Разработчик: KING Art
Описание
While the Army of the Shadows sends out its best and most devious agents to discover the secret, the Alliance's four heroes find themselves involuntarily drawn into the crisis...
Key features:
- Humorous Point & Click homage to the RPG and fantasy genre.
- About 20 hours of gameplay in a massive game world with detailed graphics.
- Multi-character gameplay: Play as Wilbur, Nate, Ivo, and the Critter - in turn or simultaneously - and use the skills of your heroes wisely.
- Meet numerous crazy characters - from two-headed ogres and vegetarian dragons to good-natured zombies.
- Solve over 150 mind-boggling puzzles and discover more than 300 items that can be used and combined.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *:Windows XP SP 3 (32bit) / Vista SP 2 / Windows 7 SP 1
- Processor:Pentium IV 2 GHz / Athlon 2.4 GHz
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
- OS *:Windows XP SP 3 (32bit) / Vista SP 2 / Windows 7 SP 1
- Processor:3 GHz
- Memory:4 GB RAM
- Graphics:Direct-X 9c compliant video card with 256 MB RAM, PixelShader 2.0
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
Mac
- OS:Mac OS X 10.6/Mac OS X 10.7
- Processor:1.4GHz Intel Mac Core Duo
- Memory:1500 MB RAM
- Graphics:Intel GMA-950-Grafikkarte with 64MB VRAM or better
- Hard Drive:6 GB HD space
Отзывы пользователей
Funny, engaging, very tongue-in-cheek vis-a-vis iconic adventure games like monkey island. The length is very satisfactory, without getting tedious or repetitive. The puzzles are also very nice. Aside from a couple of them that relied a bit too much on cartoon logic (for me, at least), they were fairly easy to work through, but by no means trivial. Very "fair play", as well, rewarding players for getting close to a solution, even if not there yet.
The only minus I can think of is some occasional pixel hunting and/or changing hotspots, but you can work around that by using space to highlight all active spots.
All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable game that I definitely recommend for fans of the genre.
A very fun and funny fantasy-set point-and-click. If you enjoy point and clicks, humor, and fantastical (yet goofy) tales, you'll enjoy this.
Brilliant game, wish they'd do more!
The graphical style might be off-putting at first but this is a true adventure game. There are a few places where the waiting for animation can be annoying and a few other places where the humor falls flat but overall it leaves a good taste in your mouth afterwards. Almost none of the puzzles are nonsensical. I recommend to anyone who likes point-and-clicks. My favorite was the section with the group of undead.
great game i miss these games
A wonderful, funny, and immersive game! The Book of Unwritten Tales has clever puzzles, a charming story, and a fantasy world that’s easy to get lost in. It’s a must for adventure fans.
3/5 for me, had some good moments, had some not-good moments.
Gameplay-wise, it was pretty good. Nothing was laggy or buggy on my end, and I'm not always the best at puzzle games so I had a walkthrough open to reference as needed, but most things were pretty straightforward. I LOVED the spacebar being a key to show all the interactable things around you, it really helped me realize when I was finished in a room since I only had so many interactable things visible. I wish more puzzle games had that function. the story itself was okay. I liked a lot of the fourth-wall breaks and references. The final cutscene could have been a bit more fleshed out to be more climactic, but it worked I guess. The main trio of gnome that dreams of becoming a hero, elf princess that can talk to birds, and self-absorbed con man that learns to not abandon everyone, is something that feels like it's been done before, but the game still puts its own spin on it. That said, I just couldn't get over some of the poorly-made jokes when the devs had demonstrated they can be witty and clever in good taste.
Which leads me to my next thing. I know the game came out in 2009, but some of the "jokes" are very much things that only would have flown in a dev room of conservative white men in 2009 making a game for conservative white men in 2009. Ivo's boob window/overall character design is an obvious one, but there's also a male paladin that likes pink and cares about his hair and has a high heel on his banner, and he is openly mocked for it and is manipulated to continue the plot. Additionally, there is a bull-man that lives in a teepee with a feather headdress on the wall that resembles those most people think of when we think of Native Americans originally from the Great Plains region. Additionally, this not-human-man smokes a lot and uses mushrooms, thus leaning into negative Native American stereotypes, and you have to steal part of the headdress for the plot. The reviews for this game are brimming with comments of how clever this game is, and that is true. What is also true is that if the writers were clever enough to write an entire section playing off of LARP and DND and servers, they could have been clever enough to not use toxic masculinity or dehumanizing depictions of Native Americans as humor. I did not have a good time playing those sections, and was relieved when those sections were over. Those section unfortunately resurfaced near the end, which led to me being relieved when the overall game was over. I also didn't like the pattern of tricking other characters into doing what the plot required, but I'm just not a 'the ends justify the means' person.
it is an absolutely great game! if you love point&click adventures: this is your stuff!
the only annoying thing, especially if you wanna replay it: you can't skip all those annoying animations!
they're necessary and fun at the beginning, but if you gotta repeat a few tasks to get something right and/or you replay it, therefor already more or less know crudely the main game....it becomes extremely frustrating and annoying to be forced to watch the same seemingly unnecessary and and annoying animations over and over again without a chance to simply skip them.
yes; ive checked the gnome house before! no, i haven't, yet, found out the right way to proceed. no! i dont wanna watch wilbur annoyingly long climb down the stairs into the basement because i gotta re-check again, if i really checked everything properly in the basement before! i simply wanna quickly check the basement! I HAVE SEEN WILBUR ALREADY SEVERAL TIMES CLIMBING DOWN THE FUCKING STAIRS!!!!!! I DONT NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN FOR A REPEATED TIME!!!!!!!!!
