Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island

The game would be interesting enough, but it's ruined by waiting. Either because there is some weird black screen right after going to another room, or because you have to watch your character move across a room, or, most annoyingly, because you can't skip any text apparently. Every time you examine something - and you do that a lot - the character will actually speak the text you can read. So far so good, a nice voice-over is always welcome. However, any well designed game should offer the option to SKIP the voice-over. I probably could read the text a dozen times while the character is still droning on about it. As nice as the voices are, after a while I don't need to listen to them every time - especially if it's something I've heard several times already. To confound that problem, the puzzles are not necessarily something you'd call obvious, so you need to try a lot of stuff - and have to listen to the characters over and over again. If you've got lot of patience and time - go ahead, try it. The graphics are quite nice, the voices are alright. It's really mainly the UI that kills it.

Hey there! A a fan of Point n Click games, i got to say that i really enjoyed that one. Its an easy game with easy puzzles. There was a few bugs along the way but i was able to easily get thru, one thing that is great is that it auto-saves for you! I did really felt the monkey island vibe, i also did the duke grabovski game that i liked as well!

Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island is an attempt at a thematic ripoff of the Monkey Island theme of point and click comedy pirate adventure games. On the plus side, this is a serious attempt at making a video game, and it's not terrible, but there's some deep flaws. Resolution is locked and can't be changed. You can choose between 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions, but this is somewhat bizarre considering the 2015 launch date... exactly who did they think was using a monitor from the 1990's in 2015 that they designed this game to cater to them? A strange development choice for sure. Because the resolution is locked, and the assets aren't of high resolution, everything looks blurry, and low quality. Likewise, the story is plodding and painfully unamusing. There's no skip dialogue option, so you have to put up with the poor dialogue whether you like it or not. It's apparent little to no playtesting took place before this was published. The mediocre quality, technical limitations, and over optimistic $10 USD price tag (more than you can get Monkey Island for) prevent me from recommending this.

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Gleich vorweg: Das Spiel mit der beliebten Serie Monkey Island zu vergleichen ist zwar nachvollziehbar, aber gegen diese Meisterwerke kann dieses Spiel nur verlieren. Dennoch sollten es Liebhaber des Adventure-Genres es sich holen. Warum? Auch wenn die Story im Vergleich zu anderen Adventures eher seicht ist, so macht es doch Spaß mit den drei Protagonisten dem Vooju-Priester Papa Doc, der Piratenspionin Jane und dem Piratenkoch Blue Belly die Story zu erkunden. Was vor allem sehr schön auffällt sind die schönen Areale die man mit den drei Protagonisten besucht, hier haben die Entwickler viel liebe zum Detail gehabt. Die Rätsel in diesem Spiel sind nicht besonders schwer, Kombinationen von Objekten machen zum größten Teil wirklich Sinn, manchmal kommt man nur einfach nicht im ersten Moment drauf. Und man sollte die Dialoge mit den NPC's nicht nur genießen, immerhin sind sie auf deutscher Sprache vorhanden, sondern einige Handlungen ergeben sich erst aus den Gesprächen mit den NPC's. Die Story ist, wie am Anfang schon erwähnt, nicht sehr üppig ausgeschmückt, sondern sehr einfach gehalten, nur wenige Dialoge führen von der Hauptstory weg und geben einem ein paar nette Hintergrunddetails. Auch hätte das Zusammenspiel der drei Protagonisten deutlich mehr sein können, handeln alle doch eher unabhängig voneinander und benötigen nur hier und da die Hilfe der anderen. Hätte man meiner Meinung nach mehr integrieren können dieses Feature. Schlussendlich ist es ein solides Adventure, welches Liebhaber für ein paar Stunden begeistern kann, solange diese eben nicht einen Vergleich zu anderen, wirklich herausragenden Adventures, suchen und das Spiel nur für sich alleine auf sich wirken lassen.

Very funny game with really amusing characters. Though its not always clear what has to be done to complete a scene, but with a bit of trial and error you get there. Graphics are good..

Game doesn't get past the first loading screen. Tried all the different solutions mentioned in community hub and discussions to no avail.

I love this game so much that I bought it twice. Disc and digital!