Fenimore Fillmore - The Westerner
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| Studio | Revistronic | ||
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 Planeta DeAgostini Focus Home Crimson Cow The Adventure Company  
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| Senior Developer | Hernán Castillo Brian | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
2003 (Spain) 2004 (Germany) |
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| platform | Android , iOS , Windows | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| medium | CD-ROM , download | ||
| language | 9 languages (including German) | ||
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The Westerner is a computer game released in 2003 by the Spanish development studio Revistronic . The 3D - Point-and-Click-Adventure is the continuation of the game 3 Skulls of the Toltecs , which was published eight years earlier . Both games are set in the Wild West and make fun of common clichés about cowboys , Indians and heroism in a satirical way .
action
Fenimore ends up in the area around Starek City, in which the unscrupulous and ruthless cattle baron John Starek rules the city and lands like a tyrant. Fillmore finds himself in a situation in which Starek's henchmen threaten the farmer Joe Banister and his family and want to burn down their farm. Fillmore can chase the bandits away and win the favor of the banisters he takes on. Banister brings Fenimore together with Alvin Jones, a farmer who has also been battered by Starek, and together the trio decide to shut down Starek and his gang. For this, Fenimore has to do three things:
- Free a farmer friend (Willy the trickster) from prison
- fortify the Jones farm with defenses and
- prevent a group of cowboys from coming to Starek City by train as reinforcements.
In the course of his endeavors, Fenimore meets the attractive, local teacher Rhiannon Starek, with whom he immediately falls in love. But here, too, John Starek gets in the way, because Rhiannon is his niece and he wants to couple her with Floyd Random, the underexposed and hard-drinking offspring of a wealthy landowner clan. Until the happy ending, Fenimore has two more tasks to do: First, to free Rhiannon from Starek's and Random's violence, and second, to investigate the murderer of her father, who died years ago.
Game principle and technology
The game is not a pure comic adventure, but looks like one due to the three-dimensional scenery. The screen is divided into three parts; The game is shown in the middle of the screen, and there is a black bar at the top and bottom of the screen. The inventory is shown in the upper bar. The objects are shown as pictograms, their respective number is indicated by subscript Arabic numbers. In the upper left corner there is also an emblem based on a sheriff's star, via which the main menu can be reached with a mouse click. The possible or selected activities are shown as words in the lower black bar. To use an item from the inventory, click on it with the left mouse button and move it over the item to be used or the person in the game screen or another item in the inventory and click again.
A conventional crosshair acts as the cursor, which turns into a magnifying glass (to look at it) when you move over usable objects or people. In the viewer mode, an enlargement of the viewed object is shown. Clicking the right mouse button transforms the magnifying glass into a speech bubble (when clicking on people to talk to them) or a stylized hand (when clicking on objects to pick up or use them).
There are several locations in the game, between which Fillmore moves either on his horse or on a draisine . In order for his horse to move, it must be fed with carrots , which Fillmore has to plant and harvest in the course of the game or can also buy.
Sometimes there are also action sequences in which the hero has to use a gun. He fires these either by pressing the left mouse button (if he cannot move) or the right mouse button (if he can move and controls changes of location with the left mouse button).
The playing time is a good 20 hours.
Production notes
You can't die in the game, but there are some sequences with games of skill that you absolutely have to manage to progress. Coping with these sequences is not that easy and sometimes requires patience and speed. In the game you have to defeat a henchman Stareks in a drinking and insulting duel , for which you have to collect the necessary phrases from other cowboys. This is a variation of the insult fencing known from the Monkey Island series . During the game you have the opportunity to collect money in different places. This is absolutely necessary in order to purchase the necessary utensils from the local grocer. Actor Manfred Lehmann , who also works as a voice actor in films and series (e.g. for Bruce Willis ), acts as the spokesman for the muscular farmer Joe Banister .
In the United States, the game was released under the name Wanted: A Wild Western Adventure . A follow-up to The Westerner was released in March 2009 . It's called Fenimore Fillmore's Revenge . The original version of The Westerner was released in May 2016 as an HD version for mobile devices with the Android and iOS operating systems . In March 2017, the Casual Brothers studio released a version of the game adapted to modern PCs on the Steam and GOG distribution platforms .
German voices
- Fenimore Fillmore: Jens Wendland
- Rhiannon Starek: Christin Marquitan
- John Starek: Rolf Jülich
- Joe Banister: Manfred Lehmann
- Alvin Jones: Achim Schülke
- Alma Jones: Isabella Grothe
reception
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The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff highlighted an innovative help mode: In the game, tips for solving puzzles can be purchased in the store. The magazine praised the humor, puzzle design, voice acting and graphics; The Westerner is (after Uru - Ages Beyond Myst ) "currently the second most beautiful 3D adventure on the market". The “perhaps too simplistic” story and the growing of carrots to obtain a “currency” for traveling between places were criticized. The control was described as successful in principle, but overly precise.
Web links
- The Westerner at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Adventure-Treff.de: The Westerner. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .