Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island

Pretty much unplayable, which is too bad, since I think there may be a half decent game buried somewhere under the awful quality of life of the presentation (though at best highly derivative of Monkey Island and unoriginal in its setting) First, graphically it is a disaster. It only allows archaic, CRT-era 1990's resolutions. Forget 1080 or 1440 or even 720. Not a single widescreen resolution is allowed. So it looks just terrible and runs badly since it's so out of synch with the desktop resolution of any monitor made in the last 20 years. That would be fine if this were a really old, classic game, but in this case it makes absolutely no sense. The game isn't that old at all. It came out in 2009. Nobody was still using CRT's in 2009. FFS, Half Life 2 came out in 2004! Second, and what really made me quit and uninstall more than the awful graphics/resolution was the inability to skip anything. You can't skip through ANY dialogue. And the characters blab on and on. Clicking on any random clickable object in a screen gets you at least three lines of slowly delivered, pointlessly wordy descriptive dialogue. You also can't skip or speed up character movement. No double click to change scenes. Every time you do change a scene, you usually need to first wait maybe 5 seconds looking at a black screen. For a primitive looking game like this, the slow scene by scene loading makes no sense. Then when the screen loads, the character usually slowly ambles halfway into it before you get back control. So after sitting through the black screen, you sit there watching them pointlessly walking for another 5 or 10 seconds and can't skip this or make them hurry up. Being forced to listen to all the pointless dialogue start to finish and how long it was taking on top of that just to move around the game world, I ran out of patience to keep trying to play very quickly.

Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island is an attempt at a thematic ripoff of the Monkey Island theme of point and click comedy pirate adventure games. On the plus side, this is a serious attempt at making a video game, and it's not terrible, but there's some deep flaws. Resolution is locked and can't be changed. You can choose between 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions, but this is somewhat bizarre considering the 2015 launch date... exactly who did they think was using a monitor from the 1990's in 2015 that they designed this game to cater to them? A strange development choice for sure. Because the resolution is locked, and the assets aren't of high resolution, everything looks blurry, and low quality. Likewise, the story is plodding and painfully unamusing. There's no skip dialogue option, so you have to put up with the poor dialogue whether you like it or not. It's apparent little to no playtesting took place before this was published. The mediocre quality, technical limitations, and over optimistic $10 USD price tag (more than you can get Monkey Island for) prevent me from recommending this.

The game would be interesting enough, but it's ruined by waiting. Either because there is some weird black screen right after going to another room, or because you have to watch your character move across a room, or, most annoyingly, because you can't skip any text apparently. Every time you examine something - and you do that a lot - the character will actually speak the text you can read. So far so good, a nice voice-over is always welcome. However, any well designed game should offer the option to SKIP the voice-over. I probably could read the text a dozen times while the character is still droning on about it. As nice as the voices are, after a while I don't need to listen to them every time - especially if it's something I've heard several times already. To confound that problem, the puzzles are not necessarily something you'd call obvious, so you need to try a lot of stuff - and have to listen to the characters over and over again. If you've got lot of patience and time - go ahead, try it. The graphics are quite nice, the voices are alright. It's really mainly the UI that kills it.

언제적게임인지 시작부터 4:3화면비를 반겨주는지 모르겟음.. 그리고 와 포인트앤드클릭게임의 단점을 전부가지고잇음 포인트앤클릭게임은 말그대로 클릭을 무지많이해야하기때문에 여기저기 누르는데 이동하는데 한세월 스킵없이 말하는대로 한세월 아니 안녕 도라! 플레이하는것도아니고 저걸 조사해봐야지 터벅터벅걸어서 이동->스킵안되는 대사 이것저것 조사하고 쓸데없는소리까지 들어야하는데 한번 들은건 빠르게 스킵해주면안됨? 그냥 하지마세요

Hey there! A a fan of Point n Click games, i got to say that i really enjoyed that one. Its an easy game with easy puzzles. There was a few bugs along the way but i was able to easily get thru, one thing that is great is that it auto-saves for you! I did really felt the monkey island vibe, i also did the duke grabovski game that i liked as well!

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I very much enjoyed this game. Some laugh out loud moments. Great voice acting. It's really good how the creators blended the older style painted backgrounds with 3D characters. Some of the humour reminds me of Broken Sword and Monkey Island, very witty but may seem a little sexist in places. Took quite a bit of trial and error but that's no bad thing as a lot of the responses when you get things wrong are quite varied and amusing. The game is not too short and not overly long. Took me about 7 hours, only resorting to a walkthrough about 4 or 5 times when I thought I'd exhausted all other possibilities. Essential Tips: - Holding TAB shows all interactive areas on screen. - Double clicking on a screen exit (i.e. when the skeleton hand is visible) jumps you to that screen, saving you the time of waiting for your character to amble to that screen location first. - Sometimes you need to click on an item in your inventory and then on one of the other 2 playable characters in your inventory to solve a puzzle. The other characters sometimes give you hints or essential information needed to progress when you do this. (The game was likely released with a printed manual originally but these things are not explained in the game itself.) But now you know, so no worries! Someone wrote they had issues getting the game to run but I personally had no issues on Windows 10. Other reviews complain about waiting on a black screen or waiting for the voice actors to finish speaking because they read faster than the text. I probably only noticed the screen staying black for a short time on a couple of occasions and probably only because I'd read that review! I can't say I noticed the voices taking a long time to finish because I enjoyed them. The text trees in this game are simpler than Monkey Island and there are probably fewer of them, you won't get stuck trying to pick the exact correct order of comments/questions, which in my opinion is a good thing. If you like the old school point and clicks then you should definitely give this one a shot. I enjoyed it quite a lot.

A fairly decent point and click game with pretty decent graphics and animations and ok voice acting spoiled by a lacking storyline and bad jokes. Still if you get it cheaply like I did then it's well worth playing of you like theses types of games. It shows what Lucas arts adventure games could have been like if they had continued making them.

Very funny game with really amusing characters. Though its not always clear what has to be done to complete a scene, but with a bit of trial and error you get there. Graphics are good..

Game doesn't get past the first loading screen. Tried all the different solutions mentioned in community hub and discussions to no avail.