OMG!! i'm so excited!!! i can't wait to play it =)

YAY!! I'm so happy!! Jay you rock!

I visited the link this morning but got side tracked before I could finish working with Sly. Thanks for the reminder. :D

Wow what a sweet game, I love the solution to Sly, makes ya think- this flash rocks!!!

I feel so sorry for him ;o; He's so cute!

I havent played any of those earlier, guess I didnt think there could be anything interesting even when Jay kept saying how good they were. Well, I dont know if I actually LIKED them, but I couldnt stop playing thats for sure.

I mean, those WERE stuffed animals, right? Why I felt so sorry for them then? Very few games can make you really FEEL something beside anger and hate.

Great stuff. Strange, but great. And I dont think Rockstar will ever make anything equal :)

Cute game! But, I'm stuck. Can anyone give me a hint for Lilo? Thx.
Amy

Why, oh why, doesn't Sly show up for us? We can't find him any where. We even cured all of the other animals again, thinking then we would see him...
I normally don't like snakes, but, I think I would have like Sly. I really love krok so much...
Any hints on how to find the snake?

Christina

Tonypa - I haven't given this game the in-depth review it deserves. You touched on the primary reason I love this game so much: This game communicates emotion better than any other Flash game I have played. The animation is extraordinary. More interactive narrative than a 'game' per se, though it does have game-like qualities.

Amy - keep trying! =) I wish I could give you the correct sequence of therapies to try. I just kept on trying different things until he got better. =)

Christina - If you are playing this game by clicking a link here on my site, then you should see Sly upon entering the double doors where Crok, Lilo and Dolly are waiting.

Amy, there is help (hints) system built into the game. I used it all the time to get poor animals cured :)

Christina, I dont understand how you can not find the snake, its right there in the waiting room with other 3. Did you use the link in the review? And I dont know about other languages, but it surely works in English version. You dont have to look for the Sly in any special way.

I figured out what was wrong with Sly. It was so much fun. I felt so bad for him after. I wanted to give him a big hug!

I loved it! Thanks for telling us of the update, jay. After the first one, I wasn't sure I could ever love a fake, animated, stuffed animal more than I loved Lilo, but Sly is running a close second.

And to all of you having struggles with the game, just keep on clicking. There doesn't seem to be any definite rhyme or reason to this game. The answer will come.

Wow, this game was very cute and actually kinda accurate compared to actual trauma therapy.

I agree, Sly's problem and solution were very cute/funny.

I love it. A snake trying to do yoga... the kind that hurts. I love it. So cute *huggles poor animals*

That was such a wonderful game. I felt so badly for the little crocodile... when I finished helping him, I nearly cried...

Jay, you're awesome!! I love this game!!!

Thanks!

Thanks, Shastanna - I'm glad you love it! It's one of my favorites.

YES! I cured all the animals. This game is really fun. I hope they add some more animals soon. Maybe a cat or a bird would be nice.

Definitely one of my favorite games ever. The way you progress through the story of each toy is brilliantly done, and you actually end up feeling for them.. Lilo and Sly are easily the best and funniest characters. Though Dolly's condition was very interesting.

The only drawback is trying to explain to other people how great it is..
You tell them you have to cure cuddly toys of mental illness and you get very strange looks.

My opinions on the animals:

Dolly; I just thought her condition was HILARIOUS. It's funny to see that kind of thing illustrated in that fashion.

Kroko; Oh jeez, no wonder he's completely paranoid. I think that he was the most abused and had the most defensive mechanisms. Loved the trippy scenes though.

Lilo; This one is done very well, and a very creative scenario too. Probably the most emotional of the four.

Sly; Sly's problem was subtle and pretty damn cool. I liked it when he left and you heard the music from his owners.

I tried to keep spoilers to a minimum! It was a great game.

OK, I was finally able to get the snake, by clicking on a different link than the one that says "click" and also by reclicking allow pop=ups from this site.

But now, when I get to the second session with Sly, and I try to do ANYTHING all I get is a 'loading' and then I wait, and then nothing ever happens.

Is that how it's supposed to be? I didn't have difficulties with any of the other animals...

thanks again,

Christina

No, Christina, that's not the same behavior I experience no matter what link I click on.

When you click on an animal in the lobby, the game loads the respective Flash movie. Once the movie is finished downloading, you should be able to play it immediately.

Try clearing your browser cache, and start again. Other than that, I'm not sure what else to suggest. What OS and browser are you using?

AOL 9.0, and Internet Explorer (a later version).

I think I will clear my cache. This is really frustrating me!!

