Being a little kid is hard. The adults control the television remote, you don't get to pick your bedtimes, your parents think they're being clever when they force you to wear cute shirts proclaiming how kooky they are... and, of course, nobody lets you take part in the really cool pillaging and slaying because they think you're too small. Viking Quest is a point-and-click puzzle adventure created by Denis Mordvintsev and Konstantin Timofeev about a little Viking girl who just wants to prove she's every bit as capable as her father. Easier said than done when he won't let her come along. Geez, did you ever hear of Take Your Daughter Maraudying day buddy? I bet Erik, Baleog and Olaf never had to put up with this.
Just click around the environment and try to find a way to help her get closer to her goal. The cursor will change to a grabbing hand when you can interact, you can drag items from your inventory to a place onscreen to use them, and moving the cursor to the left or right edges of the screen will give you a green arrow if you can move to a new area. (Man, do these ancient Vikings have some sophisticated integrated UI tools or what? I just have to rely on my stupid old eyes.)
The artwork by Tani Zelensova is both adorable and beautiful, with imaginative, friendly character designs. But while it's the sort of game you can happily enjoy for its great presentation and charm, some minor annoyances keep it from being a home run. Having to wait for the little victory/failure animations to play out can get frustrating, especially when you're using items everywhere to find out what to do next... which can be fairly frequently since the lack of item descriptions in your inventory can both make it hard to identify them and lead to some obscure uses. But hey; are you going to let something like that stand in the way of capturing a beast and eternal glory? Viking Quest is cute, family-friendly fun for everyone, even if you don't have a magnificent beard to call your own.
Walkthrough Guide
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What you need to know:
As per review, you have to wait for an animation to end before you can get anything else to work. If you try an item with a hot spot before the previous animation has finished, you won't get any reaction.
All item combining happens automagically
What you are trying to do:
Capture a dragon!
To do this you need to get the boat ready which needs the following:
A sail.
From sleeping sailor screen.
A rudder.
Outside of cave.
Some food to attract the dragon.
Basket on boat. Fruit outside of cave.
A net to catch the dragon in.
Get well handle from Genie. Use on well. Collect fruit if you haven't already and enter cave. Give pipe + leaves??? next to sleeping sailor to blacksmith.
Something to fix the dodgy plank on the boat.
Barrel of tar from blacksmith.
A compass.
Get beer by playing the barrel subgame. Just make all the pipes connect. Give to blacksmith.
A bow
Give rope from boat + branch from Genie to beer barrel bloke.
and arrows
Play the Genie subgame and win a jewel. Give jewel to sleeping sailor to gain coins. Give coins to beer barrel bloke.
Once you have all of that it is time to sail.
Use bow and arrows on sleeping sailor.
Use sails on mast.
Use barrel on plank.
Use compass on round piece of wood.
Use rudder on back of boat to left.
Click on up arrow next to mast to sail.
Capture the dragon.
Use berries on middle bottom of screen.
Use net on dragon.
Finish
Click on leaves middle of screen.
Solve number square. You need to get numbers in order.
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15
Posted by: MdB
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February 22, 2012 10:19 AM