ReviewGame review: The Wardrobe – plenty for old-school adventurers
Despite its impressive cartoony visuals, younger gamers will find this 2D point-and-click’s sarcastic humour and tongue-in-cheek narrative just a bit too weird, too often
The Wardrobe
C.I.N.I.C. Games
3.5/5 stars
For thirtysomething PC gamers, their early years were probably spent playing point-and-click adventures such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and King’s Quest.
Each was defined by a particular sensibility, but all shared a few characteristics: tongue-in-cheek stories, sarcastic humour, brain-teasing puzzles and beautifully chaotic 2D visuals. The Wardrobe (available for PC and Mac) is a love letter to that era, a game pays homage to the height of point-and-clicks. Almost too much, at times.
Originally released by an Italian development team last month, the game has only just received its English translation. Players take on a teenaged skeleton named Skinny, a Grim Fandango-like bag of bones. Now you’re doomed to search a small town for your best friend Ronald, in order to save your long-departed soul.