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A Pirate's Tale!

by ShayAvr

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File size: 5 MB
Downloaded: 7,680 times
Graphics: 320x200, 16-bit color

Operating System(s):

Windows

Game Genre:

Historical

Game Type:

Comedy

Story Type:

Original

Release Date:

29 Sep 2008

AGS Panel Rating:

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Player Rating:

Play Length:

Medium Length Game

Short Game	Can be completed within 30 minutes
Medium Length Game	Takes at least 30 mins to finish
Full Length Game	As long as a Sierra / LucasArts classic
Non-Adventure Game	Using Adventure Game Studio for something else?!
Joke Game	You know when it fits this category ;)
Demo	Unfinished Games / Commercial Games
Training Game	Games made just to try out AGS
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Content Advisory:

Occasional, mild
Sex

None

Occasional, mild

Language(s):

English

Public Opinion

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13 people have rated this game so far:

Visual:

72%

Immersion:

75%

Puzzles & Pacing:

94%

Overall Enjoyment:

80%

About this game

You play Nathaniel Goodfellow, a deck boy onboard of an English merchant ship. One night the ship harbours at Nodha Island, at the Caribbean sea, for a stop. There Nathaniel learns of a great treasure hidden beneath a mysterious island belonged to a notorious undead pirate. Along with a fellow crewmate and a beautiful brave archaeologist, Nathaniel embarks on an adventure to find the mysterious island, get the plunder and become a great pirate. New version released: A Pirates Tale v1.2 Release info: Bugs fixed Improvements: - All typos fixed New Features: - All characters, hotspots and objects are shown in the status bar while mouse-over

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AGS Panel Review

"Some decent attempts at some Monkey Island-style humour (and a largish game world) are a plus, but enjoyment is hampered by somewhat rough graphics and interactions."

12 people commented on this game (newest first):

Just finished playing this game and I must say it is very good!

If you can get past the simplistic graphics and many English language issues with spelling and grammar you will find a charming and nostalgic adventure awaits!

The Monkey Island feel was well done without ripping anything much off from it. I really felt like I was playing an adventure game from around 1989 or so.

The puzzles ranged from good to really good with only one or two being a bit of the WTF?! variety. A few times I got stumped because of a game mechanic issue rather than an actual puzzle, but, like I said: 1989 adventure game...

Well worth a play!

2018-06-25 11:50:10 by Mandle

A game with simple and catchy graphics, nice humor and good puzzles.
I love the author drawings, thumbs up!

2009-04-04 20:48:22 by bicilotti

Andy:
Actualy there is one accordion playing monkey in this Monkey Island spin-off game... ;-)

2008-11-26 10:50:15 by arj0n (Arj0n)

I admire the effort that went into this game. A good, decent sized game that is worth checking out.

A bit of coding messed up around the fountain area at the start, and well sort of a Monkey Island spin-off (without any monkeys), hehe, good fun

2008-11-25 16:28:37 by Andy

A good game to play, even though it has it's minuses...

2008-11-16 16:37:35 by thepr

Excellent quality, with a good attention to detail. I really enjoyed it.

2008-10-30 19:13:59 by Tinkerer (tinkerer)

I really enjoyed this game, but I regret that it looks too much like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones FoA. And the graphics could have been better too. But the story is great !

2008-10-29 07:35:44 by Marion

And I forgot to mention that the author's taken a lot of trouble with the music too (I'll even forgive him the attempt at an Irish tune).

2008-10-06 15:05:43 by Zargblast

Forget the atrocious spelling (treat it like 'How to be Topp'), enjoy the mix of somewhat rudimentary and well-designed graphics, persist with pixel-hunting and become immersed in a thoroughly pleasurable game.

2008-10-06 15:02:32 by Zargblast

Simple graphical style but obviously a lot of work has gone in here. Much better then it may appear from Screenshots.

2008-10-06 09:31:05 by McBoy

There are 2 more comments that you can see >>>

Hear hear, Arjon.
This game deserves three stars at least!

2008-09-30 21:18:08 by speelteveel

Most of the remakes and look-alike fangames are in sierra style but not this time.

One of the few games that realy do it by giving back that oldschool-adventure-gaming feeling (for me at least ;-)). Prepair to go back in time... This time in MI1 flavour!

New MI1 styled graphics + nor completely but nicely done sound (mostly done in MI1 style) = Nice overall MI1 atmosphere.

Combined with:
Nice set of puzzles, (from rookie to medium / hard),
Funny animations,
Funny MI1 conversations.
(And a typo version of the languagefile, but that fades away during playing and get caught by that MI1 feeling)

A gem (even with the spelling prob), this time polished in MI style, don't miss it!

Thumbs up for ShayAvr!

2008-09-30 00:23:40 by Arj0n

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1 Cup	Not serious entertainment
2 Cups	A reasonable game, worth a try
3 Cups	A good game, worth playing
4 Cups	A great game, well worth your time
5 Cups	An outstanding, must-play game!

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