Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (Complete Season) Reviews

So, the first episode being free is a notable marketing tool to give you a small taste of what this game is all about. If you don't know this game, I advise you to look for it and start with that one. I started playing episode 1 and as soon as I finished it, I decided to get the complete Season. This is a point and click puzzle game with a silly story, where you need to avoid a catastrophe, but Odysseus (the main character) is really reluctant to do anything. I found it to be a very entertaining game and got addicted in playing it until the very end. The art is really well done and it's a very likeable type. It's like a fusion of cartoonish pixel art and imitationalism, which they made it work really well together in here. I love the fact that when the main character talks, you hear just a mumble and when the robot talks it is a simple digital sound. You read what they say and it feels like you're actually listening to their words. It reminds me the Charlie Brown's teacher when she speaks which is a great throwback to a childhood memory. The game is slow-paced which can make you impatient and irritated to no end, but I think it is purposely made according to the character's personality. He is kind of a slow, lazy worker that manages to do things all by himself (with a little help from the robot) even though he doesn't want to. The exchanges between the characters are hilarious and gives you a really enjoyable time. The story is foolish, the characters are foolish and even the tasks can be foolish, so be prepared for that. All the foolishness became a great combination that makes you get really into the story and the game. Just don't take this game too serious and believe me: you'll have fun!

Well, I have to say it is a rare delight when I come across a game that actually draws me in with intrigue. Let me just say that this game, I feel, heralds back to the early point and click adventure games I first played when I was young ("Hero's Quest", "Maniac mansion", and "Zak McKracken and the Alien mindbenders" to name them). So far I enjoy the story and all the little mysteries. I don't have much else to say except the pilot and episode 1 are currently free and what do you have to lose is giving it a try.

An interesting game, with funny dialogues and a cool story. A separate plus graphics. The game drags on. One thing is a pity: the musical accompaniment is too weak

I really want to recommend it, but I just can't. The graphics and animation are great, the sound is good - and the main theme is awesome. It's just.... the actual adventuring part of this adventure game doesn't work very well. The puzzles are pretty arbitrary in places, with no real explanation or logic of what you're supposed to be doing which just leads to trying every combination of stuff to try to get through it. There are places where it feels you have to use the 'show hotspots' function to get any further, which is at least better than playing hunt-the-pixel, but there are times where you use the in-game hint system for a bit of direction that seems a bit random from where you've been already. The general story is interesting enough but, again, I'm just not all that keen on the actual implementation. The final episode was a bit of an anticlimax after spending so much time beating my head against a wall trying to move forwards through the earlier episodes.

I played a lot of point and click adventure, but this one is just... My honest [b]+[/b]/[b]-[/b]: [spoiler][b]-[/b] Too much hassling around as that some things have to be done in a specific order, one click wrong and [b]have[/b] to do it again. [b]-[/b] Selectable areas will change, making confusion. Also I could only see them when I clicked on the character, spacebar did not do anything. [b]-[/b] The story itself. I finest it and hoped that this was more, I do not hate it, just hoped that it was more.[/spoiler]

[h1]An extremely slow burn, but I loved it[/h1] Odysseus Kosmos is a massive, 6-part sci-fi epic. Released episodically, the game's story follows a lonely ship's engineer who has stayed behind on a starship while the rest of the crew has temporarily left, on some type of mission. However, the ship is orbiting a black hole, which is doing some awfully weird stuff to the flow of time in the star system. I was expecting this game to be a comedy ("comedy" and "funny") are currently store tags for the game, but it isn't really a comedy. It has jokes, and some lighter moments, but the game does a wonderful job of building this atmosphere of strange lonliness over a very long playtime. Odysseus Kosmos starts very slowly. Odysseus is all alone on this large, empty, dark ship - it's kind of falling apart, and his only companions are a snarky maintenance droid, and a few lab rats. The entire prologue and the first two chapters don't even have much of a plot to speak of - they mostly consist of of exploring the uneasy relationship between Odysseus and Barton as they fix mechanical problems around the ship. However, you start to see little breadcrumbs of weirdness start to sprinkle in - Odysseus starts flashing back to childhood, and begins seeing fleeting hallucinations of a mysterious young woman in a halter top and miniskirt, and starts to notice that maybe Barton is hiding stuff. By episode 5, all of the slow-burn setup of the early chapters starts to have all sorts of unexpected payoffs. There's quite a lot of puzzles, as well, and the puzzle design is enjoyable. I was able to figure out most of the puzzles on my own. Some are admittedly a little obscure, but the game also does have a fully functional hint system to prevent you from getting too stuck. I am very glad I bought this game. I thought it was executed really well, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.

