Rabbits are blue and red, seals enjoy sea shells, and foxes make successful hotel owners. Those are just a few of the lessons we learn from Blue Rabbit's Climate Chaos.
The gorgeous adventure by Super Flash Bros is set on a group of small islands, which are presented with pretty looking, quasi-3D graphics. The main character is Blue Rabbit, who, like your average rabbit, equipped with a digital camera, sets out on a quest to help the natives of the various islands to solve their problems with the local weather.
Upon your arrival on the island, you are greeted by the island's hotel's owner, who advises you to check in. You can take that advice, or you can talk to the locals first, to get a feel for the game. Some people will only appear after you have checked in, so don't forget to do that. From there, it's up to you to follow the enjoyable storyline. Don't miss this gem!
Analysis: A brief tutorial at the beginning introduces you to the intuitive controls as well as to the nicely done symbolic language that is used throughout the game. With just 3 icons, Dancing Seal tells you that he loves the sea. The system is vaguely reminiscent of Tork, though it aims to make communication easy as opposed to making it part of the riddles.
Music by Dustball and voice acting by Egoraptor both fit in very well with the general ambiance of the game.
If critique can be applied to this game, it would have to be on a very high level. The whole piece has a very professional feel to it, leaving no improvements to be desired. I only got stumped once, very briefly, in the tutorial, when I had already talked to Dancing Seal, and the speech bubble still asked me to do it. I hadn't seen the green arrow which would let me advance the tutorial manually instead of automatically. I have also encountered a small bug, which made the hotel disappear after I ran around it. I was unable to make it reappear, nor could I replicate the circumstances after reloading, so maybe it was a one-time problem. However, should you run into this issue as well, you can still enter the hotel, if you walk up just right of the hotel's sign.
But those are really the only things I could find. Everything else is close to perfection, sound, music, graphics, story, character design (Dancing Seal wins the Cuteness Award!).
Walkthrough Guide
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Climate Chaos Walkthrough
Snow disk:
Go to the hotel so you have an umbrella. You will need this to get away from Native Island.
Talk to the tour guide.
Click the tick.
Keep walking up Spring Island for a cutscene.
Go down the hole and through the underground passage to reach Shrine Island.
Go up to the shrine further along and go near the snow disk. There will be a cutscene and you will arrive on Native Island.
Once the chief has talked, exit the hut.
Further down, a native is standing in front of his/her house. Talk to him/her and give him/her the umbrella.
Enter the house and get the tribal headdress from one of the shelves.
Go back up and talk to the native guarding the rowboat.
Show him the tribal headdress and click the tick.
Get on the rowboat and put the disk in the shrine on Shrine Island.
Sun disk:
Go to Native Island.
Somewhere there will be a native who offers you a scale (you must talk to the natives to see which one. She is standing in front of some colourful scales which look like rocks).
Choose the light green one and go to Spring Island.
Check the treasure chest and use the scale.
Take the watch down to rooms 1-8 in the hotel on Hotel Island.
A fancy bear will ask for the scale. Give it to him.
He will give you the sun disk, put it in the shrine.
Rain disk:
Go to Shrine Island.
Somewhere around the shrine on the left side, there is a huge sea shell. You have to have previously used the snow disk for this to work. Take a photo of it and show the photo to the contest manager on Hotel Island.
The hotel manager should congratulate you.
Take a photo of the hotel manager and show the photo to the cheif on Native Island.
He will give you the rain disk, put it in the shrine.
Thunder disk:
Go into the hotel on Hotel Island.
You have to have done the sea shell contest to get this disk. It is mentioned in Rain disk section. Use the gift coupon to buy a map. The map shows a spot on Spring Island.
Someone on Hotel Island will have a bucket and spade.
Talk to this person to get them and head off to Spring Island.
Find the spot and click the bucket and spade in your inventory.
Keep trying if it is not the right spot, you'l know when it is because you'll have the thunder disk.
Put it in the shrine.
Posted by: deedee | January 19, 2007 4:48 AM
Here is my complete, Climate Chaos walkthrough:
Walk into the hotel. Watch short clip thing and get umbrella(purplish thing).
Walk to the northeast part of the island and click on the tour guide. Press the check mark to go across to Spring Island.
Go towards the big water pit in the center of the island. Short clip. Walk into the empty pit behind you and keep walking.
Go straight, to the leaf with the stone disk on it. You will fall and wake up in the chief's hut.
Now go to the most southeast hut. Talk to the Native Man and give him your umbrella. Click the check mark. He will disappear, so you can go inside his hut. Get the headdress, hidden behind the triangular shaped rocks.
Go out. Go to the right of the hut and talk to the Native Women. Pick the green scale.
Walk to the left of chief's hut(the big fancy one)and talk to the Native Guard in front of the boat. Click on headdress. Click the check mark. He will let you use the boat. Walk to the boat and click on it. You are now on Shrine Island.
Walk to the shrine(big stone monument thing)and click on the lower part of it. CLick your snow disk. It will stop snowing. Go to the left of the shrine and take a picture of the giant seashell. Keep it.
Go to the very south part of the island and into the black pit. Go to the right part of this island. Click on the treasure chest and open it with the scale. Get the watch.
Talk to tour guide at south part of island and go back to Hotel Island (the one you started on). Talk to Competition Host and show him the big seashell picture. He will give you a purple gift shop slip. The Hotel Manager comes out to congratulate you. Talk a picture of he while he is talking. Keep it.
Go to the hotel. Go to the right, and get a poster. The Gift Shop owner will ask if you have money. Click the purple slip and the check mark. Take the poster. Exit shop.
Go to the left side of the hotel and give the man the watch. Say it is for him and he will give you a stone disk. Exit hotel.
Go southeast of the hotel and talk to dancing seal. He will ask if you want their bucket and shovel. Say yes. Now, northeast, and onward! Talk to the tour guide and go across to Spring Island!
Walk around the southwestern part of the island while clicking the shovel/bucket. When there's a hole in the ground, you got it. You now have a lightning
stone disk. Go to black pit.
Put both disks on shrine. Go right and go across to Native Island(using rowboat). Enter Chief's hut and show him the Hotel Manager picture. This is his son. He gives you the last stone disk. Go back to Shrine Island.
Put the last disk in the shrine, and ta da! you have won the game! Final clip after and credits.
So, I hope you like my walkthrough!
Posted by: Maggie | February 10, 2008 6:53 PM