Let us begin once the graphics. Already were very promising advance to admiring artwork, the final implementation is as though still a lot of it.
Each of the 60 venues is a feast for the eyes, the backgrounds are created with love and an incredible attention to detail. Wherever you look, there is something to discover everywhere, everything is wonderful match and also very atmospheric lighting. Whether falling snow or in the wind overriding leaves, on each scenario was evident placed great emphasis.
This care also extends to the characters do not stop: With sophisticated facial expressions and lip sync, they act very much alive, the movements and postures are typical of each character and also adapted to the situations.
In this way one feels from the beginning probably in this game, you do not rush just from puzzle to puzzle, but is like to stand to enjoy the view.
Excellent succeeded is also the sound. With 40 specially composed pieces, some of which can evolve into real earwigs, each scene is accompanied atmospheric.
Neither the speech must hide. With the German dubbing voices of Mel Brooks, among others, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie or Whoopi Goldberg is a truly stellar cast.
The story is nothing special, it is not as if King Art since reinvented the wheel. But that's also not's. If you look at it closely, has been in the field of fantasy just about anything before in some form since. What is so special bout, is the humorous implementation. The story abounds namely before allusions to various books, movies and games, if Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Terry Pratchett to World of Warcraft, it can be found a bit of everything again.
About Humor one stumbles at bout almost everywhere, it starts with the loading screen before each new chapter, resent the Erdwichtel, THAT CONDITION magic, roll a 20, hiding bugs' they wrote, while the progress bar fills. I found nice.
The nice thing is, bout not trying to be funny and convulsively to produce gags by the meter as for example the new Simon the Sorcerer is the case. Rather, these deposits are interspersed clever, and really only where they fit absolutely so. No slapstick, no plump-stupid jokes and no bugging up to embarrassment; up on Monkey Iceland has until now actually brought ready no other adventure.
Well I also liked that each character has its own personality.
Nevertheless, the story is nothing really new, it's quite exciting design, many say it would level off somewhat towards the end (I can not judge, I'm not quite through). Anyway, worse than at the time of his so highly praised, Dreamfall 'it can not be! Since I have done this to me, I hardly encourages a conclusion more on).
The puzzles depth at Bout is the only thing a little disappointed me, I would have wished decided crisp. So the puzzles are indeed varied, but sometimes a bit worn but always fair advised properly difficult are not there and you almost always know what you have to do next. Amazingly, but you can live with it, simply because the overall composition convinces.
Thus one gets for example in brewing a potion a pretty good idea of how Neville Longbottom must feel from Harry Potter well, if something goes wrong and times flies one of the third boiler to the ears.
In addition, none of these unspeakable stopgap as the well-known box shifting puzzles etc. have been installed, which always are used if the developers think of anything better more - or the playing time must be artificially extended.
As for this, with 15-20 hours (depending on the amount of time you can be) bout is not manage to connect with such epic lengths such as, The Longest Journey ', now you have to be thankful already when an adventure over 10 hours of gameplay features - and there Bout is considerably higher than the current average.
It is controlled purely by mouse and is sometimes a little bit hakelig if you want to select, for example something in your inventory. I find it not so tragic, when Bout you have time. Since not every mouse click fit perfectly right away, because you would otherwise be sent by a horde of monsters to chew beetle in the sand, you try it just for a second time and then also klappts.
Bugs are not met me, the game is running with me so far smoothly and without problems * on keyboard tapping. *
My Conclusion:
Adventures are not in vain own genre under the Games, as well as adventure fans are a little people for themselves. These are the people who like it a little more comfortable, which may be inspired for successful graphic effects and gimmicks, like listen to a long dialogues without them click away annoyed, appreciate the genuine sense of humor and would rather tackle a problem first with brains instead first draufzuhauen.
To whom this is true, for the is The Book of Unwritten Tales is an absolute must-have, even if you are not a beginner in this genre more.
Only rarely experienced it a game in which the developers with such recognizable care, love and enthusiasm have been in the matter, and even if the puzzles really are too simple, it's beautiful to look at and listen to, there are several laughs and makes easy fun. For me now the Adventure of the year, full marks and a strong buy recommendation!
