Epic Adventures 1: La Jangada

Epic Adventures: La Jangada
by: Urchin Games

Series links: Epic Adventures 1: La Jangada, Epic Adventures 2: Cursed Onboard

Available: Big Fish, GameHouse



Epic Adventures: La Jangada opens with Minha travelling with her family
through the Amazon River to Brazil where she is going to marry an army
physician Manuel Valdez. Minha's father Joam is still haunted by his
dark past in Brazil where he was falsely accused of murder. A scoundrel
named Torres offers Joam absolute proof of his innocence but in return
he wants Minha's hand in marriage! When Joam refuses, Torres reports
his arrival in Brazil to the police and Joam is arrested. Can Minha
find evidence to save her father from the gallows? Or will she give in
to Torres' evil plan?


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Epic Adventures: La Jangada

Starts out slow and picks up interest level after the first few scenes. The notes after almost every single rose in the first scene would have normally made me say, "Forget this," but I continued on since I'd read some nice comments about the game a while back. I'd like to continue to see how it all plays out...

Except that I can't stand it.

I've seen people talk about fuzzy graphics before, and those have not bothered me. These graphics, however, don't seem fuzzy - they're blurry! Not a junk pile in sight, true, but you also can't find anything without hints (after the first few easy items).

Ugh.

This is the first game I've played where I didn't care about actually playing it - I wanted to skip the gameplay and see the story >_< NOT a good sign. I see zero replayability in this whatsoever, which is a shame since they put so much work into the story.

Fix the blurry graphics! then we'll talk