It was a dark and foggy morning. The fog was so thick you had to cut it with a knife. The morning was so early, even the moon hadn’t gone to bed yet. It was so dark, a blind man could see better than I could. I stumbled into my office, and sat down to a breakfast of Johnny Walker red. I sat around, for hours and hours. I sat around so much I wore a groove into my seat. I drank so much that I fell asleep until the next morning. That was when SHE walked in. All curves, not a straight edge or corner to be seen. I had sworn off women ever since a man hired me to find out if his wife was cheating on him and I learned that his wife was my secretary and the man I was investigating was me. In fact I lit out of town the instant I figured that out. I decided I was going to be alone forever. That is until she walked in. She didn’t walk in again, I simply said it again to emphasize it. The woman turned out to be my mom, and she had baked me some cookies. Cookies so good you would have shot Betty Crocker just to taste them. She also brought me the newest Nick Bounty Mystery, A Case of the Crabs. Okay maybe it was the first, how was I to know? Actually maybe she brought me the website address of Pinhead Games developers of the Nick Bounty games. I don’t really remember, see I was drinking. In fact this may have just been some creative wordplay because Nick Bounty is a comedy adventure mystery type game. Now that I had wasted some space talking about myself in the third person I was ready to start the review.
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A Case of the Crabs: A Nick Bounty mystery!
Thursday, May 14th, 2009(ags) Ben Jordan Case 2 – I don’t think Lost Galleon’s are paranormal, do you?
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Certainly strange to find a ship in a desert, but paranormal? Hardly. Even the Skunk-Ape wasn’t really paranormal, just weird, and legendary. Just like the Legend of Boggy Creek II hilariously lampooned by Mystery Science Theatre 3000. In any case. A lost ship in a desert is an intriguing idea. Is the legend true? How did it get in the desert? Is there’s still treasure in it? All these questions and more are answered in Ben Jordan’s second case, entitled The Lost Galleon of the Salton Sea. Actually Ben’s investigating a disappearance of a local man from Dunesburg, California, who was after the Spanish treasure ship. So I guess mysterious disappearances are within the purview of paranormal investigator, who knows. In any case this promises to be most interesting as did the first case. I did manage to finish the first case by the way. Now I, too, have seen the Skunk-Ape in person and lived to tell the tale. Of course I also had help. Good ol’ internet is to the rescue! Anyways, whereas there’s something artistic about Ben Chandler’s games and less about the game play (not that these are bad, you can see my Shifter and Annie Android reviews to see what I think about them), and Wadjet Eye Games (Dave Gilbert who happens to actually have done testing for this and some voice work, who is superb by the way) eye toward professionalism but keeping with only New York. Ben Jordan is characterized by strong umm, characters, and story. So far both cases have been immediately engaging to me, more so than the others I have reviewed (no offense guys). So here is Ben Jordan, Paranormal Investigator, Case 2: The Lost Galleon of the Salton Sea by Grundislav Games (aka Francisco Gonzalez).
(ags) Ben Jordan Case 1 – I must love adventure games about the paranormal.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I seem to keep reviewing AGS-made adventure games that revolve around paranormal themes. Okay maybe they’re just making them. Okay so it was just the two Blackwell Games. Okay so Ben Jordan and Blackwell have the paranormal in common, and, the Shivah and Ben Jordan have murder in common. Actually that’s not true. The Shivah had someone die and leave money to the Rabbi. I only played the demo so I don’t know if it has anything to do with murder. Ok so here we go, I already spilled the beans, today’s adventure game is called Ben Jordan, Paranormal Investigator in In Search of the Skunk-Ape by Grundislav Games! Sound intriguing. I bet Skunk-Ape grabbed you right there! As I understand a Skunk-Ape is sort of like a smelly Big Foot. And you all know how smelly feet are! I decided to review the deluxe version, as it seems the creator’s original vision did come up to par with the rest of the series. In any case, let’s see how this thing works out!