The Adventurous Four

Mixed. The sequel to [i]Wild Island Quest[/i] with the same quirky graphics. It is funny but does not really intend to be. [h3]Additional Details[/h3] [table] [tr] [td]Operating System[/td] [td]Ubuntu Linux 16.04 x64[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]CPU[/td] [td]Ryzen 5 1500x[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]GPU[/td] [td]GTX 1050[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Last played[/td] [td]June, 2018[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Technical Notes[/td] [td]No problems[/td] [/tr] [/table]

A `choose your own adventure` with very few actual choices, but that`s not really important or why I quite enjoyed this. First the story starts rather normally although something was slightly off with the characters or setting. The story dialogue is stiff and feels like it`s been maybe translated to english but nothing too out of the ordinary although it gradually becomes an outright wacky adventure that doesn`t seem to involve good storytelling or decent character dialog. And this is where it begins to shine. The rather charming if unintentionally funny 3d models, their poses and facial expressions, odd narrative choices and descriptions that range from the oddly mundane to comically over the top and often somewhat inappropriate. I`ve played another of these games, The Barbarian and the Subterranian Caves and while I don`t think it quite reaches the strangeness of that maybe because that was the first one I`ve played, it was enough to keep me entertained and giggling for an hour. Recommended, if not entirely for the reasons it was created.

Wouldn't recommend

I don't even know what was going on... first there was a very disturbing dog then big bats then big foot, then there was ogre, then there was dragon, then we flew on giant seagul bats and then we saved some cave lady who wasn't actually a cave lady and then we used a flamethrower and killed everything and then we flew away with a flying ship... Il be honest maybe the story is interesting, but everything looks very awful that i'm doubtful of that. Mostly played it for the achievements which i got all of them in 30 minutes, just hold space and it skips all the text until it gives you 2 options to choose from and from there on you can experiment and get every ending and outcome.

The Adventurous Four is a visual novel with occasional Choose Your Own Adventure style decisions. Imagery to support the story is presented through various Blender style 3D rendered scenes of the stock asset models. The imagery doesn't look nearly as good as perhaps the developers thought it would, but it's a novel approach. The writing isn't all that good to being with, but being translated from Russian mangles it. Visual novels are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that 1984 or Arthur C Clarkes 2001 or Twilight (if you must), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence. It would be garbage. Now imagine that, but with worse writing, and you have your average Steam visual novel. The Adventurous Four is worse than your average Steam visual novel.

This is a CLICKING adventure but good Lol