Manufacturer: Tivola
Appeared: 1999
Hardware: 486 CPU, 8 MB Ram, 4 MB video card, sound card
Rating: 7 / 10
USK: No classification
test environment:
AMD Turion X64, 512 MB Ram, ATI Radeon 1100 Mobile (bug in XP)
486DX2 66 MHz, 256 MB Ram, Hercules Dynamite 8 MB (Easy Windows 95)
Who does not know? The radio drama series for the 4 amateur detectives Tim, Karl, dumplings and Gabi, well actually 5, Oscar the Cocker Spaniel is also one at that. But can listen in while the radio plays the interested consumer is not there also something to play along.
The four friends sitting in front of an ice cream from a concerned fellow comes and says that his girlfriend Katja's been gone three days. Even so TKKG sit in a new case and take over the search for Katja. Since the player get to the train. In the form of one of the 4 friends is to pedal there are different places to have conversations, circumstantial evidence and procure, to see Katja and finally make a group of bank robbers arrested.
The main screen is the map TKKG the city, leave this to go about it using the mouse, select various locations that you need sooner or later in the game. On the screens themselves runs throughout like a typical point and click adventure from, so we investigated objects, of which there are not many, or talking to people. Each person on various members of the gang TKKG respond differently. So there for example a friend of the disappeared only Gabi Katja Katja is the lead on where to find. In the second part of the game but then this nice feature is obsolete because you travel only with the whole group.
Another problem is the control, you can place only one question and must then leave the screen as the game the second question then does not show more that clicking but degenerates into some back and forth until finally comes the crucial clue, or do not, then does the same thing going on with the next member. Some things eg sniffing in the computer even happen in the very tight time limit. What particularly for the younger target group actually very likely to be frustrating.
The whole thing is very carefully staged and drawn, despite that there is only a Macromedia Flash application. are even small animations in the statues there.
The setting is done well, but is the only speaker of the original narrator, but also the replacement speaker TKKG the band do their job well. The ambient sounds are well staged and appropriately, it sounds like a boat house on the lake, a busy street sounds like that, and much more. There
The story and the puzzles are advised, however, very short, so it only 6 objects, otherwise it is only people with the right character to ask the right questions to really combine what does not exist. The only real puzzle is to find out a code of a code wheel. However, experienced adventure games are here, too quickly to the solution. But it is children that will make you hard nut teeth and finish the game in frustration.
Comment:
The story is exciting, beautiful graphics, the soundtrack is good, unfortunately messes up the game a little in detail issues such as the mystery density, which is now very low, I had the game in spite of trial and error with different characters in an hour to complete. The control is not completely thought through, which always go back to the location to another question put to annoying very quickly. Nevertheless, it is fun TKKG in solving the case to help. Furthermore, there is also a (hopefully tasty) chocolate cake recipe and the aforementioned code disk for printing. Meanwhile, the remaining 16 games of the series have been published.
problems: The game
zickt huge on Windows Versions that were published after NT 4.0 or Windows Millennium. Even the installation reports an error here can also install Anyway. Very critical it is if you do not handle the final task in the time limit. Then the game crashes without being able to save. On Windows 95 this error does not occur.
References:
at Amazon and EBay, there is the game currently only used by single price of 0.01 € to 2.50 €. This is it still the collectors edition of the first 3 parts for € 24.50 With a little luck you can find the game even in junk shops or Woolworth as TEDI, the latter stems from my version.
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