Normality

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Description

Kent Knutson is a teenager who lives in the city of Neutropolis. The city is controlled by a totalitarian regime, which prohibits people to express any emotions that would deviate from the prescribed norm - such as joy and happiness. Kent is arrested by the Norms, the police force of Neutropolis, and put in prison for whistling a merry tune. In prison, he received an anonymous note that tells him that there is a resistance group somewhere in the city, which seeks to overthrow the dictator of Neutropolis. The question is - how can Kent find that resistance group?..

Normality is an adventure game done entirely in 3D, similarly to Under a Killing Moon, though with more colorful, cartoon-like visuals. Besides the somewhat unusual (for the genre) engine, the game plays like a traditional puzzle-solving adventure, primarily relying on manipulation of objects Kent is able to pick up and put in his inventory.

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Alternate Titles

• "נורמליטי" -- Hebrew spelling
• "Normality Inc." -- Working title

Part of the Following Group

• 2.5D Engine: True 3D

User Reviews

Anything but a normal adventure game!	DOS	Zovni (10646)
Underrated Adventure Game with some of the best puzzles around	DOS	SamandMax (78)
A welcome change from the usual point and click adventure games	DOS	Pix (1221)
Normality? Don't you mean Weirdality	DOS	Icarus Lytton (23)
Stay Normal!	DOS	Big C (58)

Critic Reviews

Pelit	DOS	Jun, 1996	92 out of 100	92
Score	DOS	Apr, 1996	9 out of 10	90
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jul, 1996	88 out of 100	88
PC Action	DOS	Jul, 1996	86 out of 100	86
Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Jun, 1996	82 out of 100	82
PC Joker	DOS	Aug, 1996	80 out of 100	80
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	DOS	Mar, 2002		80
Power Play	DOS	Jul, 1996	77 out of 100	77
Computer Games Magazine	DOS	1996		70
GameBoomers	DOS	2004	C	50

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Trivia

Guess the developers weren't fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: In the sewer beneath the stadium there's a tunnel near the elevator exit that takes you to a small dead end with a special rat standing atop some pizza boxes and surrounded by four hopping, masked turds. Their names? "King Rat" and the "Ninja Turds".

Now that's subtlety for you!

Related Web Sites

• Hints for Normality (These hints give only the amount of help you need to solve each puzzle one at a time.)