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Dropsy Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Dropsy’s circus of eccentric characters parade through a plot which starts loopy and aims for deranged, dressing up the otherwise dry business of using objects on other objects in dark comic style. It’s a fiercely traditional adventure game that starts with Dropsy the clown, his faithful hound, and a series of orientation puzzles (Dropsy can hug people and use items; the dog can dig and piss on things). Soon you assemble a whole party of misfits and tackle challenges that demand eidetic memory and no small amount of good fortune. On Dropsy’s quest to make the world a happier place, I’ve brewed soup for the king of a dump, raided a high-security medical facility, gone looking for little green men and much more. The variety makes it, and it’s rare to find a screen that doesn’t contain some alluringly cryptic point of interest, the relevance of which will hit you only hours down the line. The exceptions are the occasional repeating puzzle (expect to get a lot of use out of your chicken mask), and lengthy backtracking. One NPC had me trek all the way home for some shut-eye before returning to the very same place the next morning. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Dropsy more closely resembles The Secret of Monkey Island than the slick 21 century point-and-click stylings of Broken Age. It’s also oddly horrifying. ‘Dropsy’ being the old-timey term for oedema, the clown himself is bulbous and lumpen with a face that ensures children who didn’t fear clowns before sure will now. But Dropsy himself has nothing to do with horror, as marketing pre-singalong trailer tended to suggest. The clown wants to make people smile. Nothing makes his distended, grotesque face happier, and each successful hug results in a full-screen announcement and a scream of ecstasy. Dropsy’s ugliness throws the positive impact he has on the world into stark relief—people hate him, but he doesn’t care, matching the desired object to the right grumpy human (or extraterrestrial) just to see them grin. He has no ulterior motive, and it makes for a roundly cheering experience. In turn, however, this child-like, unabashed joy makes sombre moments—like visiting a friend in the game’s opening hour—shock like a popped balloon. The developers’ handle on tone is uncanny.

Open World Adventure.

Dropsy captures the absurd, heady rush of ‘90s point-and-clicks flawlessly—it feels as I remember adventure games feeling, where eking out the next bit of hyperactive story was more important than the puzzles themselves. But also preserved are the chronic problems of the genre: puzzles that feel like the product of a designer’s idiosyncrasies as opposed to common sense. I needed a vampire mask from a costume shop, but the proprietor was clearly operating a fearsome ‘no clowns’ policy because I got chased away on approaching the counter. I had a locket that belonged to him, featuring a photo of his wife, who I knew to be dead—returning this, I thought, was sure to reconcile things. Nope: going near that till with locket in hand resulted in the same fit of abuse. The irritating thing is, I had the solution but wasn’t going through the motions in the specific place in which the game deems it should work. At night, the proprietor moves somewhere he will accept the locket and make amends, but it takes luck or a methodical search of the map in both day and night phases to discover. In the meantime, I was off chasing smoke thinking the correct approach was no good. Wallpaper Engine

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Dropsy’s interface can cause unnecessary difficulty spikes too. Rather than text or speech, it uses a handful of pictograms to convey the wants and needs of the grumpy population, and since things are drawn in just a handful of pixels, translating what NPCs are trying to tell you is often more effort than puzzling out how to achieve it. In Dropsy’s world, the difference between a Twinkie and experimental medicine is not always clear. Dropsy is sometimes dysfunctional, but loving, happy and fun. Dark undertones like Dropsy’s nightmares and the fact he’s an arson suspect will get you moving, but it’s positivity that will carry you to the end. You’re not puzzling for personal gain, but to make the world better for everyone, and Dropsy’s enthusiasm for light, carefree problem-solving is infectious. The word “dropsy” is a colloquial name for edema, a medical condition characterized by abnormal fluid retention in body cavities. As such, it’s pretty much the perfect title for Dropsy the clown’s journey of self-discovery, and not just because its costumed protagonist is hugely rotund.

Text Free Experience.

