Walk The Frog

for now too much technical frustrations to be fully enjoyable: soft locks due to bugs, the way dialogs works is frustrating and can lead to false soft lock, and the worst NO STEAM CLOUD!

[h2]Cosy, heartwarming, and mildly hostile to anyone who just wants to go home.[/h2] Walk The Frog advertises itself as “cosy and heartwarming”. What I found was a trouser-wearing frog who simply wants to go home, only to be confronted by an apparently endless procession of creatures placing obstacles in his path. No wonder Froggo looks permanently pissed off and conducts most conversations through passive-aggressive remarks. He may be the most relatable amphibian since evolution dragged the first one onto land and it immediately regretted the decision. The graphics occupy that intriguing territory where it is impossible to tell whether they were deliberately kept simple or whether nobody had the budget for a good artist. Presumably they are meant to look cute; to me, they mostly look childish. The animations fare no better, recalling the one-two-three-sprite sequences of the Commodore 64 era, where after a while nobody could say with confidence whether the character was moving forwards, backwards, or merely suffering a minor neurological episode. The drag-and-drop placement puzzles are so undemanding that my cat could probably solve them, provided she first learned to operate a computer mouse rather than attempting to eat it. Between puzzles, the game supplies an astonishing quantity of dialogue. Fortunately, relentless clicking accelerates it, allowing Froggo and player alike to proceed with the grim business of getting this social interaction over with. What cannot be accelerated is the little “tear-off” animation whenever a puzzle card is picked up. Every single time, you must wait roughly a second before moving the card elsewhere. It cannot be disabled. One second may not sound long, but repeated often enough it becomes less a design flourish and more a tiny bureaucratic punishment. [i]Every. Damned. Single. Time.[/i] By the end, Froggo’s expression no longer seemed misanthropic. It seemed entirely reasonable. [b]Postscript:[/b] In a final and wholly unexpected act of mercy, the game has just crashed hard with a Windows error message. The operating system apparently recognised a humanitarian emergency, formed an emergency committee, completed the necessary paperwork, and terminated the programme before I could be subjected to any further cosy, heartwarming torment. I would therefore like to thank Windows for its swift intervention. Five stars for the error message. Regrettably, it was not part of the game.

It's a very small jigsaw puzzle game with nice art. The puzzles don't take any thinking. It was fine. I can recommend it for a mindless 2 hours but not at $13.

评分：1.5/5 评测：本来以为是解谜游戏，结果只是个拼图游戏，再附加手感烂到爆炸的指向点击。游戏过程就是先给你几块拼图，把他们拼好后会变成地形，然后当正常的指向点击游戏来玩，这部分的解谜毫无引导，而且交互手感巨差，非常难玩。整体并没有什么值得体验的点，很无聊的游戏，不推荐

Игра милейшая, но к своему концу из-за однообразия (и самое главное - из-за полотенец текста на английском языке, которые бесконечно надо пропускать) становится слегка раздражающая. Надеюсь, она хотя бы получит русскоязычную локализацию в итоге, поэтому ставлю лайк.

game was cute, easy, short and good for achievement hunters.

The puzzle part of the game is fun if you like jigsaw puzzles. But conversations and the speed of the animations make the game a "not recommended" for me. They should've kept the conversations shorter or made them more interesting, and add an option to speed up the animation while our frog is walking from one place to another.

Pros - Great art-style. - Charming characters and dialog. - Simple but engaging gameplay. - Entirely playable with mouse. Cons - A little bit buggy with regards interactions not triggering for some reason. - Starts getting repetitive (no real variation) but doesn't over stay its welcome in farness. - No voice acting which I think would have really worked in game like this. Overall short and sweet, recommended.