Forum Overview :: Dropsy the Clown
 
This might be the best adventure game I've played. It's way better than Broken by Rafiki 06/06/2016, 8:31am PDT
Age. The pictographs are great, because all "dialogue" is straight to the point. No flavor text, no clicking through 3,000 options of "tell me about this, tell me about that, what's the deal with that guy," and sitting through 45 minutes of talking about things I don't care about. People have problems, you want to help them with their problems, and in just a few tiny pictures you instantly learn everything you need to. Ironically, those few pictures, scant animation, and a hug had way more emotional an impact than paragraphs of melodrama. And the puzzles were almost all completely reasonable, I found myself having FUN solving them instead of just trying every item on every obstacle until something worked out of frustration.

I also enjoyed the music.

The credits said the artwork was done by 2 people. If they did the retro pixel graphics because of that limitation that's fine, but if they did it for nostalgic adventure game purposes they really did themselves a disservice.
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Review of Dropsy from Richard Goodness by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/12/2015, 5:45pm PDT NEW
    So that guy rolled a pretty high Wisdom stat NT by Eurotrash 09/13/2015, 12:15am PDT NEW
    So is it a fun game? by Oom Shnibble 09/14/2015, 3:35am PDT NEW
        Sharpening our practical skills, and proving our fitness to potential mates? by Dream Cast 09/14/2015, 4:08am PDT NEW
            Unlike gaming journalists by Oom Shnibble 09/14/2015, 8:51am PDT NEW
        Hold on, I'll buy it. NT by Worm 09/14/2015, 1:41pm PDT NEW
            Took me awhile but yeah it's pretty fun. by Worm 10/01/2015, 2:37pm PDT NEW
                Young Merlin for the SNES had dialogue in pictograms and it was terrible NT by WITTGENSTEIN 10/01/2015, 2:54pm PDT NEW
                    Well this isn't. NT by Worm 10/03/2015, 6:31pm PDT NEW
                This might be the best adventure game I've played. It's way better than Broken by Rafiki 06/06/2016, 8:31am PDT NEW
 
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