PuppetShow: Return to Joyville Collector's Edition
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A game with no strings attached!
For those who enjoyed the first two edition of PuppetSHow, you are in for a pleasant surprise. The Villain, Felicia, needs your help to undo her past and make things right again. How? By way of time travel ofcourse. As Detective, you find yourself in the past and your mission is to prevent the tragic events from happening that caused Felicia from going all vengful on everyone. You find yourself helping to save the very young Felicia and solve a mystery that will reveal the true culprit of PuppetShow. Once again, the devlopers have given us truely beautiful graphics and annimations, complimented by Voice/overs and very good sound-track. There are three modes of play and options include wide-screen and custom cursor. There are many puzzels to solve, items to find and suprisingly new tricky mini-games to play all giving you a really entertaining game experience. The HOG scenes are very crowded and there are some interaction involved. The only complaint I had with game mechanics was the inventory which is a fan that you need to open everytime you need an item. This became to be annoying after a while as I am a creature of habit, and am use to having my inventory open and available at all times.
Visually the game is breathtaking with beautiful cut scenes and I loved the graphics and design. Yes there could have been extra features like a reward system or morphing objects but the storyline and gameplay makes up for that. I loved the first two games and I really cannot wait to continue my journey with the third edition. By the way, not to spoil anything, but what is up with that cat????? Happy Gaming everyone!!!
April 19, 2012
nice game
Now part of the 4 Puppetshow series has been released. As always, very nice graphics, fun mini games, HOS overloaded, find the items but actually simple. Comprehensible manual, one-touch function that works not only in the HOS. I bought the game immediately (without a trial version to play) and I was not disappointed so far. Played in the English version, although I am from Germany and thanks for the manual button and typing no trouble playing
April 19, 2012
Awesome!
I love the puppetshow games!! All of them are so well done and this one is no exception! Great graphics, clever mini games, challenging without being frustrating. Check it out - well worth your time!
April 19, 2012
Unique HO and adventure game
Between 3 and 4 stars, which is somewhat disappointing. Ranked the first 3 higher. It has puzzles, some quite challenging. It has HOS which are quite straightforward. With no added attractions such as morphing objects to distract you, there's no reason to be confused. But that's how I felt through the whole game. Unique object interaction had little clue, while obvious things had obvious clues. I never really felt I had an understandable short term goal. Long term, prevent fire. Shorter term I wandered aimlessly, finding things that I had no idea how to use. Found things to be fixed, repaired or opened with no tool to do so. While I hate the find a tool, use a tool, I find that I hate even more finding upteen tools with no place to use them. And sometimes the tool you use is illogical. Get the honey for the bear..... but find a propellor for the fan and attach ballons to honey bucket so fan can blow it away and bear will chase...... clever but no way to "deduce" that plan without the strategy guide. I did buy the CE and am glad I did, but must admit that while I will someday replay the game, it ranks at the bottom of this series. Graphics are great; puzzles are challenging, but the wandering is a bit too vague. Seldom revisted spots, just kept adding spots, but you wonder if you should go looking further back into the game for something......
Hard to describe what wasn't there, but cohesiveness is about as close as I can come. It just didn't come together. Love the series and hope that the next one will try for a little logic in the mix. Keep on keeping on, ERS
April 21, 2012
Puppet Games Are Great
I enjoyed this try out very much. Always surprises and intriguing characters. Some places very simple but as the other games began getting more difficult so I am looking forward to purchasing this. Great artwork, lots of colour and sometimes hard to tell the 'real people' from the Puppets. Thank you again for another excellent choice BFG.
April 19, 2012
Does NOT Disappoint!!!!
I have been anxiously waiting for this release and bought it without the trial because I have all the other Puppet Show games and Love, Love them!!! If you have not tried this series- what are you waiting for?? lol
Just the right amount of creepiness, HOGS, mini puzzles and just plain old fun!
Graphics are great, love the extra visual effects in a few of the HOGS!! Music is fine, not overly annoying. The developers(ERS) have come through once again with an excellent game that is well worth the cost for the CE. I have just started playing and I know I have hours of fun to look forward to!!
April 20, 2012
PATHOS Revisited
The minute I saw this one in my mailbox, I knew I had to get it. No trial needed ! I adore this series, and if you haven't played the others you are missing out. The Dev is ERS. need I say more. Great art work, great stories, and puzzles. Music and voice overs fine. Good mix of creepiness and pathos. I have only played 10 minutes so far, but had to stop to write this and do some things about the house, before I can really dive in. LOVE LOVE this series !!!!!
April 19, 2012
I like this developer, but time for a new story!
I have all of the other games from this dev and really liked them. This one really doesn't have anything new. The graphics are very nice, music pretty much the same as the others, game play nice, SG very nice. Story is very predictable. Not overloaded HOGs (I like HOGs#, and items are not difficult to find. Seems to have a few more games, which are fairly simple. I didn't like the fact that you can't lock the tool bar in place #constantly clicking to open it up is very annoying).
Couldn't tell from the SG how long the game was, which I prefer knowing in advance of spending so much. I still had 2 min left in my 1 hour demo, so it would have to be a lot longer in order for me to purchase this game as a CE.
I did like it and and I probably will purchase, but want to see how long it is first. Thanks for the reviews.
April 19, 2012
What can I say?
Puppet Show is Puppet Show!! It never lets you down. Interesting surroundings, clever minigames, and a sometimes scarry surroundings. Many entertaining houres awaits you.
April 19, 2012
This is pure joy
If you love PupperShow, you will not be disappointed by this 3rd installment. I was very excited when I saw this release today and I only played the demo so far but as soon as I am finished downloading the game, I am going back in to complete.
April 19, 2012