Theropods

Yeeeah dinos!!! Lovely pixel art and animation, well worth the wait

Beautiful game an a lovely nostitipf old point and clicks, without being overly difficult. while I will admit to being a bit dissapointed in some story elements, it does not detract from the love that has been poured into this game, from the beginings of the flash game to the final product. I highly recommmend it to any who enjoy and old fashiuoned point and click adventure.

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[h1] THEROPODS[/h1] O que falar desse jogo? Nossa desde o primeiro anúncio eu fiquei ansioso para poder conhecer e jogar, pelo trailer já amei a proposta do jogo por inteiro, gente eu estou apaixonado pelo jogo, vocês não tem ideia o quanto fiquei empolgado, assim que ele lançou já logo adquiri o jogo. Vamos lá Theropods é um jogo fascinante incrivelmente fantástico em tudo, é um jogo de point-and-click que preserva toda intensidade e respeito aos jogos do gênero de época com uma pegada bem moderna. Aos seus lindos gráficos pixelados as magnitudes estrelas cadentes este jogo faz de sim uma pérola pré-histórica. Aqui não temos legendas, não temos dialogo e sim, uma narração visual incrível, a um mundo hostil repleto de dinossauros e bárbaros neste mundo se localiza uma tribo muito bonita, aonde o amor, afeto e carinho são compartilhados por todos. Um lar repleto de famílias e amigos aonde a paz reina, mas até quando? Nesta tribo iremos conhecer uma Amazona cuja, sua mãe foi retirada de si, quando ainda era muito jovem, devorada simplesmente por um T-Rex, aonde sua mãe deu a vida para salvar a sua pequena menina, e que, hoje se tornaria uma grande mulher Amazona e Guerreira. Ela vive com seu pai e amigos de infância. A tribo é simplesmente fantástica muito bem desenhada que dela pré-histórica mesmo. O jogo é repleto de quebra-cabeças muito bem construídos eu levei em torno de quatro horas e meia para zerar, e joguei pela segunda vez sem parar. Você vai viajar diante desse mundo hostil por vales, cavernas, pântanos perigosos, montanhas, desfiladeiros, selvas, vales e enfrentar dinossauros muito poderosos, admita que você já ficou empolgado só de saber disso não foi? Pois então não perca tempo viu, jogue o jogo. Tudo começa quando a nossa Amazona ver algo estranho cair do céu, um objeto não identificado que causou medo e espanto, quando ela foi ver, era um diamante amarelo cor de ouro, algo não estava certo perante a isso. Nossa Amazona é curioso e vai querer descobrir a origem desse objeto, mas as coisa começaram a se desandar, Bárbaros ficaram sabendo desse diamante e logo invadiram o tribo, queimando, saqueando e matando quase todos os habitante, que incluía crianças inocentes. Espantada com tanta crueldade nossa Amazona tentou lutar, mas ela foi vencida pelo medo e resolveu se proteger para mais tarde pensar em algo certo a se fazer. Lá longe temos uma mulher misterioso que veio de uma nave a qual caiu nas terras hostis, sim, o objeto misterioso era essa moça, com armadura interestelar que veio de longe de algum lugar distante. Ela chegou nas terras hostis pois bateu em um meteoro ao qual se deslocou sua localização e origem deixando pra trás sua missão. A guerreira Amazona e essa misteriosa mulher interestelar irão se tornar grande amigas, mas a amizade vai muito mais além que isto, elas vão se tornar parceiras de missão, irão lutar juntas, enfrentar grandes perigos, amizade, confiança e respeito conjunto. Tudo é maravilhoso neste jogo e ainda tem mais, junto com nossa amiga interestelar ela nos trás um pet, sim, um robô android ao qual vai nos ajudar muito em nossas missões é muito legal de verdade. O jogo é desenhado a mão e trazido a vida cinematograficamente ficou maravilhoso tudo o que ele nos oferece, a trilha sonora linda, com sons tribais e elementos de sci-fi é linda e combinou perfeitamente com cada cenário diante das ações que são impostas ao jogo. Diante dessa imensa luta as duas guerreias possuem algo muito em comum, levam consigo a saudade e perda de amores, família pois cada uma tem a sua história e a história da mulher interestelar irá te surpreender ao final, escolhas difíceis tem que ser feita é assim que a vida é, mas escolhas certas, fas vezes fazem a gente se sentir cada vez mais fortes e escolher nosso próprio lugar. Concluindo, maravilho jogo tudo funciona eu amei e recomendo muito a você leitor e jogador a experimentar essa incrível história pré-história que nos foi data nesse dia 20/08/2026, um jogo que você vai levar ele para a sua vida e contar essa grande história para seus filhos e netos, que assim seja hein. Embora essa análise não possa chegar para muitas pessoas eu acredito que um dia ela possa servir e ser útil para quem me encontrar na minha página e pode mandar solicitação de amizade que irei aceitar. Fico por aqui com mais uma análise, eu espero que possa fazer sentido para você e que sirva de grande utilidade para a sua compra desse incrível jogo, simplesmente: THEROPODS.

