Tux and Fanny Bewertungen

Beautiful Game

Before being adapted into this video game, Tux and Fanny begins its life as a series of short animation videos on Youtube. The series intentionally evokes the feeling of an old Soviet cartoon, but in a modern setting with laptops and handheld game consoles. Objects have Cryllic texts on it, all the characters speak a Slavic language (I think it is Russian) that is subtitled in English and talk in monotones. The animation is crude and pixelated. The protagonists, a pink featureless man named Tux and a purple featureless woman named Fanny, live together in a house and have wacky adventures like watching ducks dance, playing primitive video games and floating down a river sitting on car tyres. The POV frequently switches to animals that live around Tux and Fanny. Just to give everyone what the series looks like: in the first episodes, Tux and Fanny starts playing football (soccer for you Americans), brings a stray cat (Sasha) back into the house. It immediately releases fleas, giving the duo many flea bites. They then pour peanut butter over their heads to make themselves less itchy. Then Tux goes on a philosophical lecture out of nowhere about the inevitability of the ending of their adventures when looking at a dandelion (Fanny looks weirded out). Then he cleans himself by feeding himself to thousands of ants, still covered in peanut butter. He becomes a skeleton, got a hen roosted in his ribcage, becomes annoyed at his inability to press the piano keys as a skeleton, and got a new pink suit from Fanny that has a hole at the chest so that Tux can periodically fetch the hen eggs from it. And he lives his life as a skeleton in a pink suit FOR THE REST OF THE SERIES, as if the devouring of his flesh by the ants had never happened. The video game works as a prequel of the video series as the main quest is for the duo to inflate a football so they can play it. Beside the duo, you also play as a cat (the one from the video series) which the duo observes its traces it left behind at night, and a flea (presumably one of the fleas that the cat releases later). Unlike in the video series where people talk real Russian, here the duo talks in gibberish Russian with English subtitles. You can collect vinyl records to listen to, collect video games on floppy discs to play, collect costumes, watch different kinds of birds, observe insects, appreciate wild flowers, paint paintings, take pictures of wildlife and so much more. It also has multiple references to the plot of the video series. I think the game captures the wacky spirit of the series perfectly. For example, there are about two dozen minigames within the game that you can play, including a text adventure, a zelda-like, a cycling simulator, and so much more. And there are only two of them that are too difficult. And they can be completed with in-game cheats found inside an in-game 100% guide that details almost everything you need to do to achieve 100% completion. This is a great game to buy if you are into old school point and click adventures but hate nonsensical puzzles, or just like some good humour in general, or play something relaxing. The game has neither third party DRM nor steam DRM, which is definitely a plus for me. It means I can still play the game even if Steam is gone, if I have a local copy of the game backed up.