Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise

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This is a weird one. Putt-Putt is a car in a world of cars. Freddi Fish is a talking fish beneath the sea, in a world also inhabited by Humans. However, Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise contains children's toys coming to life, in what can only be described as an ordinary, modern setting. It directly shows Humans, which is unusual for Humongous games. This is a surprisingly rude game too, compared to the then contemporary Putt-Putt games 'Putt-Putt Joins the Parade' and 'Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon'. I mean this in terms of the puzzles. For instance, to get to the basement you have to interact not once but twice with a chute in the bathroom. There are letters you need to collect, but they can be scattered in some pretty ridiculous spots, AND they can be located in places you've already looked, which I think is probably a no-no, since it makes it more confusing, especially considering the logic of their placement is just non-existent (they can be found inside a fish tank, or inside the fridge for example.) The piano minigame stands out as a kind of surprisingly advanced thing, it's sort of like a very primitive Mario Paint where you can basically compose music for the game to play back to you. I think it would have been nice too if you could also maybe even learn to play piano, by it showing you what the notes for the keys are and such, but that might have been too much. It's cute enough that you can make the game play various little tunes and compose your own for it to play for you - though I pity any adult forced to endure some of the awful sounds this game can make, since you can set the piano to playback in a variety of very annoying sounds including a 'hammer drop' sound effect. Also, Putt-Putt's dog Pep is inexplicably in this game? I mean, this dog also has a big spot on his back, so maybe that's meant to be the decisive difference between them, but I think if you're a child or just anyone sensible, you'll look at both of these pixelated brown dogs and say, hey, that's the same one. Maybe they had trouble coming up with a different design that looked friendly and cute, and just decided to reuse this one. There's WAY more objectives than in any of the other games that I've played, but most of the things you need to look for in this game, you just find in the kitchen, you just open the cupboards and the fridge and you click on things. The location of the sugar seems like the one concession to making this a normal 90s point and click adventure game, because it's in a weird place unlike everything else which is kind of just right there where you need it. There's the letters too, in the sense that they really have no reason to be found where you find them. I think this game is surprisingly ugly too? Both of the first Putt-Putt games look much nicer than this one. I think it might be because of the weird decor of the house, and the lack of variety there is sort of disappointing, and unpleasant. This is not a terrible game, but it's on the lower end of things, so maybe go check out some of the Putt-Putt games or the Freddi Fish games instead. I still would recommend it, but only barely.

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Although I think it is way too overpriced, it is still a charming little kids game.

7/10 Fun little sandbox edutainment P&C adventure game. The nighttime atmosphere is fun.

I mean, I enjoyed the game all right, I guess, and I spent a fair amount of time at the piano playing Mary Had a Little Lamb and genuinely making an attempt to get it right, because I kept repeatedly messing up at the end part where it's supposed to go 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, and I kept hitting 1, 2, 3 to start with instead so I had to mentally yell at myself that it was wrong and that I had to take it from the top until it was flawless. I guess I found this entry in the Humongous line to be a little more difficult than the last one, and I still somehow miraculously managed to complete this one without a guide, but there were definitely times where I was wondering where all the letters I needed for the birthday sign were and didn't realize at first "Oh, this room that I thought was one screen actually has a subscreen in it and the letter is only visible on the subscreen", or I didn't know where the bulletin board was when they insisted to me it was right there, or where the balloons were, and honestly, is there just something wrong with me at this point? This isn't that hard. But anyway, I thought the departure from Putt Putt's themes of parental abandonment towards more of a dysfunctional family dynamic in Fatty Bear was an unexpected change, but I suppose I can understand why they felt the need not to repeat themselves, and this next point isn't super important, but going into this game blind, I guess I kind of expected today to be Fatty Bear's birthday and not some random kid's, so that's kind of a disappointment. Anyway, I do sort of question whether I should give this a thumbs up or down, but I gave the last game a thumbs up and it's the same sort of thing where ultimately this is just a kids' game and I shouldn't take it too seriously, and more than that, my mommy did give me a juice box earlier today and I would kind of like to go drink that (though I really should probably save it for dinner later, but whatever, I won't tell if you don't), so I guess it's just easier to do what I did last time and not worry about it too much, so, yeah, thumb up, I guess.

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I never grew up with this one, so I don't have any sugar coating nostalgia bias to give it. I think it is a bit clunky and slow but overall it still has that Humongous Entertainment charm to it, not a bad game by any stretch of the word. For other HE fans, I think they at least have to try it

What a surprise!

Nice kids adventure and cozy adult adventure