As I write this review, I'm listening to “Night Terrors” by Dream Theater. This new single is the first song with drummer Mike Portnoy since their 2009 album, "Black Clouds and Sliver Linings."
It also happens that The Book of Unwritten Tales was released three months earlier, in April of 2009. Thinking about the late 2000's takes me back to a very different time. It was a time that I've considered the "Dark Ages" for adventure gaming - before the genre was revitalized and became mainstream again in 2012. The Walking Dead and Dear Esther each had different ways of streamlining (simplifying & stripping-down) the adventure game genre.
The Book of Unwritten Tales is also a simplified version of "Monkey Island"-style point-and-click adventure gaming. Because of this more casual approach, it holds up better than most adventure games from the 2000s.
The game removes some of the most annoying things about adventure games, such as pixel hunting (all interactions can be displayed by pressing spacebar), "lune logic" (there are a limited number of interactions, so even if you get stuck, just try everything!), and failure states (you can't do anything that would block progress or end the game.)
I massively enjoyed this game with its casual feel, pre-Marvel humor, lighthearted tone, and excellent voice acting performances. Wilbur and Ivo especially had great voices.
This game has a prequel and a sequel. I'll be playing those at some point!
This is absolutely one of the best point and click games i've ever played, great humor, puzzles, just chef's kiss.
HOWEVER
I am not able to finish any game from TBoUT universum because of bugs.
Simple solutions i found on internet did not work and i am not advanced enough in IT to implement more complex solutions. If i'm buying a game, i shouldn't have to go over extra mile just to be able to open it, right?
It's so sad that developers apparently abandoned the series, it was really a gem this couple of hours i get to play.
For this reasons, with VERY, VERY heavy heart i must say: don't waste your money, it will be only a frustration
Not gonna lie, it has its problems.
Its pretty easy to overlook that one important thing that you cant go on without and there are a view minigames that test you patience and frustration threshhold.
(if developers read this: a skip function would maybe help)
BUT
Every little detail in this game is made by people that not only know ther nerd stuff (mcguffin *cough*) but also put their heart and soul into making a truely bizarre, helarious and unbelievably nerdy game.
The passion that went into this shows in every little detail and it is not only a lot of fun but also really heartwarming to play such a cool homage to everything nerdy (and anything in between)
Thank you for making this.
PS: Have patience with the frustrating mini games: its worth it.
it reminded me a lot of the old Lucas Arts and Sierra On-Line adventures
Tedious. Click read. Click read. Click read. Click read. Click read. .........
So.. Here's the story. I think. You follow a hobbit called Willow who wants to become a mage instead of an engineer. Suddenly he's sent on a quest to deliver a magical ring to an powerful wizard while dodging the evil forces. There's an elf with an attitude and a self claimed treasure hunter. Something like that?
Sigh.. Well I did play a solid point&click game anyways. The puzzles were quite simple and straightforward. Sometimes you had to think outside the box but at least there were no monkey wrenches.
There's quite a lot of things I didn't like here. To me it felt like all the possible originality of the setting was shadowed by constant references and jokes that were hip at the time of release. I lost count on how many Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and gods know what else stories were mixed and ridiculed here. Satires are all well and good but for my tastes, this was rather poorly written..
Recommending this? For the sake of experiencing it yourself. The overall reviews are mostly positive and as I wrote, its a solid game. Just not my cup of tea.
There's a rain dance sequence which requires fast movements and I can't complete it. There is no option to skip it.
Holy cow did I love this game and the sequels. I mean, I think it's spoiled me for all other games. How am going to find another game with phenomenal voice actors, beautiful graphics, and gut busting humor? Not to mention really good puzzles. I can't believe I had never heard of this game before until recently. I wish I could play all three of them again for the first time.
My favorite game!
Well so far I feel this is a parody against RPGs and RPGers.
so far I don't know if I should laugh or be offended..from a game!?
ANd everytime I start getting "Immersed" they do or say something seemingly to purposely? Yank you out of your
immersion. Which is usually some sort of irl joke or insult?
I Really REally wanted to love this one and it is really really well done and made just, ugh... ..I Hope this is just part of its charm and it gets better and I will change my review. Maybe its my attitude, I'll try changing that too; but I doubt it will help, I been gaming my whole life. Dang.. Hope I change this review.
real fun experience, 10/10
Nice point'n'click is your like LOTR and similar. Good things also there's no redundant or repeated guessing with impossible combinations and the solutions are much obvious. Good game. Playing now TBOUT2 for some minutes and it's exactly what you would expect from a point'n'click like this on modern graphics and gamepad support.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | KING Art |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 82 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 89% положительных (927) |