| Bamba Snack Quest 1-3 | Gal Mamalya | 2007 | |
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This free advergame series was made as advertisement for an Israeli snack. These fun, quirky little point-and-click diversions star a large-headed, unusually plucky baby who must traverse land, sea and even across the street to rescue his beloved bamba snacks from the clutches of an evil squirrel (and then, when things take a turn for the weird, from a giant mosquito). Happily, in addition to being charming, the Bamba Snack Quests are also clever, entertaining and well-made. The gameplay is of the "clear a path" variety, in which the player must utilize elements of each scene in the correct order and combination in order to proceed. Quest 1 is comprised of eight unlockable chapters, all of which are now available online; Quest 2 (2008) has seven to solve. The Quests have a wonderful, cheerful sense of aesthetics. Cartoony characters are combined with colorful, almost photorealistic environments, creating a sort of Roger Rabbit-like juxtaposition of the lifelike and fanciful. The puzzles are, admittedly, somewhat uneven; some chapters are ingeniously clever, some simple, and others head-scratchingly unintuitive. This, along with obnoxiously long load times, is the biggest drawback to an otherwise excellent series. Quest 3 (2011) - The baby is trying to rescue a squirrel from a UFO and involves stealing the cane from a geriatric robot amongst other surreal yet intensely cute scenes. | ||
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