Reviews

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  RipWitch

  Jul 24, 2016

  Slap Village is a Wild West point-and-click adventure game where you play a young girl named Luriditas. Even though it uses a cartoon art style, it is very distinct with very detailed areas. The various characters you come across are unique, to the point where you can recognize them by the outline (and most likely their voice and how they speak). Slap Village has a very fluid and consistent animation. This game may be colourful, but it balances it well enough to where it doesn't strain your eyes after long periods of time. Slap Village's story can easily hook you in during the first few minutes, and easily draws you in the more you unravel what is going on in the country Luriditas resides in. The various problems you need to solve requires you to think outside the box, and most of the time you will find the solution is right in front of you! It features good humor and minigames that will unlock as the story calls upon them, while making room for references to pop culture. The dialogue (English) dub is well made, with some awkward moments (and pronunciations) but it doesn't take away from the experience. I'm guessing this was originally a Spanish game translated to English, based on some leftover punctuation marks, but that shouldn't turn you away as it is still made well. The only problems I have came across is a misplaced dialogue, and some before me has come across bugs that halt their progress, but it has been fixed pretty quickly. Slap Village is very enjoyable and the mechanics are well rounded. If you like the art style, this game genre, and/or have been on the fence on getting Slap Village this game will be a great addition. I highly recommend playing Slap Village.
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  daytonfam

  Aug 11, 2016

  First off, unlike most other reviews, I did buy this game because I love western themed games like Westerado and the Westward games. This was hit and miss and not worth $15. The game just felt incomplete and there were objectives that seemed important that you basically skip. This brings the point that this is only chapter one...for 15 bucks. The game is also a vague one that expects you to click and travel until you find the next pertinent thing to interact with- which is fine as a challenge but you will spend alot of time wondering around through scenes that have very few interactive points or npcs. You expect there to be many things to interact with due to the visuals but a play through leaves you basically a lost traveller randomly clicking. Overall it just wasn't fun because once you get into a groove solving things you end up spending a half hour jumping scenes. I am the type that has to finish a game once started but I can't recommend it at $15. This game was obviously produced in a Spanish speaking country from the credits and starts you out with a mix of Spanish and English dialogue and subtitles (that you can change in the menu) so maybe it's a good language teacher ---and honestly thats what it felt like---someone had to say it. No bueno...
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  mystery_egypt

  Sep 11, 2016

  I thoroughly enjoyed this 3rd person point-and-click game. I see only two things that could have been better: 1) The running around in Slap Village was sometimes a little boring - just to figure out what has changed and where (character woken up, gift arrived etc.) 2) I had a lot of Spanish subtitles in my English language game - this should be fixed. Otherwise a very nice and polished game that kept my interest throughout. Also the few "action" parts of the game were solvable for players who are not experienced with such types of games.
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  DNICE

  Feb 14, 2017

  This is a very entertaining point and click game (be aware that this is the "First Chapter" and can be completed in 5 hours). The cartoon animation throughout the game is visually appealing. The voice acting is done well. There are points in the game that you get lost (like any other point and click game), where you find yourself clicking on the overworld map and jump from place to place to see if certain things have changed. Additionally the price point for the game is expensive and I suggest waiting for a sale (as I did). Slap Village is funny and entertaining. Those who purchase the game will enjoy it.
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  NannyLemonade

  Mar 19, 2017

  Terrible voice acting. The male voice actors are not native English speakers and pronounce words so incorrectly, that it is hard to understand what they mean. The various screens take way too long to load and there isn't much humor or emotion in the plotline. The game is also only one chapter and should be priced at less than $2 because it has really low quality production. Buy a different Point and Click Adventure game from a better publisher.
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  Overkill

  Jun 10, 2017

  [h1]Poor voice acting[/h1] As a massive lover of pnc games, I thought I would try this one. I just can't get passed the terrible voice acting to spend time on this, seriously it is awful and I am having to refund for the first time in 1400+ games. Nice attempt at a game, but with abysmal voice acting, this is not for me. I have every single pnc on Steam and have been playing them since the Amiga days, this is by far the worst voice acting I have come across to date. The main character is fine, the rest of the characters are horrible, even the grammar used is poor at times. My Score - 2/10
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  emzyyy

