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Take to the high seas in Jolly Rover, a swashbuckling point-and-click adventure with pirate pooches.Following the tragically comedic death of his father, young Gaius hopes to continue the family legacy by starting up his own circus. It is with a blinding fury of optimism that he pools his meager savings together. But in a time when cutthroats and scallywags rule the seas, keeping this dream alive is going to prove much tougher, and more adventuresome, than he ever imagined.
Join Gaius on his light-hearted exploits to live out a dream. Voyage through the Caribbean, confronting all sorts of dire circumstances including pirates, villains, voodoo, love, and a considerable lack of loot. Explore wondrous locations, meet colorful characters, and cross untamed tropical islands. Can the young Rover follow in his father's footsteps?
REVIEW
It's easy to think of Jolly Rover as yet another Monkey Island wannabe. After all, it's a pirate-themed adventure game filled with treasure hunting, voodoo, and lots of laughs. But Jolly Rover is much more than the sum of its parts, offering up a surprisingly original and engaging, not to mention gorgeous, experience that manages to appeal to both newcomers and genre veterans alike. Oh, and it features a cast made up entirely of dogs.
The story begins when James Rover, a diminutive dachshund, is boarded by pirates, who kidnap him and steal his cargo. The pirates then sell the cargo to the suspicious Governor Guy Desilver, for whom it was meant to be delivered to in the first place. Unfortunately for James, since he failed to make the delivery himself, he now owes the governor quite a bit of money. But what starts out simply as a quest to raise up the necessary funds to get out of the governor's debt, soon takes a number of strange and unexpected turns, featuring everything from voodoo and ghosts to a tribe of man-hating female dogs. Read more...
