The Problem With Point and Clickers... | ToonStruck Review (PC)

[@Calculon1712]

Its in my top 5 favourite point n clicks i remember getting this for my birthday back in 1996. One of the animators who worked on this as well as the 2nd half which was going to be the sequel uploaded some videos on YT with some unseen animations and locations.

[@DieWeltIstSchlecht]

I finished the game today, it was so much fun!! How could I have missed this all those years?? Regarding the King's bedroom: it's unfair to call it pixel hunting. The space you can click is huge, it's totally your fault :) Search everything for hotspots, never assume your done after doing one thing. I'm sure you know that, but we'll, sometimes we don't see the forest because of those damn trees! Oh, and let me tell you that I really enjoy your videos!!

[@tragiclantern]

I loved Day of the Tentacle. And the Broken Sword games.

[@CraftyArts]

Nice to see I'm not the only one that can't help but call him "Tim (expletive) Curry"

[@nathanforester5993]

The cow was a reference to Meet The Feebles.

[@BloodoperaBlackvomit]

I just finished this game. Its a mixed bag alright. Chris Loyd as Guybrush in a Sam and Max remake of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

See, on paper, that sounds pretty perfect, haha

[@Vakantscull]

the alternate universe version of Roger Rabbit where Judge Doom is the good guy! also I wouldn't be surprised if this is where Yahtzee Croshaw got the name Malevolands from for his Mogworld novel, either consciously or subconsciously 🤔🤔🤔

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

At least he didn't call it Zanydu.

[@pookiepookie6305]

Toonstruck will always be one of my favourite games, I spent so much time as a kid playing this. Great video.

[@LennyWhatever2]

this would be the result if who framed roger rabbit and sam and max were combined

[@AndyPlayedGuitar]

The hardest point and click I ever played was Kingdom O' Magic which had voices mostly from John Sessions. It was a CDROM sized pain. And weirdest one was probably Torin's Passage. Never met anyone who's played either of them so feel like I've made them up.

[@Tibor0803]

This game has to be picked up by all of us and make Toonstruck 2 freakin' happen!

[@Planetdune]

It can never have the same charm as the first, so why bother.

[@katieheys3007]

The only point and click games I enjoyed were the Dreamfall series but this does actually look dumb but fun.

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

Though the puzzles are beyond cruel I really enjoyed this game. I remember being so bummed about the cliffhanger ending and never getting a part 2.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Definitely deserved a sequel, unfortunately I think the game landed when P&C were just falling out of favour.

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

Absolutely. Such a shame. It should have come out at the height of the P&C hype in 94 or 95 at the latest. The whole game also feels like they had to rush it to market and couldn't quite get all the finishing touches. There were some concept art images for a 2nd part released but nothing more. I remember seeing them in a gaming magazine back then. @@RoseTintedSpectrum

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Yes! Saw those myself while I was researching this game. Damn shame.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

What an excellent video, and nice seeing the teacher (NOT THE PRINCIPAL) from Ferris Bueller's Day Off too! Well done Rosie!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Yeah, Ben Stein. Honestly, there are tonnes of names on the cast list, it'd take forever to go through the whole lot.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum an all-star cast reminding us of the Glory Days of the Cannonball Run!

[@jboneds]

Even though I'm a total point and click nut this is one that had totally passed me by... I may well have to give it a go now!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Definitely should do - as someone who gets constantly miffed with games like this, there was only about 5 times where I was at the end of my tether in a game that is fairly long for its type. It's available on GOG for about a fiver I think? Maybe a tenner. Usually goes on sale though.

[@Djiffmaster]

Great Review thank you! Loved Toonstruck as a child even though I didn't made it very far back then.