Are you accessing my site through AOL, or are you coming here directly using IE? I would try the latter if you are still experiencing trouble, since I don't use AOL I cannot test it myself.

Ok, forgot to write your name above (have an autofill, so...)
Anyway...
What happened is, I found out about your site from another site I go to. (www.volition.com). Also, when I went to the asylum after the snake came, two windows would pop up, one very small, and one normal sized. I always x'ed out of the small one, not thinking of re-loading because of a new character added (a new game).
I finally got to meet sly, and, I have to say, I have never remembered my teenage years so clearly...*G*
He was a bit easy to cure though.
I still love Kroko the most. He reminds me of almost every man I know, playing tough, to hide the 'fluff'
My favorite part (besides when he pulls the puppet's head off) is when he calls her over and flashes his badge.
I love the gator and want to protect him.
Do I need help?
Thanks,
Christina

I solved Dolly.Poor thing. I can see why they are selling physical stuffed animals of these charecters...you feel so sorry for them, you can't help but want to take them home!

wow how much do i love this game! it's such a great sense of achievement at the end when they're all cured... i got quite emotional *wipes away tear*

yay! i cured them all!!

is there anyway to save the game?

This is hillarious! I've not cured a single animal yet - but they are SO funny!

Only solved sly, I love this game.

Oh my god this game is so hilariously cute.

The most cute game ever!

Haha that game rocks!! totally!!! I cured Sly:). I cured all the others, but he was my fave :).

all he need was a maraca in his tail. do music therapy for the maraca and do dream analysis and stuff and DONT DO YOGA, IT HURTS HIM BAAAAD. Get to the point where you can do surgery, and he is cured :).

This game is so good I've tryed to cure all the patients but I've only cured Lilo and Sly
Dolly's animations are so funny! If anyone hasn't cured lilo yet here are some hints

-Alison

I have a problem... I was working with Kroko and got to the point where he had a washer-woman dream, and then the hot-water-bottle reflection dream, but now the clipboard's gone and it seems like the only option I have is the electric shock thingy. Do I do it?

Never mind. I figured things out.

I've cured them all except Lilo, he is now stuck with his gameboy thing and can only interview or drugs

Can anyone help me with lilo she just plays tht game and then she won't quit!! HELP!!!!!

OK, solution for Lilo, first three steps in one spoiler

Now one step per spoiler

Maybe this game has changed, but the spoilers don't work for Lilo. After the first 3 steps, paint therapy is not an option. Dream analysis, crisis line, and motivation training are the only available options. Boo.

This is such a fantastic game! I cured them all and was obsessive over it, I spent so long playing it! I have a question about Lilo's past.

I LOVE this game. The story and concept are simply awesome, and it was overall well executed. I have a question though...

Aww! Sly is cute but i still like Krocko more! ^_^

ive finally cured Sly too, where does the Doc come up with all these amazing pasts of the dollys?

Cheers Jay!

xXx

Yay Game was great but what do you do when you have cured them all?

i'v finished except for sly

I've played these games quite a lot, and yet somehow I never get tired of them! My personal favorite is Kroko, I don't exactly know why. He just pushes the right buttons, or something along those lines.

I have to agree, this game actually made me feel sorry for the critters. Although I felt sorrier for Syd at one point than I did at the end...

Anyway, yeah, Kroko and Syd made me go "That's so sad!" and Dolly was amusing-but-makes-you-think when I finally figured out what was going on. Oh, and I loved listening to the motivation therapy tapes :)...some of them were amusing, and some of them actually encouraged me! I found Lilo a little weird up until a certain point (and she's the one I started with so I wasn't sure how I was going to like the game seeing as she was weirding me out a little), but I was so proud of her when

and then again when

cw - in answer to why Lilo obsesses about the jigsaw -

Shivers - about those dreams -

OMG! I killed Kroko! I Like Kroko and Dolly the best. I didn't know what to do! His status bar was all red and the last thing I did was give him shock therapy!

Did anyone else notice all of the humor snuck in to that game? Like the "no hanging" sign in the waiting room, or the fact that the person who picks up Lilo is the same girl who threw Sly out of the window?

I love this game! It's so much fun to try and solve all of their problems without help, and even the wrong results are sometimes fun to see. However, I got a bit creeped out when the picture started talking to sly about his libido... But over all it was a great game!

awww that was so sweet

I wasn't sure what to expect, but that was great. You really do develope a connection to the little toys. The variations you could get were surprising as well. I had a couple slip back a few notches in treatment due to poor choices on my part, though I can't say I ever let any of mine go into the red and the help was helpful without spoiling things too much. Dolly gave me the most trouble treatmentwise but nothing insurmountable. (One problem was that at one point, I had all options crossed out, might have been a game bug)

Kroko was probably my favorite. So cute...

