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This is the last adventure game designed by Dynamix' founder Jeff Tunnell,
the prolific designer of such puzzle classics as The Incredible Machine. You are
precocious youngster and resident console-game addict Willy Beamish, who, in his
insatiable quest to procrastinate, starts out his summer vacation on a high note
with a bunch of friends, gets into bigger and bigger trouble with a bully, and
eventually gets to save his hometown from malignant adults who are poisoning the
town's only river. The optional puzzles and multiple puzzle solutions that made
Jeff's earlier classics Heart of China and Rise of The Dragon highly replayable are
sadly missing from this game, as here Willy is plunged headlong into one trouble
after another without any control over his fate, and the adventure is over all too
soon. Still, funny animations, clever puzzles (some involving Willy's pet frog as an inventory item), and humorous antics help elevate the game above mediocrity. The
CD-Rom release added full voices to the game which the disk version lacked and has some different cutscenes. |
