Guard Duty

Hallo liebe Entwickler, falls euch dies erreicht, von ganzem Herzen ein Dankeschön. Das Spiel hat mich an meine Kindheit erinnert. Mit Spielen wie Discworld oder Simon the Sorcerer. Es mir sehr viel Freude bereitet. Gerne mehr davon ;-) Alles liebe und gute euch

Guard Duty is a bit short, and the puzzles are rather simplistic. But it's still fun overall.

I don't exactly know what to have made of this experience. The game is a "comedy adventure," but also has *massive* tonal shifts that more interrupt my enjoyment of the Monkey Island-esque humor elements. I completed the game feeling very uneasy, which may have been the point!

This is only worth it if you're really desperate for point-n-click adventures. The graphics and animations are good, and the puzzles work out alright. But the characters are dull, the writing never reaches quite reaches clever, the story is boring, and the many pastiches and references are merely there but uninteresting. It's kind of trying to re-create those Simon the Sorceror/Legend of Kyrandia days. But I'm sorry, the writing just doesn't pop. As an adventure game, there's far too much back-tracking, and it never adds anything. It really is only passing through screens you've fully explored before (many of which don't have anything to do inside anyway) to get to where you already know you need to go. All that walking is padding. The flat writing and all the extra walking add up to a slog of a game.

Would I recommend this game? Yes! Indeed I would. + Great writing, awesome dialogues + Somehow the characters and writing remind me of Discworld games + Graphics are beautiful and vary enough through the game + Long timeline from mid-ages to the science fiction future creates a huge but greatly successful contrast + Talking to characters is fun, rewarding and there are lot of dialogues + Animations are generally pleasing + Not too short, and the story is complete + Music is great, and there's enough variability + Interface is generally a delight to use + Steam-achievements are always a bonus - Voice acting is sometimes technically quite so-so. - No separate volume settings for voice acting and music, which means that voices sometimes get lost under the music and sound effects - Intro feels a bit detached at first, but fortunately the game will get back to those events. So you see. It's a great game. It got 92 points and 4 stars out of 5 in my review. One of the best games of recent times.

Very nice game. Everything just clicked - graphics, music, puzzles, and characters. Tondbert for the King ;)

The story is a little bit cliche I would say. But the visual and story presentation is great. Nice work of point-and-click genre.