Fritzi fish
| Fritzi Fisch / Freddi Fisch | |
|---|---|
| developer |
Humongous Entertainment Atari SA Nimbus Games |
| Publisher |
Humongous Entertainment Infogrames Ubisoft |
| First title | Fritzi Fisch and the Missing Treasure (1994) |
| Last title | Freddi Fisch and the Mystery of Coral Bay (2001) |
| Platform (s) | Android , iOS , Linux , Mac OS , OS X , Wii , Windows |
| Genre (s) | Educational game |
Fritzi Fisch or Freddi Fisch (name from game no. 4) (originally Freddi Fish ) is a five-part computer game series by Ron Gilbert for 3- to 8-year-olds, named after the main character, and developed by Humongous Entertainment .
Game concept
In each game, the two main characters, Fritzi and Lukas, have to achieve a specific goal, such as finding treasure, catching a ghost or something similar. To do this, they first have to complete several side tasks, usually with the help of an item that can be found somewhere. But often a task has to be done to get the item. There are several versions of every adventure, so that you will not have discovered everything after playing through it once.
What is striking are the many clickable backgrounds, figures and objects that trigger various animations, such as short cameos of various sea creatures, longer dialogues between the two main characters and the secondary characters, mini-games, musical interludes and smaller sketches with frequently pop-cultural references, which were made when Fritzi and Lukas can be viewed in the theater or cinema. In total there are well over a thousand such "extras".
Games
Fritzi Fisch and the Missing Treasure (1994)
In this game Fritzi and Lukas have to find the seaweed seed treasure from Grandma Flounder . The sharks who stole it have hidden bottles with clues everywhere with notes stating the location of the next bottle. The last bottle contains the location of the treasure. Until this is found, Fritzi and Lukas have to help many others to get useful items.
Fritzi Fisch and the Fins Ghost (1996)
A ghost haunts the school. In fact, these are the two sharks from Part 1 who want to steal their toys from the children. Fritzi and Lukas plan to build a ghost-catching machine for which they need many different items that are not easy to get.
The second game clearly builds on the first part. Many characters ( Rudi , Adelbert Aal and others) and items such as the Superduperschlickschockbox have been taken over from Part 1. But there are also new elements, such as a mini-game, of which there is one in every part from then on. In addition, the game is much more extensive.
Fritzi Fisch and the Fall of the Stolen Trumpet Snail (1998)
Fritzi Fisch and Lukas are invited by Lukas Uncle Benni to the founders' day party. When they get there, a nasty surprise awaits them: Uncle Benni is imprisoned on suspicion of stealing the large trumpet snail. However, he denies this and gives Fritzi and Lukas a list of all those present at the crime scene. The task now is to find the 3 golden pipes contained in the trumpet snail, so that Wuffi the dog can track the thief. Finally, the thief also loses a bag of evidence. Shortly before the end of the game, Fritzi and Lukas stop the angry crowd from continuing to blame Uncle Benni. The task now is to select the right perpetrator from the 7 suspects using the material found in the bag.
Freddi Fisch and the Secret of the Saltwater Gorge (1999)
The pigs fish from cousin Calico were on their ranch stolen. Freddi and Lukas can find the thieves' hiding place quickly, but first they have to be dressed like fish thieves so that they can enter: hat, collar and buckle.
At the end of the game you have to find the big boss , the leader of the pigfish thieves. This could be almost anyone and the resolution is different every time. At the end there is always a subtle allusion to it that makes it easier for the player.
Many elements from the Wild West can be found: There is a sheriff, a blacksmith, a typical Wild West bar and more.
From this game onwards, the recordings are made in another dubbing studio. That explains the name change and the new voices for all characters.
Freddi Fisch and the Mystery of Coral Bay (2002)
Freddi Fisch and Lukas want to inaugurate the new amusement park in Coral Bay. But the park cannot be opened while a mysterious sea monster is up there. Freddi Fisch and Lukas set out to find this creature and have to help others along the way to get to their destination.
ScummVM
The first four games in the series, as well as the mini-games Freddi Fish and Luther's Maze Madness and Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries are supported by ScummVM and thus also run on many other platforms.
Characters
Fritzi fish
Fritzi Fisch or Freddi Fisch (originally Freddi Fish ), dubbed by Michaela Degen or Sylvia Nagler (originally from Annette Toutonghi ), is a yellow goldfish lady and the main character of the series. Fritzi basically does everything right and is practically the opposite of Lukas. It should therefore serve as a role model for the player.
She has a grandma, Grandma Flounder , and a cousin, Cousin Calico .
Luke
Lukas (originally Luther ), dubbed by Michaela Amler and Angela Quast (originally by Mike McAuliffe ), is a little green fish and Fritzi's best friend. Lukas is the typical antihero who always gets everything wrong (e.g. he fails to swim a loop because a branch is in the way). Often he also claims to have done everything on his own, although the “right” deeds are always done by Fritzi. In addition, when he finds a valuable object, he often utters the sentence “I am rich”, whereupon Fritzi has to remind him that the object does not belong to him.
He has an uncle named Benny and a cousin named Konstantin . Lukas' favorite toy is the super herring man .
More characters
Max or Sam , dubbed by Claus Brockmeyer , is a pelican who appears in several adventures. He is a good friend of Fritzi's and helps her in the first part to pick flowers, which she distributes to the others. In the third part, in which he is now called Sam like in the original, he transports Fritzi and Lukas to the founders' day as a pilot for Sam Airlines .
Rudi (in the original Ray) , the manta ray , dubbed by Claus Brockmeyer , is a retail salesman who appears in the first two parts. His best-known product is the super dupey knickknack thing that Fritzi gives him in the first part so that she can get a pearl . In the second part he sings in one version that he exchanged it for a bottle of oil with a sardine , in another version he exchanges it for a trophy that Fritzi won.
Dieter-Thomas Hai (originally Gill Barker ), a great white shark , takes on Rudi's role as a salesman in the following parts. In the third part he runs a fair, in the fourth part a seller of wheel nuts and chewing gum and in the fifth part his twin sister sells glue. Fritzi and Lukas give him purple sea urchins as a means of payment , which the player must collect beforehand. His name in the German version is an allusion to Dieter Thomas Heck .
Adelbert Aal (originally Eddie the Eel ), dubbed by Andreas Lier , is a voracious eel that appears in the first two parts. After he has been provided with plenty of food, he is always peaceful and withdraws, since he usually blocks Fritzi and Lukas the way.
The sharks are trying to steal something in the first two parts Fritzi and Luke or have already done, and the two must now try to get it back. The nasty and authoritarian Oberhai , dubbed by Walter von Hauff , frequently on the very shot time itself must Unterhai , dubbed by Reinhard Brock , upset because he has done something wrong. But actually both serve the same thing , of whom they are both equally afraid, Don Krakone , dubbed by Claus Brockmeyer , an octopus who always asks the sharks to get something for them. Krakone always mumbles incomprehensible things, which the sharks still seem to understand, and he has a white catfish that he constantly strokes, which alludes to the white angora cat of the James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld .
Web links
- Fritzi Fisch at MobyGames (English)