Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent
| Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent | |||
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| Puzzle game adventure | |||
| Studio | Telltale Games | ||
| Publisher | Telltale Games | ||
| Senior Developer | Graham Annable | ||
| composer |
Jared Emerson-Johnson Rich Vreeland |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 June 30, 2010 January 26, 2011 |
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| platform | Windows , OS X , PlayStation Network , iOS | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| system advantages preconditions |
see system requirements | ||
| medium | Download , CD-ROM | ||
| language | English German | ||
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Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent is a puzzle game from the US software manufacturer Telltale Games . The aim of the game is to solve various puzzles and brain teasers related to erasers.
action
The plot revolves around an FBI agent named Nelson Tethers who heads the puzzle research division. His boss sends him to the town of Scoggins to find out what is wrong with the local eraser factory, since the Scoggins Eraser Company has been answering all inquiries with strange puzzles for some time. The player solves the case in around four hours, whereby the end does not bring any resolution, but leaves all questions unanswered. As Agent Tethers you are faced with puzzles in which, for example, the payload of smugglers' birds has to be calculated, or puzzles have to be put together. There are a total of 37 small tasks to be solved.
The game has a framework and was continued in a second part. During his first outing in the snow-covered small town of Scoggins, everything and the production of erasers revolves in a factory that supplies the White House and thus the President. This is now threatening to run out of erasers. Tethers follows clues to track down the missing factory foremen. The residents of Scoggins tell him about strange "hidden people" who are supposed to be up to mischief in the surrounding forests. After the riddle is solved, Agent Tethers returns to Scoggins in the second part. This time there are 30 puzzles to be solved.
Game principle and technology
Puzzle Agent is a 2D point-and-click adventure . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Tethers can find and examine objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The types of puzzles include labyrinths, logic puzzles and riddles, and there are also conspicuous tones from the forest whose origins need to be clarified.
Production notes
The game is based on both the drawing style and the look of a small animated film by Graham Annable that was distributed as Grickle on YouTube. The model for the game was the series on Professor Layton designed for the Nintendo DS .
System requirements
| operating system | Windows | Mac OS |
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| OS | Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 | min. Mac OS X 10.5 |
| processor | 2.0 GHz / 3 GHz Pentium 4 | Intel Core 2 Duo |
| Memory / storage | 512 MB / 1 GB | |
| Graphics / sound | 64 MB min. DirectX 8.1 | not recommended for: Macs with integrated graphics |
| Supported platforms Steam , PC , Mac , iOS , PS3 / PSN | ||
reception
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Puzzle Agent received positive to mixed reviews. From 24 aggregated ratings, the game on Metacritic scores 70.
Web links
- Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent on telltalegames.com
- Puzzle Agent UST on music.disasterpeace.com
- Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Puzzle Agent. games-guide.de, January 11, 2011, accessed on February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Adventure News: Puzzle Agent. adventures-kompakt.de, accessed on February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ XBobo: January: TOP PC Games - 1st Puzzle Agent. wordpress.com, February 1, 2012, accessed February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Puzzle Agent on Steam. store.steampowered.com, accessed February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ grickle. youtube.com, accessed February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian Schmidt: Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent Test (PC) - Studying is about erasing. GameStar.de, July 19, 2010, accessed on February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Puzzle Agent. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .