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Downloaded (after buying of course) both this and Primordia today. I haven’t been able to make a choice yet as to which I want to play first. 

Quite a few adventure releases recently, and I’m not starved for choice.

Played the German version and thought it sucked big time. Sadly, I don’t think it was just the voice acting.

TBoUT was fantastic, by the way.

Wow. I just bought this game today and already finished it(5+ hours). Too short and too easy for the price imho. I didn’t even need a walkthrough. But it was nice while it lasted I guess.

Dag - 05 December 2012 04:57 PM

Could you elaborate a bit on this? How was it not up to par with TBOUT? I normally don’t pay much attention to comments simply stating that something “sucks”, but the fact that you liked TBOUT and not this one had me worried.

Well,
for one thing the game focuses on Nate and the Critter, my two least favorite characters from the original. The little guy and the elven girl don’t even have cameo appearances, if I remember correctly (though I must admit, it has been a while and my memory is patchy).

Where TBoUT had my sides hurting with laughter, TCC had me cringing and rolling my eyes. The jokes were just lame and uninspired—I guess the devs had already burned through every possible pop culture reference by the end of TBoUT.

The puzzles were expectedly easy and the game’s length didn’t help either (though in this case, I guess I should actually be thankful for its brevity).

Finally, a big turn off for me personally was the voice work. I had played the English version of TBoUT and thought it was spot on; the German version of TCC is just sad… (Native speaker of German here, by the way). Before you ask, nah, I didn’t bother looking at the German dub of TBoUT.

Dag - 05 December 2012 05:43 PM

I desperately WANT this game to be good, you see

Hah, so did I. But do keep us posted once you make some headway into the game. It’d be interesting to read what others think about it.

I can’t keep up anymore. Too many games. But I want to play this!

The puzzles in BOUT were such a chore. The story was fun and the jokes were usually funny, but I got the impression the way they went about making the game was to pen a story first, and then fill it with obstacles to be passed by collecting whatever the game lets you collect, combining whatever the game lets you combine and then using your remaining inventory items on whatever the game decides they should be used on. I always wanted to move the game along but found myself faced with the task of finding an object to combine with something else to fix a random item that was only there in the first place to block my progress.

If Critter Chronicles is no better, I doubt I’ll like it much without a good story like BOUT’s. The fact it has “normal” and “hard” difficulty levels confirms the puzzles aren’t really integrated much at all.

Dag - 07 December 2012 09:53 AM

Oscar - 07 December 2012 08:09 AM

The fact it has “normal” and “hard” difficulty levels confirms the puzzles aren’t really integrated much at all.

Curse of Monkey Island also has “normal” and “hard” settings, I don’t understand how that’s proof that the puzzles arent’t integrated to the story.

I thought that was obvious. Changing the puzzles to make the game harder or easier says to me the way the game was originally constructed doesn’t really matter. The story should be written with the puzzles in mind, not as a story + puzzles.