Sep 212016
Back in March, I played a point-and-click adventure game called Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet for a freelance assignment.
You can read my full review at MonsterVine, but the short version is that it was hilarious, entertaining, and a joy to play.
(As an example of its humor, examining a roll of parcel tape has Nelly assume it’s “tape that can speak to snakes.”)
The Fowl Fleet, however, is technically the sequel to a free game from 2007 called Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! Spoonbeaks Ahoy! is now getting an HD remaster, and you can vote for it on Steam Greenlight.
(And the Greenlight page went live on September 19, Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is awesome.)
It stars Nelly Cootalot, a good-hearted pirate, on a quest to save a fleet of birds called spoonbeaks. According to its official description, Spoonbeaks Ahoy! allows you to do the following things:
- Rescue endangered and unusually named wildfowl.
- Acquire morally dubious items on behalf of minor aristocrats.
- Intercept the private correspondences of a daredevil pilot.
- Come to the aid of downtrodden supernatural beings.
- Be confused by Nelly’s obscure colloquialisms.
- Borrow facial hair from long-dead pirates.
- Wantonly misuse the word ‘borrow’.
In other words, it sounds just as lighthearted and funny as its sequel.
I loved Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, and I fully support an HD remaster of Spoonbeaks Ahoy! Go give Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD a vote on Steam Greenlight.