  Sep 24, 2017

  Slap Village is definitely an experience. I was immediately charmed by the characters and the art style, but often felt like my short-term objectives were unclear. The game also has a very specific style of humor, and sometimes the solutions to puzzles depend on that style of humor, which can feel immensely frustrating. Overall, though, it's still a pretty solid game, and I'm definitely curious to see what a sequel will bring to the table.
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  Bearboots

  Oct 21, 2017

  I make a point of only reviewing games that I have 100% completed - I feel this gives me enough information to judge a game fairly. Please keep this in mind as your go through my review for Slap Village, a game which I unfortunately cannot fully recommend BUT I do think you should buy it so that this company can generate enough income to carry on making games and improve themselves for upcoming chapters. From what I saw MonkeyToons is a smaller company that has not made many games for the PC so lets try to be constructive. 1. Voice Acting and Translation When I started my game up everything was in Spanish which is odd as I'm purchasing the game in Africa. With the exception of Equatorial Guinea Spanish is not spoken pretty much anywhere on the continent. Generally it's standard for Steam games I purchase to start up in English. I thought well perhaps this game was developed in Spanish originally and was later translated to English. As I played through the game I found I was right with several examples of bad translation to English and voice acting where accents resulted in mispronounced words. Is this a bad thing? Not really but it is noticeable and would bother some people. For me personally, I enjoyed the voice acting but would recommend to the developers having more variations of certain lines. For example, when your lead character says 'Goodbye, have a nice day' perhaps have it that sometimes she says, 'Cheers, was nice seeing you.' or 'Bye, thanks for the chat.' or whatever. Several lines were repeated over and over which was a bit frustrating but because this game is short, it didn't impact my gameplay too much. If this was a longer game, it would have been a problem for me. 2. Puzzles Most of these puzzles are good and some resulted in little cut scenes which I enjoyed. Some puzzles are however illogical and/or pedantic. I can't think of many PNC that only have great puzzles but I don't often come across ones that lack logic. This didn't happen all the time but there were about 3 puzzles where I genuinely didn't understand why my actions resulted in any change. Perhaps it was lost in translation? Some puzzles can be finicky with where you must click on the screen as if you are a surgeon of PNC's and being even 1cm away would result in catastrophic death. 3. Comedy This game made me chuckle a few times and had a combination of random humour, racial stereotypes, fart jokes and pop culture references. Some of it was funny, some of it wasn't but humour is very subjective. If you watch the trailer and think it looks funny, it probably will be funny to you. 4. Story and Characters One thing Slap Village got right is characters. All characters a distinguishable and have their own identity. This does not necessarily mean that they are great characters but they do what they need to do to tell the basic story. Overall the storyline did not leave me wanting more in fact parts of it I had very little attachment to. You can also see this when you look at the global achievement stats. As the bulk are story based it's interesting to see that at the start of the game 78% of people had unlocked the first achievement but only 38% had unlocked the last. Many people lost interest and stopped playing and I feel it was mostly due to the story. It's also important to remember this is not a long game - it would take 2 - 3 hours to finish. There is however opportunity in future parts to tell a well rounded story with these characters. 5. Achievements and Collectables This was really on point - well done! Achievements are unlocked through the story with a few easter egg like achievements and some around a mini game where you race on a pig to catch a train. As you complete a minigame in the story, it unlocks in an arcade you can access on the starting menu. You'll also unlock a cutscene gallery as well as a figurine gallery where new characters are unlocked as you progress. The extra's for this are actually amongst the best I've seen in the Indie PNC genre and it was considerate of the developers to put this in. One thing though is that there are no Steam Trading Cards. 6. Animation and Design The Animation is quite good. I love the thick outlines and the overall look of the characters. It makes me think of 90s Cartoon Network which I would have an attachment to as I grew up with it. It's not as good as any of those but it certainly draws inspiration from it which I appreciate. One particular cutscene was beautifully animated and I could see that there were talented people behind it. 7. Replayability This game has no replay value BUT this is standard for PNC's. The only PNC's I make a point of going back and replaying every few years are amongst the best in the genre. So yes, it's not the best PNC you'll ever play but there is potential for these developers and it's only $10. Give a try, you'll spend one lazy afternoon going through this world and just maybe chapter 2 will redeem the series.
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  glong

