| Timmy's Sea Adventure | Compedia / GameNation | 2002 | |
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This is Timmy's fourth appearance on the computer screen. His first three appearances were in story book-cum-activity centre games: Timmy Climbs the Wall, Timmy the Dream Hunter and Timmy's Birthday Party. This one, Timmy's Sea Adventure, is his first adventure outing. Inspired by David Grossman stories the game opens at Timmy's bath time. His father reaches into the tub and pulls the plug. The water swirls in the plughole and so does Timmy's bright pink fish. As it disappears Timmy wonders what would happen if someone pulled the plug in the sea. Move on to bedtime. In his dream the pink fish cries out. Timmy totters into the bathroom to find his pink friend down the plughole ... someone HAS pulled the plug in the sea! It's a happy mixture of inventory based adventure puzzling jumbled together with games and activities. The activities include a memory matching game, a space, or more rightly, a trash invaders game, a peg jumping puzzle, a Pacman Maze, a cake decorating exercise, and the like. Where relevant the games have three difficulty levels making them suitable for a range of ages, and sometimes they provide useful inventory items to help solve other problems in the story. But very little is for free, of course J , it costs a 'shell' to play many of the games, so there's the added imperative of shell hunting to increase the fun factor of the exploration. Of course Timmy's ultimate challenge on this journey is to find the missing plug so that the Sea Lion can pull his foot out of the plughole and take a rest. This involves collecting the ingredients for baking a cake, finding the Turtle's lost shell, freeing the Teddy Bear Fish from a net and so on. All the characters are cute and chirpy and they are voiced very well, pity they don't have names to bring them more alive. Overall the graphics are friendly and clear with a colourful soundtrack to match, plus a song or two. | ||
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