What it does best
Layered cartoon-logic puzzles that reward persistence
A gleefully strange cartoon world that keeps the jokes coming
A hand-drawn cartoon identity with unforgettable visual contrast
A bold live-action-and-animation adventure hybrid
What might put you off
Occasional moon-logic and very difficult puzzles
Broad, vulgar, and sometimes dated humor
The setup
What you are walking into
Toonstruck is an adventure game released in 1996 in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc (played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an actual video-captured representation of the actor (the name is a pun, since the character has "drawn a blank" on coming up with a new idea for a character). Drew's sidekick, crudely named Flux Wildly, is a drawn character voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV and was also one of the first video games to include stock music from APM Music, notably the classic "Spooky Scherzo" by Sam Fonteyn and "Lonely Hearts Club A" by David Bell.
Where it lives
Genre
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