Several days ago, this game wasn’t even on my radar. Now, having played the absolutely delightful demo, I’m ready to predict this European adventure will be one of the best we’ll experience in 2009. Indeed, see Adventure-Archiv for very positive German reviews.
Ceville tells the tale of a vertically challenged tyrant who finds himself in a dilemma. In 3rd person perspective, he has to solve puzzles and engage in conversations, often hilarious, with 30 residents of the land of Faeryanis. Later in the game, he is joined by two compatriots offering up the possibility of controlling all or any of the three to forge ahead in the story.
The demo woke me up with laughter this quiet Sunday morning. Employing gorgeous 3D graphics and settings, tiny King Ceville mutters to himself and challenges others to help him out. Translation from the original German is spot on, with excellent voice acting. You might want to go through all the choices in conversational trees just to get the funny responses. The script is great.
Puzzles are fairly easy, and recommended age is 7+, so I can see this as a full-family game and one I’ll play with my grandson when it arrives this week.
Here is the homepage, and I’d strongly recommend downloading and playing the 584MB demo (128MB video card required) from the game site or File Front. GoGamer will have Ceville available on Thursday for $34.90. My order’s already in!
This sounds hilarious, Rooster, and I’ve seen other sites giving it very positive press as well. Even though I’m not an adventure game fellow, I’m a sucker for funny writing. I’ll be sure to check out this demo – thanks!
I just bought this through Adventure Gamers’ Adventure Shop, and it’s being downloaded even as I write this. I’ll let you know what I think. Comedy games are sorely lacking; this one had me at Faeryanis :p
I finally got this one running, with a little help from the Adventure Shop. Imagine my dismay when the word was pronounced “Fairy-ah-nus.” That aside, I played for about 20 minutes and giggled like twelve times.
“ah-nus” is the British pronounciation. My English wife calls the planet “Urah-nus,” and often speaks about kicking me in the “ah-nus.” Quite classy.
i played the demo yesterday and giggled too.
OR, your mini review is spot on! thanks for bringing this gem into my view!