  Nov 10, 2017

  I'm giving this game an unenthusiastic thumbs up - it's an ok game that could be pretty good with just a little more effort from the developers. I hope they take that effort in the later games so I can give the next chapters a more enthusiastic thumbs up. I really liked the artwork and animation. Very appealing! The story was a bit jumbled up but overall interesting enough for me to continue playing through the game. I thought the characters were rather interesting. The puzzles for the most part were ok - nothing I couldn't have eventually figured out with the standard "try everything with everything" approach. That said, I did resort to a walkthrough to get past a few areas. The worst part was the English translation. It looked like they ran the original script through Google Translate and used those results without the help of a native English speaker. Some of the things said simply made no sense. I strongly recommend that the developers hire an editor who is a native speaker of English to clean up the translations of future releases, and hopefully put out a patch to this game as well. While they are at it, give the characters American names for at least the English release - this is more or less supposed to be taking place in the American West. For example, the lead character should be named something like Annie or Bonnie Sue, not Lurditas. The second worst issue was the voice acting. The actress voicing Lurditas is fine, although a western drawl would be even better. But all of the other actors have odd accents that make no sense in the context of the game, and some of them have issues with pronunciation. Combine that with the weird translation issues mentioned above, and it is absolutely necessary to use the subtitles to have any idea of what is being said. I suspect the voice talent is just fine when recording in their native languages, it's just that their native language is obviously not English. There is some issue with solving the puzzles. I came across one puzzle that used Rasta the rat. I could not get him to go where I wanted in the close-up view of the puzzle, but it worked fine in a more zoomed out view. I had solved the puzzle, but thought I had failed because of game control issues. Did the developers actually have game testers? My final complaint would be about interesting characters and many inventory objects that seem to have nothing to do with the plot. Lots of red herrings, I guess? They just distracted from the flow of the story and solution of puzzles. The game overall has a good design and structure, and probably plays fairly well in the original language. If the developers tighten up the game controls, focus on NPCs and objects that move the plot along, and fix the language and voice acting issues, I think the series has potential.
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  yummyjulie

  Jan 1, 2018

  Even if this game hadn't used Google Translate from whatever language this game was created in, it's still lacking. The cartoony style is cute, but the awkward and poorly translated language is a turn off. I tried to play it a few times, but just can't get into it.
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  Moon Unit

  Feb 1, 2018

  I want to like it, but it just really doesn't play well. The voice overs are kinda bit off, but I can see why it's endeering. The game play is clumsy, there have been many times where I have to check a walk through just to find out that new locations are avaible from clicking on a slightly different bit of the map. The art style is beautiful and well thought out, so I really did want to enjoy it. However, it's crashed on me and I lost a lot of progress on puzzles that test my patience.
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  spiff

  Aug 9, 2018

  Rather short game but very entertaining. Funny adventure, some western elements mixed with some alien voodoo. No über complicated myst bs puzzles, just occasional mixing of 2 items. Liked it, buy it cheap.
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  lukayson

  Sep 24, 2018

  Very kind and nice female character which is not making long and terrible jokes... I think I have never seen character like this in any point and click adventure. Gameplay is balanced, not too hard, not too easy puzzles make sense
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  debsaid

  Oct 15, 2018

  Couldn't even get myself to finish it. The art is cute, but that's about it. Not very interesting, and the main character... oh so annoying. I honestly just couldn't stand her and her preachiness after a couple hours of playing. "Only bad people use guns"?? Really?? Oh pleeease. *rolls eyes*
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  PinkieZilla

  Dec 28, 2018

  racist steryotypes and poorly translated
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  Rustyhanger

  Feb 28, 2019

  This was a cute little game. I would say it wasn't worth the 15 bucks we paid for it. Limited game play and I had thought there would be a sequel.. guess not ?!?!? I would vote it up, but they really made it look like there would be a second game and haven't heard anything about it since.
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  bluebiteydog

  Mar 9, 2019

  There's nothing "wrong" with this game, it's just . . . forgettable.
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  Grog_Guzzler

  Aug 18, 2019

  Amazinf humourous game worth every penny. Bring on the sequel!
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  sparks

  Dec 18, 2019

  This is a fun, quirky point & click adventure. The character designs are cute and unique, and the animated cut scenes are enjoyable to watch. The dialogue is clearly translated from Spanish and not edited by a native English speaker, but I feel like the language is clear enough overall to progress through the game. I would recommend this game if you are looking for a more obscure point & click adventure title.
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  yowler

  Mar 25, 2020

  The game is unplayable as when you get about half way in its save mode goes haywire. It starts by not saving anything and then deletes all past saves. They should give everyone their money back.