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When the Unfinished Business Departedment lose deceased cheerleader Janet Burdie's paperwork, they offer her a unique opportunity in recompense. Rather than dealing with it for her, the departedment offer the chance to take her own second chance, by winning the Campus Cake Competition. The graphics are reminiscent of the lower-resolution style of the early LucasArts games, with clear detail and good use of colour to make even smaller items fairly easy to locate and identify. The game is also well animated, especially the undead protagonist, who has one foot that drags when she walks and a highly toothy grin when she is pleased with her actions. Sound effects like the gurgling of a coffee machine are well supported by a dramatic soundtrack. This background music serves to make the relatively mundane cake-making activities feel like a great heroic undertaking. As may be gathered from the story, the zombie protagonist does not make this a horror game; its humour quickly coming to the fore. But there is also a more serious story, with Janet having the chance to set right something that went wrong after she died. In the short space of the game, both stories are brought to a satisfying conclusion. In your quest for culinary excellence, you will use your own bones in unusual ways and have to deal with a strange appliance support line. Control is point-and-click, using a small verb list including the zombie-specific “Bite” action. Most puzzles revolve around inventory, though there is also a clever riddle based around someone else’s secret recipe. |
