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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Once Upon A Jester
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 07:52:45 -0700
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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:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> * 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You've got two days to decide. It's free on GOG until then.
>>
>> I love Adventure Time, reminds me of my early D&D days.
>>
>> I also loved this game too, here's what I had to say about it:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Since it's free, get it, play it,
>>
> 
> 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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