The Francy Droo & Friends Collection Reviews

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This game is so much fun!! It's a choose your own adventure, point and click with suprise twists. Very well thought out and written. Especially if you are a Nancy Drew fan although you definitely don't have to be a fan to enjoy it. Arlgefumph knows Nancy drew very well. He illustrated and wrote the dialogue, which in life he is very sarcastic. XD It's a great game, I highly recommend it!! My husband and I loved it. You can play it for days, takes bit to beat 100% but not impossible if you're up for the challenge ;) Can't wait for the next game!

I played [i]My Nigerian Prince[/i] and the first [i]Francy Droo[/i] game when they came out a few years ago and thought they were pretty funny, so I was looking forward to this collection and was not disappointed. The MS Paint-style artwork takes some getting used to, but at least it's a more interesting and distinctive visual style than generic anime art would be, and it fits well with the odd, quirky nature of the stories. Oh, a Rock!'s humor leans heavily on non sequiturs, and one of the defining characteristics of their games is endings that completely contradict each other. [i]TRAPPED! In a Soap Opera[/i] is a pretty straightforward example, with just one choice that leads to three different endings, and I wish it had been a bit more developed. On the other end of the spectrum, the Francy Droo games have meandering sections of investigation with random minigames and tons of choices that mostly don't actually matter, since the culprit just ends up being the person you pick to accuse, and that meaninglessness is a lot of what makes it so hilarious. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1227013735 The final game, [i]Who Am I? The Let's Play Disaster[/i], is a strange metafictional hybrid of visual novel and FMV. I don't know if I'd say I [i]liked[/i] it -- the bad let's player shtick went from humorously exaggerated to cringingly unbearable real quick -- but I'd certainly recommend it to anyone interested in unusual game design choices and the fusion of art games with visual novels. [i]Francy Droo and the Secret of the Shady Midnight Caller[/i] is the most substantial game in the collection, and took me about an hour to see all the endings, achievements, and different choices. The other games have closer to half an hour of playtime each. Bought it on sale and altogether I'd say it was definitely $5 well spent.