Theropods

I played the original flash game version on Newgrounds back in 2015. It was pretty fun back then. Though I wish they brought back the Witch Doctor from the first game (I think the part towards the end is a reference. But it's not quite the same). My only real complaint is that whenever I got stuck, I resorted to clicking on almost everything (Moreso on the map with the Triceratops). Other than that, it's a good game with a charming story & ending.

This game is a scam, definitely not worth 15€ more like 5€. For a 20k € budget (kickstarter) and 7 years of (alleged) development, this is absolutely horrendous. The music is nice but that's about it. The art is not bad but not somewhat amazing either, it's decent at most. Also there's this annoying motion blur that you cant turn off so when anything moves its blurry even thought its just pixels. Horrible. The game is super short, I did it in like 2 hours, some people even faster, the puzzles are confusing because items keep spawning in areas you already were in, and the hitboxes often don't work so you get confused because you already tried the thing but it just didn't work. Overall I can't recommend this, was hyped by the trailer but the story is pretty bland and it feels rushed. It also seems like they scrapped a lot of content shown on kickstarter, or they just made it up so people were more hyped. Also on their kickstarter they say "An adventure game full of dinosaurs!" while there's like 5 dinos, out of only one appears more than once. What a joke. For 7 years and 20k I'd expect way more than this, feels more like a school project than a finished product to be honest. SPOILER ALERT Also the devs botched the alien because basically like in the third level it gets revealed it's not really an alien but just some woman from another planet or whatever. Why? And in the end the woman just stays with the tribe instead of looking for her son and husband or whatever the story was. Wtf? I honestly believe the devs wanted to do more but run out of ideas or just simply lost the passion for the thing and rushed it so it's complete.

Juego sencillo de corte clásico point and click que cuenta una historia sobre la amistad y la pérdida en la prehistoria, pero sin palabras. Tiene un buen pixel art acompañado de una buena banda sonora y puzles muy intuitivos, por lo que se hace muy ameno de jugar. Alrededor de 2 horas de duración que la verdad se pasan en un suspiro.

I have mixed feelings about this game. It looks decent. The pixel art is sometimes cute. The story is very basic. It is basically the Primal series but without the dino companion, and it is less bloody. Less, but still bloody. Don't get fooled by the charming aesthetics. This game is not PG-13. Your mum is eaten in front of you, your village is massacred almost in front of you, your friend is almost eaten in front of you, and some minor child abuse just to top all of that. The game design is lazy. You are always presented with a new area to solve, but the puzzles are repetitive; there are not many clues, so you brute-force most of them. A lot of them are timed, which is frustrating. Also, sometimes you have to click multiple times on the same thing just to see the result. I think that is because the game is short. It is only 2- 2.5 h long and needed some padding to make it longer. At least they leave out the red herrings. But at this price, I expected more. Still, I can recommend this on sale. It was an interesting experience. For the Woof achievment: [spoiler] At the beggining of the game, after the old lady drop her vaze, greet multiple time the apple eating sitting man next to her until the dog appear [/spoiler] [quote]Follow us for more [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45113328-Awesome-Adventure-Friends/] Awesome Adventures![/url] [/quote]

Kısa sürede tükenen ve tatmin edici deneyim veren bu tarz point and click oyunlara ihtiyacımız var gerçekten. Açıkçası ben zaman zaman, böyle tek oturuşta bitireceğim oyunlar arıyorum. Bu deneyimi seviyorum. Theropods'da bu türün güzel bir örneği. Ama biraz kafamı karıştıran, beni düşündüren bir eksiklikten bahsetmek istiyorum. Bölümler sanki fazla basit ve çeşitlilik yok gibi. Yani bölümleri tamamlamanın bence birden fazla yolu olmalı bu oyunlarda. Seçenekler çok olmalı. Çünkü siz bölümleri geçmeye çalışırken aldığınız bir eşyanın etkileşimini sağ sola tıklayarak bulmaya çalışıyorsunuz ve bunları denerken bile hop bölüm tamamlanıyor. Bölümü geçiyorsunuz ama bölümü anlamadan, sadece "denerken". Ben şahsen bu tür oyunlarda biraz daha farklı yollar görmeyi tercih ederim. Bulduğum eşyaları farklı eşyalarla kombine etme veya sahnede yaptığımız denemelerin farklı sonuçları doğurması gibi şeyler deneyimimizi kesinlikle olumlu etkileyecektir. Sonuçta sahne sahne tasarlanan bu oyunlarda ufak alternatiflerin yapımcıları çok zorlayacağını düşünmüyorum. "Bir hareketiniz oyunu değiştirecek" gibi şeyler de beklemiyoruz sonuçta.

Wonderful game ! I loved everything, the VOs, the story, the chars and environment, gameplay .. found it intuitive as well as inspiring. Highly recommended to all adventurers and lovers of this genre !

Full disclosure, I am a Kickstarter backer of this charming little point and click game. All that said, Theropods is a far cry from games like Unavowed, Monkey Island or even Darkside Detective. It's baby's first point and click. A one and done game that took me 3 hours to complete. The two main solutions are, do a thing 3 times or do thing within time window. The latter wouldn't be so bad if the inventory didn't take up most of the screen. There were times where I knew what to do and was correct but had to frantically click as the game just wouldn't acknowledge the input being made. This often led to the "I've already tried that and it did nothing" moment only to spend many frustrating minutes trying other things to only then try it again, this time more aggressively, and it would work. Outside of that the story is shallow and predictable. The only moment of interest was a bait and switch that kept things in the realm of boring predictability. [spoiler] The Alien turns out to not be an alien but a black woman with the classic "lesbian" haircut. [/spoiler] Not sure why they did this but it was a dumb move with something that could've been so much more but the creators lack any real imagination. I would not recommend even if you do like point and click, there are so many more worthy of your time.