So blonde

The seventeen-year-old sunny blonde has a Paris-Hilton decal effect on her surroundings: she is blonde and naive, lives off the wealth of her wealthy parents and is only focused on commerce, parties and dolce vita. When she has to accompany her parents on a cruise to the Bermuda Islands against her will , she goes overboard during a storm. She drifts across the sea in a lifeboat before stranding on the coast of a tropical island in the morning hours .

Sunny only wants one thing: to reach her parents, find a hotel and escape from the island as quickly as possible. The nameless island seems to have stopped in the 17th century , at the height of the pirate era . She cannot expect help from the inhabitants, who seem strange to her, since the island is under the regime of the one-eyed privateer One-Eye and his gigantic bodyguard Diablo, who all cuddle in front of them. At first she only receives help from two individuals: Once from the dreamy mayor Juan, who prefers to write poetry than to rule, and then from Max, an animal, very similar to a little bear who - as it turns out in the course of the plot - obviously only see Sunny can.

Sunny quickly finds out that she has to give up her materialistic manner if she somehow wants to leave the island again. To do this, it not only has to end one-eyes rule, but also win the trust of the residents. Sunny therefore gets to work, which in the course of the plot includes holding a wedding, freeing a prisoner and healing the mysterious island spirit Atabey, who is weakened by One-Eyes regime.

In the game there is the possibility of collecting a total of four bonus items with which different numbers of end sequences can be unlocked.

Game principle and technology

So Blonde is a so-called 2.5D adventure. For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures act before hand-drawn 2D 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. Sunny can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked; Outside of closed rooms, the character can quickly go to places they have already visited using a map. At the bottom of the screen the inventory is listed, in which all objects carried are listed. These can also be combined with one another. All possibilities for interaction with objects or people shown on a game screen are displayed as label boxes next to the object as soon as you touch them with the cursor. Dialogues are also displayed in the form of text boxes as speech bubble variations on the game screen. Only the dialog topics are selected on the lower black bar.

There is also a hotspot key with which you can display all possible objects on the game screen. Despite the many locations, a map function was dispensed with, which means long walks for the character. However, if you double-click it, it runs or leaves a game screen faster.

In the game itself there is no possibility of dying, but small mini-games of different degrees of difficulty have been inserted in different places, which require a certain skill and which are essential for the continuation of the plot. However, these can also be circumvented using a cheat function.

The plot is divided into several chapters, which are also interrupted by small comic-style clips.

Production notes

The game story was written by Steve Ince , who had previously worked on the development of the adventure series Baphomet's Curse . So Blonde contains references to the film Titanic , the television series Lost and the successful adventures Sam & Max and Monkey Island . In 2010, the game So Blonde - Back to the Island was launched for the Wii and Nintendo DS game platforms . This is not a sequel, but a variation of the PC game plot, in which Sunny gets to know new locations and characters and whose plot is also kept somewhat gloomy. The game also goes in a slightly different direction.

In 2012, Wizarbox released Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle, an offshoot about the female Captain Morgane, who made a guest appearance in So Blonde .

reception

So Blonde received mostly positive reviews. The GameRankings review database aggregates 7 reviews to a mean value of 73%.

Web links

So Blonde at MobyGames (English)

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.adventurecorner.de/reviews/245/captain-morgane-and-the-golden-turtle
↑ ^a ^b GameRankings.com: So Blonde. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .

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[GR-2] GameRankings.com: So Blonde. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .