Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet

I don't know how I got this game but I am glad I played it. It's stupidly witty. Loved every second of it.

The puzzles are reasonably challenging and you can always ask Sebastian if you're lost. The puzzles are not so much a minigames as "find something and use it in the right place," although there are a few minigame-type. The dialogue is so fun that I actually enjoyed going around to talk to everyone (as opposed to just doing so to make sure I didn't miss anything)! The game is very family-friendly, and although there is some wordplay that might go over kids' heads there's nothing raunchy or really violent. This was basically an instabuy for me when I learned that ABK wrote the game, and his dry wit and love of wordplay shows in the characters and dialogue! I think this is a charming, relaxing, and silly puzzle game for a logic-puzzler of any age!

This game was an absolute joy from start to finish, with sharp writing and immensly quotable dialogue. Highly recommend!

It's a no-brainer to give Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet a hearty thumbs up, but I suppose if you want a some-brainer, it's a smartly written UK comedy disguised as an adventure game about an aspiring pirate, amidst the backdrop of impending birdpocalypse. The gameplay itself is often just a flimsy substrate to get to the quippy dialogue and quirky characters--which makes me inclined to feel both more forgiveness and more annoyance when the game falls prey to the most common adventure game mishap in the world: the point where you're stuck walking back and forth, clicking everything, with zero idea which inventory object needs to be used on which environmental object (or character) to solve an obstacle. I found myself in that position several times over the course of an otherwise short Fowl Fleet run-through. Sometimes, getting the "wrong" answer yields another funny piece of dialogue to soften the blow, but just as often I found myself stumped and getting generic "Well, that won't work!" style lines that slowed the pace considerably. In general, I'm over this style of gameplay. It felt novel in the early 2000s, but now it feels dated as a mechanism for interactive story delivery…

A really budget Monkey Island. Quite fun, but it's very much the basics everywhere. The story is pretty bare-bones but wraps up at least (albeit with some very nonsensical twists). Puzzles are easy but that's OK... All quite fun, but nothing stands out, except possibly the songs - lots of songs!

Great point and click pirate adventure with charming characters, atmospheric setting and fun puzzles. I really like the songs