Now this is one awesome game! I never would have thought that a Kickstarter-backed indie game that combines classic point and click adventure with beat em' up and RPG elements like BROK the InvestiGator could have paid off so well! And it’s done in the style of an early 1990s’ western animated series, particularly cartoons from The Disney Afternoon! Fully voice-acted with more than 23,000 dialogue lines recorded. In all honesty, this is easily one of the best games I played in 2022! Right next to another classic beat em' up indie game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Think of that crossed over with Murder Mystery. Or Sam & Max and Ace Attorney crossing over with Final Fight and Streets of Rage 2.
When everyone else praised this game, they were 100% right to do so. Because the head at COWCAT Games has just about kept his word and fulfilled all his promises to make this game an experience that nobody will ever forget. This is NOT your typical detective adventure, because he has bring over tons of new things to the table. The animations are smooth and well produced, the art style fits very well with these kind of western-developed games. It’s almost as if, animators at Disney or Warner Bros. have done it, but it was done by an independent team!
The soundtrack is nicely well composed and by hearing by ear, some of the modules used for the digital instruments really shows that the team really gave it that 1990s’ nostalgia in spirit.
The storyline is also well written and it certainly helps when even a Disney Pioneer Jymn Magon was involved leading a hand with additional ideas. The characters are great and they all have his or her own personality and I can can relate to Brok myself...and even Graff too.
The gameplay --Oh my gosh. From start to finish, it was an exciting joyride. No matter what happened, I pulled through and wanted to know what happened next, depending on the choices I made. It's a game that mixes point and click with side-scrolling beat em' up action and it's a very cool mix, with some problems you need to use your head and some you need to use your fists! Sadly, I didn't get the canon ending. Although, I still teared up a bit inside after getting one of the possible endings, the first time. I spent about a total of 18-19 hours on my first playthrough. There's several different kinds of endings to get, giving this game a very high replay value. Just for that, will make players want to come back for more and to get all those achievements through several playthroughs and get all those endings to unlock a special surprise after. The adventure's not truly over until all endings have been achieved! There's also extras in the game with fanart being one of them. Most of my fanart actually made it in the final cut. And I even helped with getting this game more known to others and I am very happy that people are enjoying it.
Thank you so much COWCAT for this wonderful experience. Here's in hopes that one day, a sequel can be made.