Monkey's Adventures

Monkey's Adventures
"Bring us some coffee, because we're tired playing this game." - Romek, apprently
Protagonist(s): Tytus Genre(s): Platform Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Release Date: May 30, 2005 Engine: IC Engine Developer(s): Calaris Studios Publisher(s): Play Publishing Country: Poland

Monkey's Adventures is a platform game developed by Calaris Studios and published by Play Publishing on May 30, 2005 for Microsoft Windows. It is based on the Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek comic book series by Henryk Chmielewski, who also went under the pseudonym of "Papcio Chmiel".

Plot

One day, Tytus, Romek and A'Tomek visit Professor T.Alent, who has showed a machine that would allow everyone to be happy forever, though as a side effect, it even resulted in various people coming to the professor angry. One night, the professor didn't clean anything, causing an evil robot to come to life and kidnap him, forcing Tytus to save T.Alent.

Why It's No Adventure

1. Despite being directed towards younger audience, the plot is so stupid and crazy. Basically, three characters visit a professor that presented a machine that did an opposite thing than it was intended to do, and then the professor doesn't clean anything and an evil robot captures him after coming to life.
2. The main menu looks horrible and looks more like a menu for a cheaply made Unity game that was still in an Alpha state. The main menu is present in a box with text, with the title from the game's covers not being present anywhere.
3. Awful graphics that can cause strong vomiting just from looking at them. The game was released in 2005, but the graphics look like a Nintendo 64 game or a 1996 DOS game. The models look especially horrible as they look like someone ate and split them out and then poured some water on them, giving a really ugly look, which is very unimpressive for 2005, even games such as Sonic Heroes, Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 and Ratchet & Clank look better than this.
4. Terrible voice acting. In the Polish version, Professor T. Alent sometimes sounds like a student who learns to dub or an actor who has a mutated voice, while Romek's and A'Tomek's voices cause ear bleeding. In the English version, T.Alent sounds like Russian who learns English, Tytus sounds like a gigantic chipmunk, and Romek and A'Tomek sound like 12-year-old German preteens.
5. Various grammatical errors, such as "To complete a task, you have 1,000 moments."
6. This game is extremely unstable. One time the player would fall through platform, resulting in cheap deaths, the other time the game would downright crash. Other bugs exist, such as a bug where falling into one spot will cause a pitch black model of Tytus appear T-posing upside down while duplicates appear.
7. Horrendous controls; Tytus moves like a truck on a frozen water, and sometimes he reacts to your input with a delay. Sometimes he doesn't even respond and tends to do stuff you don't want him to do, such as throwing coconuts when trying to make him roll.
8. Ungodly short; the game can be beaten in 30 minutes, which could be more suitable for an Adobe Flash game, not for a 2005 PC game released on the disc and sold in stores.
9. Weird concept for the method of defeating the final boss; it can only be defeated by throwing coconuts.
10. The enemies' A.I. is lifeless; most of the time, the enemies don't move and just wait until you destroy them. It's as if they didn't want to be in the game and just got bored instantly and simply wanted you to destroy them so that they can get out of the game.
11. Somewhat low connection to the comic books. Out of all things the game has a connection to the comics, they're the title in the Polish version and the characters, as the others are like something that belongs to a different game.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Good soundtrack.
2. Despite the plot being pretty bad, it is original and not taken from the comic series.

Reception

Monkey's Adventures has been panned by revieweres, praising the soundtrack but criticizing the gameplay, graphics and the unstability. On Gamepressure, the game has a 4.0/10 rating from users.

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