Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths

The Good
I loved the cartoon layout of this game, and I especially loved the humour - toilet and black. Tony Tough was extremely funny, and the puzzles were great too. You get to choose between Easy mode and Hard, obviously I chose Easy but it was fun and witty never-the-less. The character lines within Tony Tough had me in hysterics all night long, and the animations within the game were of a very high standard. I think I preferred this game to Grim Fandango.

The Bad
Well, with most adventure games, you have to scroll through the dialogues for clues etc. to help you, in Tony Tough's case, I'm sure half of these dialogues were to waste your time, even though some were quite funny. One hint in the game is to not listen to the poems the caged monkey has to say, they go on forever. Another thing I didn't like was the map that you used to get around...It was extremely difficult to see where you are going!! This defeats the purpose of even having a map!

The Bottom Line
I recommend this game to any Adventure Point-and Click game lover. It is extremely entertaining with it's puzzles, jokes and incessant mocking of the protagonist, Tony Tough. I recommend it for people over the age of 16 though, some of the lines and scenes content is rather suggestive...

The Good
-the German version had great voice actors (such as Monty Arnold, comedian)

-some of the jokes are funny (especially the one-liners when he does not want to do what you told him to or examine objects) and the hyperintelligent lingo he talks in

-the interface works quite good (there are not too many options though - just "look" and "manipulate")

-the comic style looks nice (while simplistic at times, a lot of effort was made here)

-one or two good puzzles (like using a frozen earthworm as a lockpick - nice twist on the "open door locked from other side"-puzzle also found in Simon The Sorcerer)

-succeeds in displaying a character even nerdier than the target audience

The Bad
-most puzzles are completely illogical (remember how you had to "cook" a voodoo soup in the original Monkey Island? Well, they have something similar here. But while a jolly roger (pirate flag) can be logically connected to a "pressed human skull", Tony Tough has you use feces for coffee. The line used to explain this is "coffee is just dirty water anyway" - which would have helped BEFORE finding the solution by using every single item)

-most of the jokes are outright stupid - or worse, such feeble attempts at being funny that you laugh anyway. After solving a particularly illogical puzzle, Tony comments "I have solved harder puzzles before. Like that puzzle, "age 3 and above" only took me four months"

-the story is rather weird (spoof of all those "Halloween Killer"-movies)

-"antialiasing"-option just blurs characters' outline (reminiscent of "3 Skulls of the Toltecs")

-dialogues going on forever, trying to be funny - but failing

The Bottom Line
Nice, though often illogical, comic adventure. Personally, I would not recommend it to anyone, but that is just a personal opinion - maybe I am just too demanding. At least they are keeping the genre alive. The title has absolutely nothing to do with the game, by the way.