13 April 2015 10:31 AM

I finished the game. Did anyone else get a note from Snout?

No, I didn’t.  Both times I got captured I gave him a bad allergic reaction and just left him near the cell.  What did the note say?

I spent quite a bit of time figuring out the gargoyle puzzle.  I realized fairly early that I had to sneak up on the right one, but then I kept trying to grab the horn instead of the head.

I finally had some time to play again. I’m now out of the wolf’s lair and looking for the pieces for the cutifier (so I’m well behind).

I can’t believe how good this game is! I’m smiling at most of the lines, laughing out loud at most of the cutscenes, enjoying the dialogues and voice acting, and I’m loving the (cartoony) logic of the puzzles - they’re well thought-out and make sense to me.

I haven’t felt this rewarded with cutscenes for progress in a long time. And the cutscenes are brilliant! I had a great time with the WACME product demonstrations, Ahnold Jim’s acrobatics and the entire “rolling pot” cutscene in the wolf’s lair. Christopher Lloyd’s expressions while flexing his muscles are a hoot as well.
And I love the puns! “Taking the ‘Jim’ out of ‘gymnasium’” had me in stitches. And all the sexual innuendo in the barn (both pre- and post-malification) is genius!

I’m seriously regretting not picking up this game 20 years ago. If this game keeps this up, it’s a strong candidate for my all-time top 10.

It’s also been a while since I last took notes during a game (last time was the Obsidian CPT, probably). It’s been necessary for the phone numbers and for the answers to the (changing ) quiz questions.

Heck, the only negative comments I have so far is that the cutscenes aren’t subtitled, that the puzzle to fix the “elephant tram” to Zanydu contains logic I can’t follow and that it took me a while to bake the bread as I wanted to combine the spit and dough in my inventory instead of just leaving the spit on its rest and using the dough on that...

Top game so far, and probably definitely the closest thing to an actual ‘toon’ I’ve ever played!

Great, Tim, I’m glad there’re more players catching up as I’m late with the second part of the Malevolands characters (not to mention I haven’t finished it myself yet).

I’ll leave more comments later, but as for now:

SoccerDude28 - 01 April 2015 02:06 PM

This game is one of the biggest surprises for me.

TimovieMan - 14 April 2015 05:00 PM

I can’t believe how good this game is!

We did it, my dear Toonstruck brothers and sisters! Two more converted comrades!  

Seriously, it’s not been the most successful playthrough you’ll see in terms of number of players, but even one of these comments are surely to make any gamemaster more than happy! 

TimovieMan - 14 April 2015 05:00 PM

that the puzzle to fix the “elephant tram” to Zanydu contained logic I didn’t quite follow

Here’s the UHS copied solution, step by step:

Look at what the hands hold. 
One is empty.
The other holds a peanut.
This would obviously cause the elephant to walk towards it.
What might cause the elephant to walk away from it?
What is an elephant afraid of?
Mice.
Where have you had a run-in with a mouse?
The Irish pub.
How do I trap the mouse?
Take the mouse and put it in the left hand of the transportation device.
An unconscious mouse isn’t very scary to an elephant, so you are going to have to wake it up.
You need something pungent, and piercing to wake up the mouse.
Do you have anything pungent.  Possibly something that has a pungent odor?
The vegi-grow fertilizer is the most horrid smelling thing that you have. Use it on the mouse to wake him.

diego - 14 April 2015 05:39 PM

Here’s the UHS copied solution, step by step:

Yeah, in hindsight it makes cartoon sense, but I solved it by basically trying everything on everything - it felt random beforehand.