Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Once Upon A Jester Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 07:52:45 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <6rjedj1spgq7d260ajovb1goedng11nf2b@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:52:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="56cfbf2135be8886b1bf6d39c91ee4bc"; logging-data="915017"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194rVAoWa8+HbcU99kXilQd" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:0e03d0X+ECZa7TnOGUsBeM+0ZyI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3578 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 -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.