Theropods is a lovely little gem in the Point & Click Adventure Game genre. It is not an incredible game. Another review mentions the similarly released "The Silver Crow", and while this game does have a higher price tag, you are going to beat either of these games in <3 hrs unless you're somewhat bad at puzzle games or leave the client running. Any P&C game that you can knock out in 3 hrs or less just has its limits - you are basically supporting the development of these kinds of games and their developers with your purchase. Why Theropods? [list] [*]The entire game is diegetic, meaning, there is no text whatsoever, only context clues. This is done well. Don't believe any of the reviews that say the puzzles or environments are hard to interpret. It's a 3 hour game for crying out loud. Those people need to go play Riven. [*]There's a lovely soundtrack. [*]There are likeable characters, original art, and several cutscenes. [*]There's a well written storyline despite its short length. [*]Many puzzles include interesting timing elements not often used in adventure games. This is particularly nice. Theropods includes a "highlight button" like point and click games have done for quite a long time, but oftentimes developers make the mistake of having the only difficulty in their puzzles be originally related to pixel hunting. Take that away by capitulating to adding the highlight keybind, and players soon find that just knowing where things are trivializes multiple chapters of the game. Well, a highlight button doesn't do a damn thing for you if you have to pay attention to what's happening on the screen and infer from time-based elements. [*]The game runs flawlessly without any bugs (on Win 10 at least). [/list] Why *not* Theropods? [list] [*]The 3 hour game time has already been mentioned. If you buy games on steam without looking at reviews, completely ignore completion times by other players, ignore context clues from the game's store page and trailers (and number of achievements, etc.), and then proceed to become irked on account of it being a short game, I don't know what to tell you. The problem exists between the keyboard and the chair. [*]The diegetic nature of the game's design [i] includes the menus [/i], and while the power button sound effect and simplicity is incredibly satisfying, I can see this being a struggle for some users. If you aren't familiar with the usual save and load symbols, quicksave, and can interpret the pictorial representations of windowed mode, then this will probably be to the game's detriment. It's not hard to accidentally hit the ▶ button on the start screen only to realize that's the "New Game" button when you meant to load a save. [*]The game overdoes the cutscenes. It's as if a director decided to switch from P&C to Visual Novel in the last chapter of the game, multiple cutscenes separated by a few forced clicks with no player choices. [*]The puzzle design, while obviously easy and completable, nevertheless has the slightly confusing aspect of never giving the player an explicit goal. You can go places, find items, and do things, and in many cases can [i]infer[/i] your goal, but multiple times you are simply going to be trying out actions to see if they do something. [/list] I would recommend this game for the following scenarios: [olist] [*] You're more than familiar with the difficulty in successfully creating a polished game from start to finish, even if it's lacking in content, and want to support developers while getting a night of fun out of it. [*] You're a game developer that's interested in wordless forms of game design. This includes communication between NPCs; exacting tutorials for the player for movement, inventory, and at least one surprising system that the game's store page didn't tell you about; and also the effectiveness of pixel art when you are restricted from giving the player any descriptions for anything. [*] You already have either The Drifter or The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. Those other titles are much more significant in length, largely getting around the short time issue here with a bundle purchase. [*] You really just like the setting and vibe of the game. [*] You want a P&C game that could easily be played with a (relatively) young member of your family. There's pixel blood & obviously dinosaur violence - YMMV - but with the wordless aspect of the game, I imagine boredom is unlikely. [/olist] There's definitely a version of this P&C title that's a ~20 hr mainstream title. I hope this game acts as inspiration for that future game to exist, wherever it gets made. If you need a modern significant title for your money that will force you to stop and ruminate, then I direct you to Dimhaven, the Lost Source. Non-sequiturs: • There is obviously no AI art in this game and anyone who insinuates so can't be trusted with a salt shaker. • At least one achievement is easily missable due to the nature of not knowing if clicking on something twice might do something different. [i]Oh, the horror![/i] • One puzzle in the entire game technically requires a single step of backtracking. If this is what drives a negative review, God help any of these people should they play any King's Quest or Quest for Glory title. • Did I mention there are dinosaurs?

Very good point and click, the story, the visual style and the music are great. It only takes about 3 hours to complete, but it has a lot of charm

Playing on an M2 Max MacBook Pro, running macOS 15.7.3 I CANNOT recommend the game to anyone who intends to play on a Mac, the game has hard-locked on me TWICE, and the only way to quit has been by force-quitting via Activity Monitor. The first time was in chapter one which, as I was quite near the beginning, I started again - and I do mean started again because, despite the 'save' icon having appeared on the screen three times, the game hadn't been saving (this is why I don't like games with no manual save system). Had there been a demo available, I might have found this out before purchasing the full game, but there isn’t (or at least if there is, it's no longer available on Steam). The second time was in chapter three, and there was no way I was starting over that time - so i've had to ask for a refund but, because it crashed right on the two-hour deadline, I probably won’t get my money back. I don't believe the game was play-tested - or at least not extensively play-tested - on macOS. Gameplay-wise, it's not a bad game, but the puzzles all have the same mechanic which, for a game which has been in development for five years, is pretty inexcusable. Also, there's no text - at all, I realise there's no real dialogue, but deaf and hearing-impaired people like to play games, too, and I think they'd be left pretty baffled, because it cab be pretty confusing when you can hear the characters grunts. I don't usually take a punt on games on release day, unless I know the developer well - I've never played anything by this developer before, so it was a gamble. It's bundled with The Drifter, which is one of my favourite games of recent times, and that's kind of what pushed me towards giving it a go - everything-wise, it's nothing like The Drifter. I just hope Steam will be benevolent and give me a refund. If the developer fixes these issues, I might think about giving it another go but, for now, on macOS, it's unplayable. Avoid if you intend to play on Mac.