One day Bud is actually on the dead surface a Gäseblume, of which he would like to tell Jim. Unfortunately, Bud falls towards the excursion through a hole and his best friend sets off in search of him. On his way he meets all kinds of strange inhabitants of the ground, especially the conspiratorial ants seem very suspicious. But our protagonist-cockroach fights his way through puzzles and dangers like a little hero.
Who turned the room?
There are so few specifics in this title, I do not want to share with you. Probably the strongest proportion has claimed to control the camera itself. Since you're playing a cockroach, you can crawl up walls also. Here, the camera view moves with the cockroach, she turns the room so each time so that the cockroach is always horizontal display. This can be very tiring, as soon as you. More consecutively high walls and runterkrabbelt and especially in ventilation shafts, which also like to have a step is done unintentionally and vertigo already knocking loudly on the skull Nevertheless, it remains a cool feature and makes things ever interesting.
Furthermore, the characters do not communicate in dialogues in the classical sense, but it popping balloons to where is explained pictorially, what to do, what they are talking or what anyone thinks. Mostly the little pictures then bring a soothing Schmunzler with itself and testify pleasant humor, which finds itself in the game of the funniest places. So it happens that you can only be separated by a wash in the washing machine of an adhesive paste to you by fly and then will be replaced with a tadaaa again. Or playing with rubber ducks a lullaby, by which an opponent is put into a slumber.
What has me unfortunately undeveloped, are the maggots that have been placed spread in hidden or hard to reach places in the game. I noticed no appreciable effect or collecting statistics if you have all found or the like. They are simply there and can be collected. Joah ok. Then I collect them halt. A health or hunger advertisement does not exist and etweder I slept in explaining or I was not present. Well, there is just maggots you can collect. Is it possible to collect, but you do not.
The puzzles are relatively simple and unambiguous. One can find so fast result. What turns out to be more difficult is finding the objects. Because it will not, as we are used to at Daedalic, all interaction enabled objects displayed, but you have to painstakingly scour everything and is never sure if you really took everything out of the room.
Bunker Blues
Graphically Journey of a Roach is not a masterpiece, but quite playable. It feels somehow still around, as if there especially in the technical implementation is rather some hakelig and still air upward. The cutscenes are held in another Comcisstil than the normal gameplay. The taste I would have been more in favor of keeping the entire game in comic style the cutscenes, then the technical shortcomings would be less.
The music is atmospheric and fits perfectly into the bleak and bizarre environment. With schägen tones, minimalist style and in between extremely funny. This fits well into the overall picture purely and makes things around.
Conclusion
Journey of a Roach is a worthy beginning of a series that will hopefully passed through. The open end and cuddly humor make you want more and when the teething problems are again tackled the issue could be nice continued. Anyone who point & click Adventures opposite is not averse, you should get this game and give him a chance. Due to the relatively short or actually too short playing time, you're also arrived quickly at the end, and can look back on a few hours entertainment back. Warms your heart for this courageous cute cockroach, Bud has hopefully many adventures before him!