This is a bold, unapologetically old-school point-and-click adventure that’s bursting at the seams with vibrant settings, bizarre characters, and promising ideas. Unfortunately, even in the absence of any actual dialogue, Dropsy is so bloated with unwieldy filler that it often stops being enjoyable and starts to feel painful until the swelling subsides and you begin to feel better again. It’s an admirable attempt to do something different that certainly succeeds in spurts, but just as players will discover along the way, not every ill can be cured with just a hug. It’s a shame the game’s impairments undermine its healthy ambition, because Dropsy is quite literally a feel-good adventure at heart, though you probably won’t think so at first. The titular clown is a bulbous, ugly fellow with the requisite makeup and only three yellow teeth. What’s worse, he’s plagued by hellish nightmares from the memory of his circus burning down with his mother trapped in it, a fire that many townsfolk suspect him of causing. Dropsy is not a horror-inducing monster, except maybe to coulrophobes, but rather a tragic figure simply looking to find his place in an uncaring world. Ikai PS5

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He’s also a big galoot, a simple but loving buffoon who just wants to make people happy, completely undeterred by their distrust and even outright hostility towards him. Dropsy’s desire to greet everyone he meets with a hug surprisingly represents the bulk of the gameplay. This is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing part should be obvious, in that the very premise is a heartwarming endeavour to bring some kindness to a hurting world even when that love seems hopelessly unrequited. Heck, Dropsy doesn’t even discriminate: he’ll hug critters, trees (not like that) and statues he thinks could use cheering up too. If you can’t feel at least a bit of joy in bringing a smile to the faces of those around you, then you’re probably a little dead inside and the life of a clown definitely isn’t for you, even in videogame form. The curse part of the equation comes from the execution. For one thing, befriending people is so prevalent that it overwhelms the main storyline, shunting it aside as a secondary consideration for vast portions of the game.

Puzzles and Hugs.

In fact, there’s so little actual plot that the sum total of effort required to push the story forward likely wouldn’t fill more than two of Dropsy’s six-plus hours of play time on its own. Then again, there’s so little to the story that it isn’t really much of a loss, at least until the end when it rushes off in a cockamamie direction that would make even the most radical sci-fi fanatic cringe. Until that point, the only mandatory objectives feel like extensions of the core conceit, as you create a memorial for Dropsy’s deceased mother and find medicine for his sick father. Along the way, you’ll first acquire and later rescue some little animal companions when they inevitably get in trouble. The bigger issue with being the resident cheer-giver relates to the game’s open-world map. Right from the moment you step out of your leftover circus tent, you have instant access to much of the world around you. Such freedom can be a good thing, but to be effective it needs to service the gameplay, and here it’s more of a hindrance. In conjunction with the lack of any substantial story motivations.

you’re left wandering aimlessly through the sprawling, maze-like web of streets and forests, deserts and caves looking for something you can actually do. You can try hugging everyone you encounter, of course, but after a few confidence-inspiring successes, you’ll find most of your further advances rebuffed. In order to make people receptive to your enthusiastic embrace, you must first help them overcome whatever is making their lives miserable. This is conveyed with no talking (unless you count some Charlie Brown-like wah-wah-wahs as speech) or text of any kind, but rather strictly through pictograms that appear as thought bubbles over their heads. Again, this is a great idea in theory that has been cleverly used before, but here it’s clumsily implemented with images and objectives that can be very difficult to decipher. Even if you do interpret the visually represented need correctly, it could take ages and miles of trudging back and forth before you find anything that remotely resembles a clue. It slows the pacing not quite to a crawl, but at least to the perpetually lazy amble of Dropsy the clown.

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If ever a game needed at least a double-click-to-exit option, the scrolling Dropsy is it. Instead, this game’s mechanics seem determined to maximize player inconvenience. The basic point-and-click controls are easy enough to grasp, with just a single-click moving the protagonist about and performing the default actions prescribed by the smart cursor on hotspots. At least, it will if Dropsy feels like it. Often he’ll simply shrug unhelpfully, offering no hint at all as to whether you’re on the right track or what you’re doing wrong. At times, for example, he’ll only carry out an action if you possess the proper inventory item (with no indication it’s needed), at which point he’ll do it automatically. One time I needed to hug a character a second time to overcome their reluctance, even though every other instance of hug failure means that other actions are required first. As sad as Dropsy feels whenever he’s rejected, discovering this arbitrary break in the game’s own rules well after the fact made me feel far more miserable.  Accident Switch NSP

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