BTW:

Whenever I try do choose Sly it says there's an error. i remember this happening like 2 years ago or whenever sly first appeared, and i was hoping it would have been fixed. is it a mac thing? the rest of them work. anyone else having this problem? any ideas?

For the people who dont want a walkthrough but need help, here are the patient's problems.

kat:
Lilo is a HIPPO, not a cow-thingy!

Without using the "Professional Help" technique, I never would have finished this, as it would have been trial and error throughout. However, the point that was made before should be made again. This game, unlike probably any flash game I've played, really makes one feel something for the characters. It's very strange, and I found myself looking around the empty room to make sure no one was around to see me saying "awwww" to a computer monitor. Great game, though, and I like the idea of multiple endings, and alternate paths.

On a side note, it's interesting to note that for those of us in the US, it's cheaper to buy the plush dolls from the European site than from this US-based "Schmancy" site. The mark-up on the US site is about $7 per animal, and domestic shipping is higher than necessary as well. I find it hard to believe that shipping ½ pound domestically costs $9. In the end, I found it was cheapest to get either all four from the European site, or, if all four aren't available there, get three from there and one from the US site.

By the by, has anyone figured out the way to get into the negative (red) progress with all of the animals? I got there with Lilo and Kroko, but not the others.

Awesome game, but AAGH! I cured all the animals, but what do I get? An empty waiting room? Not much of an ending to me. If they just wrote a decent ending, this game would be the closest to perfect I have ever seen. If anyone wants a walkthrough, post.

I think the reason all you get is an empty room when you finish is because they're adding more animals in the future, seeing as how they added the snake after they put out the game, I think they are adding more throughout the game.
Personally, I hope they do it that way. Or else the game would be really boring to play again with the same animals.

What a sweetheart of a game. Poor little guys, made me want to kick their owners. I had the most trouble with Lilo, almost lost him, but brought him back with double doses of talk and dreams.

A winner Jay!! Thanks!

Need walkthrough awesome game.

loved the game but it took quite a while for me to figure out it all. I wasn't able to avoid electrocuting my animals at least once (which means starting over from the beginning) but it seems like every time that happens you get a little more info. The toughest one for me was Lilo.

I wished there was more to the ending rather than just being left with an empty room. Like, the nurse walking in to congratulate me or seeing the animals be adopted by more loving new owners.

Also, I didn't like how your progress is lost if you click on the door to the reception in the middle of the game. I already finished curing kroco, and I clicked on the door, and then I have to cure kroco from the beginning. sucks. I wished there was a saving feature.

I agree that it should've been made clear that the "professional advice" feature is essential to solving the game. But perhaps that's part of the trial-and-error process. In any case, there are occasions where the professional advice was so vague that it didn't help.

Also, I might just be really dumb, but I didn't really understand what happened to the animals...

Kroko is my def fav

one of the best flash interactive story i've ever played! And also one of the best promotional tool for teddy bears i've ever seen.
Big up to its creators

Okay. I'm working with the snake. I am at the point where

and I have tried EVERYTHING. The book is telling me to

but that doesn't change the situation or give me further options. I've literally tried everything, and I've done this one thing multiple times. What is up with this? Anyone have any thoughts?

I love this game, but somehow, I always begin to feel sorry for the animals. Silly me. After all-they're only stuffed.

it is the best game ever but its freaky

for the hippo the first thing you need to do is the dream analysis

oh and whatever you do dont give the hippo the video game and then the phone it's really really bad

somebody PLEASE post a walkthrough im so stuck!!!!!!

Tom - this game really isn't amenable to a walk through. You just have to keep trying different types of treatments. although i will tell you

I ADORE THIS GAME! And Ive been hearing about syd. is there syd or did they mean to say sly? i cured lilo! im saving up to get 135 dollars to buy the ones they have on the site.

its really hard and kind of creepy:( :)

Golly, that might be one of the best, deepest, most expansive Flash games I've ever had the pleasure to play. Between that and the Grow games this is a Golden Age for Flash.
I don't think it's the kinda game that you could write a walk-through for, though. Just a lot of trial and error. And heed the tips listed above: avoid shock therapy, lots of dream analysis, and use drugs sparingly if at all.

I did kroko, i feel so sorry for him like evryone elese, weird how this game does that.

i just found out what was wrong with kroko it was so sad, this game is very touching somehow.

