Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!
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A decent Argentinian point & click adventure game, heavily styled after Monkey Island. Good presentation with quality visuals, music and voice acting, although the interpolated animation makes it look better in stills than in motion.
The humor has a few quality moments, though in general it is far too naif to put a dent in the more cynical and mean-spirited classics, and some of its jokes simply do not stick the landing. It is quite humorous, however, to be tasked with getting Sir Isaac Newton to stop wasting time writing Harry Potter fanfiction.
Puzzles range from very simple to reasonably complex, by and large successfully sidestepping moon logic but keeping things abstract enough to not be too obvious. It does however fall in the trap of having the player pick up a dozen items without any rhyme or reason long before a use for them can be found, which can lead to a bit of confusion here and there.
It's not quite as simplistic to be outright dismissed as little Jimmy's first adventure game, but it could very well serve that purpose if you have a kid you want to introduce to the point&click genre, in which case best of luck to you.
The humor has a few quality moments, though in general it is far too naif to put a dent in the more cynical and mean-spirited classics, and some of its jokes simply do not stick the landing. It is quite humorous, however, to be tasked with getting Sir Isaac Newton to stop wasting time writing Harry Potter fanfiction.
Puzzles range from very simple to reasonably complex, by and large successfully sidestepping moon logic but keeping things abstract enough to not be too obvious. It does however fall in the trap of having the player pick up a dozen items without any rhyme or reason long before a use for them can be found, which can lead to a bit of confusion here and there.
It's not quite as simplistic to be outright dismissed as little Jimmy's first adventure game, but it could very well serve that purpose if you have a kid you want to introduce to the point&click genre, in which case best of luck to you.