Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner

Childhood game

Finally after all these years... I finished the game and saw the ending :') Its the game of my childhood and it was way ahead of its time, even tho dialogues now are a bit too silly, but I still laughed a lot of times. The attention to details is amazing and soundtrack is so climatic. I fully recommend!

Tja, knapp drei Stunden habe ich durchgehalten. Wild-West-Charme? Ja, sicher. Aber sobald die Dollar aus waren, war auch meine Motivation dahin. Kein Plan, wie es weitergehen sollte – und ehrlich gesagt, wollte ich’s auch nicht mehr wissen. Vielleicht was für Hardcore-Western-Fans, aber ich bin dann mal weitergeritten. 🌵

Pros -Basic but pleasant graphics. I thought some of the faces could have done with more texture but I think this was the style they were going for. It reminded me of some earlier telltale point and clicks such as bone out of boneville and tales of monkey island (game-play was similar enough to those titles as well.) - Puzzle design was mostly fine and as expected for this genre, I recognized a few nods to other games such as Sid Meyers pirates and broken sword. A few gotchas such as a character may have asked for something earlier in the game but the game and dialog options for the character never remind you. - Funny dialog and some hilarious animated sequences. - Decent voice acting. - Solid performance (with one caveat, see cons about settings bug) - Story was kind of bonkers but that's almost part in parcel for this genre. -Press END to skip dialog, cut-scene. Cons - The inventory interface works fine but is not really optimized for the amount of items you will pick up. Scrolling is super slow. - Some settings quirks; when I started up the game it seemed to be locked to 24fps. The next time I started the game I was getting 120fps (and the game actually looked better) However after opening and closing the settings screen the game dropped down to 60fps and then opening and the closing the settings screen once more the game dropped back down to 24fps. Restarting again and It was back to 120fps. Not sure what was happening but I'd suggest not opening the settings if you can avoid it. - Some pathing issues, where the character wouldn't go where intended or tell you they couldn't get there, like they just weren't able to walk around the open door or cupboard. - Character seemed to disappear a couple of times but was still in the scene. They eventually came back again after continuing playing. -First person camera used for checking something in finer detail could behave strangely; sometimes the character would randomly turn in a different direction before showing the first person view. - The game is artificially slowed down with resource requirements i.e. there are carrots needed for traveling to different areas and money needed to buy items or complete puzzles to progress the game. You can grow or buy carrots and you find money inside various drawers and closets in the game. You can also get some money from completing some puzzles/tasks. The carrots seem novel and even fun at first but quickly become tedious. The money is not an issue in late game as you will eventually get a lot of it but it can be a real struggle early game because you might spend it on the wrong things and find it difficult to progress. HINT sending telegraphs seem to be good way to make some early money but the game arguably doesn't make that very clear and regardless you may have spent all of your money before you locate the telegraph office and you require some initial money in order to send telegraphs. - Some of the actions taken by the main character will have you question whether they are actually the hero of the story; lots of lying and stealing going on and the whole "plan" you conceive is morally dubious. - No option to show all hotspots as far as I know. - While you can press end to skip dalog, there is no option to skip travel and teleport to the end location as far as I know. So you are stuck with slowly walking across some of scenes

nostalgie :)

Nostalgia

cool game