This is a unique presentation. As tonypa and other pointed out earlier, it evokes emotions unlike any other game I can recollect. Lilo made me laugh out loud. You are put in a position to help someone, rather than destroy or score more points than them. Yet you feel a sense of accomplishment when they are "cured" :-) Cool stuff. I'd like to see more games like this. I still like my shmups best but this was a nice grounding diversion.

i love the game!!! and i cant wait for a new animal!!! i was thinking a turtle or something....i don't know. i love Kroko and dolly <3<3<3

Awesome game, pretty trippy, but not the kind of thing you want to play at 4 AM, though.
It reminds me of the time I stayed up for 3 days straight and then chugged a caffeine drink...
Except the game was a lot more coherent.
Or when you've just had too much sugar.

Loved the game, obsessed over it, and it was very, very well made.

I know it's been said before, but the only downside is curing them all and walking outside, and all you get is an empty waiting room.

lol, that was cute ^0^ I think Sly was the hardest to cure (or maybe I was just not lucky, picking the wrong therapy over and over again). And never thought he would be cured THAT way :))

Woah! There's a new stuffed critter to play as: a turtle or tortise with a skipping rope! I gotta help that guy out.

Whoops: the tortise won't be available for treatment until the end of this month. This game must have a public health care system.

Wow! That was so cute, I don't think I've ever played a game that touchingly composed before.

My favorite was Dolly, then Sly.

Although my favorite part was Sly's

There's a turtle in the waiting room who isn't treatable yet, but it says he will be when November ends. I'm looking forward to coming back.

I was replaying and eventually failed so badly with Lilo that I wasn't allowed to treat her anymore. Has this happened with any other animals?

Yes. With each patient, there is a way to screw them up so badly that the doctor must resort to electroshock therapy.
That is generally considered a bad thing, though.

As it turns out, the tortoise's name is Dub, and is compulsively hyperactive. Someone should make an update referring to him. He needs all the help he can get.

You can treat the turtle now. I'm still working on him - but i have to say - so cute and touching so far. I love this game.

I love it! But can someone give me some help with sly? or lilo? stuck on them! tanxs for any help!

p.s. i think dolly is easiest

and i've been playing this for soooooooooo long! its really good!

trying to cure dub and got stuck - can anyone help me?

I am having major issues with Dub! I have gotten him to the point where he takes his shell off, but anything I do after that eventually leads him to sobbing horribly and not responding to anything I do. I just feel so bad for him; can someone please help?

I'm done!!!!
sly was easiest...

Dub seems to be waiting for next patient? If he is sitting on his shell, may have to go through several boxes of tissues.

HANDS DOWN..

BEST GAME I've played in a while! It's sooo cute and sad at the same time!! I'm biased cause this game, to me, is my first love for I do love many games I've found here on Jayisgames and is the reason why I keep coming back to this AWESOME site for new games.

I never thought I'd almost tear up watching these animals go through their rehabilitation phases! They need to make more of these!! Any other games like this out there??

oh, i got everyone but dub. everybody, i will soon make a spolier for all of these little guys. i wanted to buy kroko, but i couldnt figure out the price in american dollars! i read someone's comment and t said that it was $135!!! >_< i'd be better off sewing my own plushie!

I'm totally stuck on Dub. He's crying on his shell, and it sounds like almost everyone else is having this problem. The only thing I have left to do is shock him again but I don't want to in case I lose all of my past progress :(

Sigh.
I am so heart-broken for Dub.
I'm also stuck where he's just crying and crying.

Anybody got a hint so's we can end his misery???

Jay, thanks for the post btw. Seriously lovely game!

Ummm....walkthrough for all of them, gathered in one neat post, please?

for those of you stuck on dub (the tortoise), i got hm to resolve his issues.

When i reached the point where he was just crying and nothing would work, i went back and solved another animals problems, then came back to him.

After that i went through each option twice, then left him sitting while i took a phone call, then tried dream analysis again, and he was fixed.

i think the professional opinion says he needs some time to accept his loss, so maybe you just need him to wait for a while?

WALKTHROUGH
(please try really hard and use professional assistance to help you out before reading spoilers)

STORIES

O.O.. What is the therapist/hand doing when she/it is squeezing the snake's rattle? Something

For those stuck on Dub:

After he recovers, does Sly

Oh my goodness, I love this game. All of the stuffed animals are adorable- my personal favorite is Sly, and then Kroko, and then the raven (forgot his name-haven't played in a while). This game took a lot of thinking andit was fun to see all the reactions to the wrong things (which I saw quite a lot XD ).

Love it! :)