Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure Reviews

Concept | Rating Graphics | 7/10 Music | 10/10 Story | 8\10 I wanted to love this game. It starts out great. The storyline is pretty good, but the ending in itself is a little lacklustre. The characters have no depth and the end seemed super forced, and too easy. I feel like more could have been done with this game to make it better.

You will need a lot of patience with this game due to the ultra slow mechanics used. The animations of the characters walking will have you tearing your hair out in frustration because there is are many fetch this to solve that puzzles in it, It's is in reality a tiny adventure game more aimed at children than adults. It took over 1 hour to play but that was again mainly due to the slow mechanics. If the animations and speech interactions were at a faster pace then the whole thing could be completed in 30 minutes I think. The plot is predictable and fairly standard and the music track is annoying unless you have a penchant for Mexican trumpets which sadly I don't. When completed the ending is totally anti-climatic. There isn't even a well done screen, I cannot recommend it except to entertain children. It is not even a free game but was very cheap so for those reasons I give it 3 out of 10 as it will help while away a boring couple of hours if you are a patient player.

This game is SHORT, took me less than an hour to complete it. It's almost like the first chapter, but I guess for $1.24 I can't feel that bad about it. It only has one path for you to play, very easy puzzles, story is lacking, and felt like a demo. But the music is great, and the backgrounds are great. But I just can't recommend this game to anyone.

It's not a bad Adventure game to play even though it could of been better but I can tell the developer of the game was just learning and inspired by past popular adventure games. Hopefully, their next game will be better.

the game was incredably easy, but i would probly distance the items you need a little more, i always felt like the things i needed were just out in the open. in my opinion id try and make it just a little bit harder. and the code you need in the game that was a little too cryptic.

It's a cute concept, but it's very short and has low production value. Rather than performing animated actions (besides walking and one or two other things), the character will just state "okay, I did this thing" without moving. Every time you open your inventory, you can't just click on an item to use it--you first have to remember to click the "Use" or "Look At" icons on the right side of the inventory, THEN click on the item you wanted, or else the inventory will just close itself when you click on an item. There are many spelling/grammar mistakes in the captions, which gets distracting, and adds to the low production value. Again, cute concept, and the music was fun, but I think it needs a lot more work.

All in all, not a bad game. The day of the dead theme was nice. The graphics where nice, but could have been somwhat better, The story was good, but felt not very well thought out. One puzzle was pretty hard. The code, for instance, took me quite some time to figure out. Voices were good, but why so slow?? Good thing there was a skip button. The game might have been somewhat longer too. I do recommend this game, but not rellay much value for the 5 bucks.

Extremely short at half to one hour, and I'd as such recommend cutting the already low price of €1,99 in half, but do otherwise feel the current low review score to not accurately reflect this being otherwise fairly enjoyable. If you buy a small old-school point & click adventure by a first/one-off developer you sort of know what you are getting, and as far as I'm concerned it provides for precisely that. For a game this small nothing wrong with the voice acting either as some others are commenting. If you are an old-school point & click fan who enjoys short, easy, casual and firsts/one-offs, and if you grab this at currently 50% or less, I'd say you'd get your money's worth.

I buy and play almost EVERY P&C adventure game that comes out and have been a fan since the Lucas Arts days with games like Indiana JOnes and the Fate of Atlantis etc... So naturally I gave this a shot... I am sorry its just not good . The voice acting is bad, the characters sound like they were typed in and auto spoken with microsof sam...that plus the characters are boring the puzzles are typical and its not fun enough to get me beyond the early start without getting so bored I shut it off. I REALLY love adventure games...look at my library but this is no Monkey Island and pales to comapre to anything from Wadjet Eye or Daedlic... save your money for a better game.

To recommend or not to recommend... This short adventure was created by a single person and is their first release. As such, it's no Return to Zork. Yet it has a low price and the developer is active and has responded to feedback with updates and edits. So should yo buy the game? Yes, if you: * like classic adventure games * want a quick game that isn't too difficult * want to support a new developer who is making a genuine effort No, if you: * hate short games * expect perfection * don't like classic adventure interfaces The game can be completed in half an hour, and while there is nothing spectacular about the story, music, or artwork, it's still pretty impressive for just one guy. I've seen worse games from full studios. This llama approves.