[@arostwocents]

Wow this seems pretty cool. Never heard of it. I enjoyed Grim Fandango but never got far, got further in the remake but still quit after a short time. Walking Dead Season One & Borderlands Series One were both incredible based on the interactive story element, with a good enough story and choice you dont need puzzles IMO. What killed Telltale i think was reviewer's showing us and people realising it was only the illusion of choice and everyones story was identical - i think this was the big issue rather than it being too easy. IMO Telltale Games were what visual novels should be, if they could include many different paths and a dozen endings in the games, so that you can have exciting conversations with someone else about what happened to them

[@deadofthesean]

"Drew A Blank" I love that 😂😅

[@dingdingdongtingtingtong]

One of your major gripes was the ladder. It's a large hit box. All you have to do is just... move your mouse around.

[@MacEwanMouse]

Recently got and finished this game, I uhh, saw some art of the cat lady on certain sites and wanted to know where she was from. Glad I got it, was a nice blast from the past, got to have a little bit of an era of games I just barely missed out on. Was surprised at the level of quality on the animation, the high profile cast, and of course when the cat lady goes all "master mode" on you. Anyway, good review, fun game, mince my meat.

[@ruggiebuggie3195]

Reminds me of Monkey Bone, that movie where Brendan Fraser plays a cartoonist that goes into a coma and is trapped in this weird whacky dream world where his cartoon creation is a living, breathing person. A cool idea, but in execution, it didn't really work out. The first half was pretty sweet but then it becomes a completely different movie in the second half.

[@Spoonkers]

I think the latter was because according to Rose McGowan (actress of Ms. Kitty) on 'Instagram', Henry Selick (its director) was fired halfway through production and that's why things went so badly later (I got this from the video "The Stop motion of Henry Selick" by Doodley, btw).

[@FFVison]

Just checked the IMDB page... yep, there's Frank Welker. I knew that if there were this many talents in this game, he had to be maybe half of them. That man has voiced the half of my childhood that wasn't voiced by Mel Blanc. Yeah, there were a few others, but seriously, between those 2...

[@FFVison]

Blanc is likely a last name nod to famed voice actor, Mel Blanc, but also "Drew Blanc" very predicably has a creative block. Also, the bunny he created in the past was named Flux Wildly. Sure, this is likely a nod to the Flux Capacitor which Doc Brown from Back To The Future (also played by Christopher Lloyd) invented to power the time circuits of his time machine. However, as this is a bunny, he also likely does something else wildly, something that looks a lot like Flucks... Hmm...

[@mattyboy2024]

Got this game, not played it since the 90s but loved it, the cartoon aesthetic, music, humour which yes could be pretty adult at times ha. In the last few years been playing Discworld for the 1st time, which has similarities but brutally hard illogical puzzles, still haven't motivated myself to finish it ha

[@Vakantscull]

20:20 I have that book...

[@YouTubeMrP]

1:14 “the game’s big draw” like draw like a cartoon like drawing. Hahahahaha. Sorry. I’m very tired.

[@thebrettyouneed178]

Convinced point&click adventures will make a comeback one day

[@michaelbacon5278]

This is exactly what's wrong with point and clicks

[@PieGuyDie]

Man, I love this channel. 👍

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Thank y'kindly!

[@swempytimes]

That Cyborg from SQ4 is going to haunt me forever

[@speedincooper]

I remember getting so stuck on this game. It turned out that the original version of the game I was playing had a timed puzzle that was dependent on the speed of your processor. So I had to install a 3rd party program to nerf my processor speed just to get past this. I'm hoping they fixed this in the GoG version. Oh and I love the fact you can pick up a literal red herring that does nothing.

[@HrvojeGrahovac]

Keith Arem's first gig as VO director

[@primokarma9841]

So you're saying, if I just start drawing hentai , I will eventually get transported into hentai world??? The only point & click adventure games I really enjoyed are Nick Bounty and the 7 days a stranger series ....plus Runescape if that counts?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Just don't draw any tentacles

[@primokarma9841]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum you’re not the boss of me

[@arostwocents]

Creepiest post of the day 😂 ..the day two years ago ofc lol

[@Zirus_Blackheart]

Thx for the spoiler warning :-)

[@BirtBiggler]

Funhaus fans assemble 🤞🏼