As part of Lethargic Gamers' Half Term Gaming Fun super fun bonanza festival(ok exaggerated advertising over) we review the first game to be completed this holiday. It's classic point and click adventure Simon the Sorcerer.
From Rocket Knight Adventures to Ristar to Shantae, developers celebrate their favorite idle animations in games -- and how those little glimpses of character breathe life into virtual worlds.
All of them
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It’s amazing the amount of work developers will put in for something most players won’t ever see
I actually enjoyed them all in any game I played as a kid. I remember always taking a moment in any title to see the idle animations, and truthfully I still do.
One game's idle animation not listed, and should have been, is Conker's Bad Fur Day. That squirrel had so many it was insane. I remember off-hand that he drank something, hummed impatiently, looked at a porno mag, played Gameboy, juggled, yo-yoed, and possibly my favorite, checking his watch and saying: "nope, I still can't tell time."
Ryan Crocker from GameGrin writes, "It pains me to admit this, but I've been playing point 'n' click adventure games for close to 30 years. That's actual decades. (Christ on a bike, man! Think of what great things you might have accomplished if you hadn't spent all that time lounging about like some pasty, goggle-eyed slug!) When LucasArts released its seminal adventure 'The Secret Of Monkey Island', I was a spotty adolescent who would routinely shun any form of social interaction in favour of sitting in the dark in front of my beloved Amiga 500. Many were the hours I spent combining a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle with a packet of breath mints in an often futile attempt to accomplish some impossibly silly task. My parents were of the view it was an embarrassing waste of time; time better spent mowing the lawn. I vehemently disagreed. I still do."
I (Robin Ek, TGG) wasn´t quite sure what I should make of Psilocybe Games point-and-click adventure/RPG/horror game "Pigsodus", but I gave the demo a try. And I had a blast!
I think most people who enjoy point-and-click adventure games will find "Pigsodus" to be rather entertaining.
