The Revenge of Johnny Bonasera: Episode 4 Reviews

loved it!! very funny

This was a great quadrilogy point and click adventure game, i played all 4 episodes (offline), this 4th one is probably the best one tho i enjoyed them all. I enjoyed the puzzles of this 4th one, i did not have to find a guide for when i got stuck, and stuck i did indeed become on a few problems which were not easy. I felt a nice sense of achievement at the end of the game. The humour is funny and well written tho can be very crass in a south park way which gave a few chuckles. I think there wont be any regrets paying for the whole bundle discount. Episode 1 is pretty short sure, but was rather tricky to figure out which made it long + is a good introduction on what to expect. the 2nd,3rd and 4th one really improved from the 1st, I` would love to see a sequel . The kid character is an unremorseful brat which made this game very funny.

I didn't think I'd ever be writing a positive review for a game with fart jokes and dismemberment jokes, but here I am. I didn't like Ep 1, but the episodes were steadily getting better, and Ep 4 is definitely good. It scratches all the adventuring itches in just the right places. Nice teamwork puzzles. Getting crucial information from an overheard conversation. Good dialog puzzles (one in particular). A red herring. A flashback. Playable characters crossing paths. A light-bulb moment where you suddenly realize the purpose of some seemingly irrelevant object. Funny object descriptions and comments. The right amount of silliness. It's lengthier than the previous episodes (3 hours versus around 2 hours for the previous ones). The puzzles are quite simple, but they're not trivial fetch quests. There are no minigames or logic puzzles. The graphics and animations are also simple but nice and clean. A separate thank you for being that rare adventure game which doesn't let the mouse pointer run off to the second monitor. The writing is pretty decent and wraps up the story nicely (but, according to the closing message, Johnny might return in a new episode). The flashback sequence has a few translation issues though.

Episode 4 is longer than the episodes before it and takes around three to four hours to play through. It experiments with a new character switching mechanic without having to swap inventory items between them, thankfully. Puzzles are logical, just don't forget to check other characters, including the radio, for new lines of dialogue when nothing else seems to work.

[i]This review is part of my mini-project to review all four of the Johnny games. The Revenge of Johnny Bonasera is a 4-part episodic series by independent developer Rafael García. The series began in late 2016 and concluded in early 2020. The developer has floated the possibility of doing a fifth game at some point in the future, but the series is currently finished; The four games that are out tell a complete story with no loose ends. Each game in the series takes about two to three hours to complete, and each successive game is a bit larger and more ambitious than the previous entries. The series follows a physically weak but terribly ruthless young boy. In the first game, which works as a standalone title, Johnny takes revenge on some teenaged punks who ruin his sandwich. The second, third, and forth games change course a little bit and follow a whole story arc as Johnny takes revenge on some aliens who have abducted his mother. My overall impression of the series as a whole is positive. Johnny is not as big or as flashy as many other games; but it doesn't feel like it is even trying to compete with those. I am writing these reviews on Jan 2, 2020, the day after Adobe Flash officially died. Johnny feels like exactly the kind of game that would have existed and thrived as a mega-hit on a site like Newgrounds or Kongregate had it come out 15 years earlier. With the basic cartoonish art style, large and crudely animated sprites, vaguely adolescent humor, and simplicity of design, the series brings me a certain nostalgia for that era of gaming.[/i] This is the final (for now) entry in the Johnny series, and is the best one. In this final game, we finally get the payoff we have been building up to, where Johnny reaches the alien ship and takes it down. This is the longest and most complex of the four Johnny games. In this game, there are a staggering seven playable characters, a series first. We also get a new switching mechanic, where we can toggle control between multiple characters to solve a single puzzle. While we play as Johnny for most of the game, we also play as a superhero also on board the spaceship, three captives of the aliens who are trying to get free, and there is a long flashback sequence in which we play as two government agents on one of their earlier cases. I recommend playing the other three Johnny games before playing this one, but I think the payoff is worth it. Here's hoping for a Johnny 5!