Once upon a time in Japan

[TosaInu]

http://www.abborado.com/

[The_Doctor]

What type of game is it?

[TosaInu]

Hello The_Doctor,

It's about Japan and seems to make a slightly more down to earth approach instead of magic.

A point and click adventure. Not a game I play daily, but I enjoyed a few in the far past.

I hope this game will be released and I'll certainly buy it. The Japan factor won't be ignored.

[scotchedpommes]

A point and click adventure... in this day and age?

Is the dialogue to be in Japanese, do you know?

[The_Doctor]

A point and click adventure.

I throught so.

I have played one of those since "The Dig".

[Duke John]

Those drawn backgrounds look superb! Looks interesting enough to keep checking.

[TosaInu]

A point and click adventure... in this day and age?

hehe.

Is the dialogue to be in Japanese, do you know?

The voice acting is, and that is great. You'll get subtitles of course :)

[Ser Clegane]

Hmm ... usually adventures are not quite my genre, but the setting and the style are quite appealing. This could be very interesting - thanks for sharing

[frogbeastegg]

A point and click game! And one with a potentially awesome setting! :froggy starts praying "Please be good, please be good, please be good!" over and over:

I used to play loads of point and clicks, back in the day.

[SwordsMaster]

Cool! I haven't played one of those since Monkey Island 4....

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Looks cool!

[Geoffrey S]

Most promising. It's been a while since the last good point 'n click.

[econ21]

Point and click? Boo, hiss! From the graphics, I was hoping it would be some awesome story and character heavy RPG in the Baldur's Gate style. Feudal Japan would be such a good setting for a CRPG. It does look very nice and atmospheric, but I guess I'll have to settle for Jade Empire.

[Samurai Waki]

I love point and click games, it must be a nostalgic reminiscient of playing Monkey Island(s), Sam and Max, Full Throttle, The Dig, and Grim Fandango to name a few... I miss them sometimes.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

There's not a day gone by I don't bemoan the decline of the adventure genre. I really hope this is good.

I love point and click games, it must be a nostalgic reminiscient of playing Monkey Island(s), Sam and Max, Full Throttle, The Dig, and Grim Fandango to name a few... I miss them sometimes.

Day of the Tentacle was, and always will be, the king of adventure games.

[TosaInu]

Zack Mc Cracken & the Alien Mindbenders on the C64. Wait, that wasn't point and click, I even didn't have a mouse. ;)

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

A point and click adventure. Not a game I play daily, but I enjoyed a few in the far past.

Hi guys,
Sorry about my dumbness (read the username ) yet what is a "point and click game" of which you gaming genii speak of? Thanks.

[The Foolish Horseman]

Point and click games are where you use the mouse to click which direction you want the main character to go/where to shoot/who to interact with

imagine if you will, sort of like sims without the looking after or buying or anything...just where you click where you want to go

[Caius]

I remember Indiana Jones.

And Mansion from UltraWar

[frogbeastegg]

Point and click games are an old type of puzzle/adventure game, so called because the game took place on a series of flat backgrounds which you navigated and interacted with by pointing and clicking. This method of interacting led to the once infamous "sweeping the screen", that is working the cursor backwards and forwards across the screen in a tight search pattern looking for anything and everything which you could click on. This was something you started doing when stuck and didn't know what you should be doing. There was often a lot of talking involved in these games, and I can't recall playing one which didn't have a strong story.

While the genre pretty much died with the advent of 3D games there have been some efforts to make them in 3D, for example the recent 'Broken Sword: Angel of Death'. The reception of these 3D games varies; some love them just as much as the old 2D games, others (m,yself frequently included) find them inferior for a variety of reasons, such as the fiddlier methods of getting about and interacting, the introduction of things like reflex based action scenes, the way it is frequently harder to find items and hotspots to interact with due to the need to go up and stand beside them to have them 'tagged', and the simple fact that in 3D you have to do a lot more legwork to investigate a given scene compared to the old 2D games where the most you needed to do was scroll a background left or right by clicking once to tell your character to move.

The point and click game survives in another, bastardised form. Many adventure games, platformers, even some RPGs have taken elements of the point and click.

[Andres]

"Vampire : The Masquerade - Redemption" was a point and click game in 3D and is highly recommended to each fan of RPG games.

For those who never played that game: what are you waiting for? Go find yourself a copy and play

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Thanks for the answers!

[UltraWar]

I really love the LucasFilm (LucasArts) SCUMM games. I really kick ass at them (well for the exception of the Dig, Full Throttle and COMI.) Maniac Mansion though, is my prime favourite. The original one of course, not the updated version. Caius, how was Maniac Mansion?

[Caius]

I really love the LucasFilm (LucasArts) SCUMM games. I really kick ass at them (well for the exception of the Dig, Full Throttle and COMI.) Maniac Mansion though, is my prime favourite. The original one of course, not the updated version. Caius, how was Maniac Mansion?

Good, but it didnt released a good beta.

Lazy UW

[AntiochusIII]

http://www.abborado.com/

[hippie accent]Back in the day, man. Back in the day.[/hippie accent]