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Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths

aka: Tony Tough e la notte delle falene abbrustolite, Tony Tough i Noc Pieczonych śCiem, Tony Vočko a případ růžového tapíra
Moby ID: 7659

Windows version

Nice, nothing more

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.

by suchiaruzu (4) on January 6, 2005

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