Scummathon 2008 Progress!
May 2nd, 2008

Almost 2 weeks have passed since I vowed to play all the old Scumm games I loved…and guess what….

I’ve completed 2!!!

First up was Flight of the Amazon Queen, a game about Joe King, pilot for hire and his adventures in the amazon jungle.

I was eager to play FOTAQ because it was one of the only SCUMM games I played that I never completed. This eagerness coupled with a foggy memory lead me it seems to build this up to be something better than it is.

The voiceovers are bordering on diabolical, initially funny due to their crapness but after a while, it just gets annoying. They talk really slowly so any joke in the game falls flat on it’s arse. That and the ending is well….shit.

It did have one golden moment, right at the beginning of the game when a gorilla blocks your path. After attempting banana based negotiations you open a dialogue with regards to the Gorilla’s home, Africa, and in particular that they’re in South America. Having realised this, the gorilla buggers off!

Now for something a lot better. Beneath a Steel Sky.

This game is a fucking cracker, brilliant intro, great voiceovers, awesome jokes, fantastic story, beautifully animated. I’d forgotton pretty much everything about it, but loved it to death. It was such a refreshing change from FOTAQ, it had depth, soul and humour.

The games concerns a castaway called Robert Foster who is forcibly taken from his adoptive family in the gap, a village in the middle of nowhere, back to the city he was born in. On the journey back the transport he is aboard crashes and you are left to figure out why you’ve been brought back.

I could go on for a while about the great characters, the quality puzzles, brilliant jokes and awesome story, but I’d rather you played it and enjoyed this for yourself, you can get the game free at Scummvm.org, please play it.

Golden moments? So many, but I think my favourite has to be dog acrobatics (also make sure you check out Robert’s jumper).

Next on the list is Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis….time to get that darwinian nightmare out of my way.

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