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Everything is very well drawn, and a lot of work has gone into them. They’ve got a basic 2D, South Park-esque quality to them, while not amazing they’re perfectly serviceable. The graphics aren’t the most impressive you’ll see, even for an indie title. Some people will love the fact that it keeps close to the classic style games, but for me it grew a little annoying. While it does extend the length of the game, it’s these design elements that modern point and click games try and steer clear of. Sometimes you’ll find yourself doing the good ol’ pixel searching to locate items that you may have missed.

There’s little direction or aim in terms of what is meant to be done next, which can lead to wandering around the same few screens searching for clues. The Mystery of Woolley Mountain attempts to be a faithful adaptation of a 90s style adventure game, and to its credit, manages to hit the nail on the head in terms of gameplay and presentation, but the game design seems to be stuck in the era too. This is not unusual for this type of game but the set up suggested the solution was nearby so I kept trying. This led to me searching around the sub repeatedly looking for the solution, but it turns out that this solution isn’t solved for some time into the first act and an awful lot of other unrelated things have to be solved first. I can jump on the drum kit and play for a few seconds, but if I misclick and hit the drum set I have to watch the animation each time, that can be a bit annoying.Īlso, early on in the game you’ll come across a colour mixing puzzle, during which the player character tells us that the solution is around somewhere. Most things are interactable in the early submarine section, but often I found it all a bit distracting. Record players, ZX Spectrums, retro posters and even a copy of Crash magazine.

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Woolley Mountain crams many of its early scenes full of interactable, retro items. It’s up to his group of travelling scientists, The Helmholtz Resonators to rescue him. Laudenkleer was captured during a solo mission to rescue a group of children who too are held captive at Woolley Mountain. The storyline revolves around rescuing acclaimed explorer, Vandamme Laudenkleer, who has been captured by an evil witch who lives in the titular Woolley Mountain. Items, objects, people or scenery can be interacted with, picked up or spoken to. I don’t feel like I need to explain point and click games, but you point and then you click. Two and a half years later and The Mystery of Woolley Mountain is here. It certainly helped that legendary point and click game designer Ron Gilbert was one of Woolley Mountain’s backers. The game hit its Kickstarter goal back in 2016, gaining £9,579 worth of funding. The Mystery of Woolley Mountain is two things: it’s a love letter to the British home computer era, while also being an ode to 80s and 90s Lucasarts adventure games. The Mystery of Woolley Mountain is no different. There’s also those games that pay homage to a type, genre or era of gaming. I do too, so I’m always up for a long delayed sequel, reimagining, remake, or even a spiritual successor. I feel like I’ve said this four thousand times, but people love nostalgia.

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