FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
Prepare for a taste of Paradise - only trouble is the
Weeks family is on the menu. But rather than make a
right Wally of yourself, read Rachael Smith's review of
Three Weeks in Paradise, the new feast from
Mikro-Gen. Dinner is served!
Every year thousands of wallies
on their hollies, but there's only
one Wally and neither he nor the
missis nor even Herbert. The
nipper, come within that notoric
18-30 age range. So Wally, being wally,
decided on a pleasure cruise... on the
HMS Pedalo!
Eventually the gormless mariner was
washed up on a desert island, and when
the natives said come to dinner he was
thrilled. But he didn't realise that the first
course was to be Boiled Baby followed
by Sauteed Spouse. And as Wilma's
always been a game old bird they were
keeping her hanging around first. Her
parting cry was to call her hubbie a
stupid pudding, but that was the last
thing he wanted to be - and he was
already hot-footing it into the jungle.
And that's where this episode in the
Wally saga begins. You're helping him
rescue his family and stopping him
getting... sorry, becoming somebody's
just desserts. You just have the man
(man?) himself to control this time, but
other features make the game an
advance.
Instead of just swopping objects you
can now choose to pick up and drop
things as well as having to use them in
the right places. That means
Rambo-wally's rescue mission calls for
even more ingenuity. There's also a nice
selection of puzzles, from the fairly
obvious to the maddeningly difficult, but
they all depend on acute lateral thinking
and horrible puns.
In return there's less of the arcade
element this time with fewer things to
dodge. But the thing I liked best about
Three Weeks was its humour. There's a
speech bubble Ouch as he rubs his
behind. And look out too for the scrolling
message line at the bottom of the
screen that conveys some screamingly
cryptic clues, as well as the family's
cries of help.
And finally fed up with reviewers'
constant grumbles about attribute
problems, Mikro-Gen has included the
option of switching off Wally's colouring.
A word too for the music - it's great,
and it adds a lot to the humour. A great
game that just goes to show that even if
he's too old for Club 18-30, Wally's not
past it yet.
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