Remember when Pn'C games were made of nonsensical puzzles sugarcoated with sidesplitting adventures ? Odysseus Kosmos can refresh your memory on the former. And then some. The first mistake the game makes is narrative however: the protagonist is detestable. You play an idiotic yet self-important jerk (stuck in a spin-off of Interstellar) who constantly berates and bullies others. Meanwhile, his fellow traveller is a sniveler, not likable either. Second mistake is that the louse starts telling his life story on every click you make, joined in by his whining companion (who eavesdrops constantly.) Another Pn'C hit by the curse of verbiage. Third mistake is the lack of stimulus. There is no goal, no reason for personal involvement. Not until the halfway mark (chapter 3,) when a mystery occurs that might pique your curiosity. Too little too late. But the main issue is the gameplay. The tedium is off the charts. - Simple actions are split into minute actions, to be performed in precise order, leading to micromanagement and killing all sense of dynamism and storytelling. - Actions give no to minimal useful feedback (verbose but vain.) - Puzzles ramify into intermediate puzzles, in recursion. - Puzzles are plain chores, with no appeal, no incentive and no narrative payoff. - Puzzles don't make a lick of sense, so it's the dreaded try-everything-on-everything route. - Puzzles favor solutions that shouldn't work over solutions that should. - To make matters worse, you get a vast inventory to be combined with a vast number of hot spots. - To make matters worse, impossible actions become possible, or new hot spots appear anywhere, after arbitrary events; try everything on everything again, cyclically from scratch, maybe with new results. - To mmw, puzzles require incessant backtracking, at crawling speed of course. - To mmw, certain actions are on a timer. - To mmw, you'll be silently subjected to pixel hunting in a short time window after idling in a seemingly empty room. This one voraciously takes the biscuit. - And so on. I could really go on. The interface could be better, streamlined, rid of half the clicks it demands. No double-clicks. Options lacking. Save slots limited to 3, instead of 11, a better looking random number. The art is conceived with more flair. as it succeeds in bringing the vibe of ancient games, without the rot of pixel art (contours are barely jagged, colour is aplenty.) Similarly, the voicing is a clever low-budget take, a sort of pixel sound. The few lines of Garbledish people repeat do bring some life (although with a degree of annoyance.) Unusual that I don't finish a Pn'C, but this one is dispiriting.

Cons: * Puzzles make absolutely no sense. You'll reach a point where 'try everything on anything' is the only way forward * Heavily triggered. Items and actions will appear arbitrarily after some other arbitrary action has been performed, with no particular reason why it wasn't available before. Even if you clicked there a million times before (and this happens **a lot**) * Backtracking, always backtracking * Some puzzles are plain frustrating, random retries until you "get it right" * Characters are annoying, and not even 1-dimensional. More like dimensionless. They are there for a sole purpose of doing something specific in the plot, and have very little to say other than 2-3 plot related lines Pros: * The story is ok-ish which is somewhat of a saving grace. Don't buy it. Not even on sale. It had a lot of potential but ended up wasting it all with senseless puzzles and objects that just suddenly appear.

Great art, music and sounds are good, that's about it. Odysseus is annoying. I hate looking at walkthroughs and had to do so several times for this game. I hate puzzles where the solution is "randomly click until you find what you need". That's not a puzzle, it's busywork. And even if you understand the solution to a puzzle, the creators decided to make the process so drawn-out and ridiculous to the point the solution only makes sense to someone deranged ("Oh, you want to remove that cloth from that umbrella? Why not use...your hands? No! That's stupid! Use that foam sealant instead!"). I would never recommend this game to anyone.

Loved this game!!! This is an old school sci-fi comedy point and click that is very challenging. I loved the two main characters and their interactions. I played without the hint system (forgot it was an option!) and it took me over 20 hours to play the 6 episodes. I thought the story was engaging and though I kinda figured out what happened, I wanted to keep going as to the hows and whys, etc. The challenges are the traditional type - how do I fix this, solve this problem; and some standalone puzzles. All the info is out there to solve everything, just some answers are not easily seen right away. Exactly my kind of game! The only thing is that you have to get all 72 achievements to get the extended "true" ending. You get an ending without it, but by the time I finished the first time I went back with the help of some achievement guides to collect them all. That is saying something for me since I don't usually do that. But I wanted more Oddy! I would love to see more games by this developer. Excellent game. I enjoyed it a lot!!