Edgar – Bokbok in Boulzac – Nintendo Switch – Review

Review code provided by Future Friends Games
for Nintendad.co.uk
Edgar is a pumpkin and squash farmer who lives
with his chicken that I believe is named Precious.
One day the machine used to keep the lionfiles
at bay fails and thus he sets out to the town
of Boulzac to find more Razidium to save the
squash (and pumpkins).
No one is particularly helpful, and are more
interested in their green pendants.
This is a bit of a point and click adventure
game.
You move Edgar around and can store five items
in his inventory.
You’ll generally converse with townspeople
to find what you need, and do some fetching
and trading.
There are times when you’ll need to combine
different items but not many.
You have some dialogue options but can usually
use them all.
Outside of that there are rare occasions with
other gameplay, such as sneaking your chicken
to steal keys without getting spotted and
a chase sequence.
Once you’ve finished the main game, pressing
continue game will give you recipes for: Squash
Gratin, Squash Flan, Butternut Squash Soup
and Pumpkin Crumble.
Of course if you start a new game on your
profile you’ll have to beat it again to
find the recipes so.. don’t do that!
Edgar’s world

is done in an illustrated
style.
Which is charmingly chunky.
Thanks to the small village cast no characters
appear to look the same.
The game has intermittent rain that doesn’t
seem to change much but having a weather cycle
is something novel in a game like this.
There’s no voice acting, unless you count
the chook.
Who expresses themself with boks and emojis.
Most text is shown in speech bubbles.
The musical tunes that play can be rather
nice, though most of your time will be in Boulzac which plays next to none.
I had absolutely no technical issues with
the game and it ran perfectly fine.
Unlike many point and click adventure games
Edgar – Bokbok in Boulzac offers absolutely no challenge.
One of the few instances where I had to combine
items I did so basically on accident.
Often the game will show you the icon of what
item is needed, mostly in the early part.
I beat the game in two hours and at least
twenty minutes was running around from my
own idiocy at not noticing the antique store
had a new item.
The story does have a lot of silly light humor,
the dress code exchange where he says “there’re
gucchiz” is the worst example but one of
my favourites.
While there’s a darker side to the story
it’s by no means scary or grotesque.
Though it’s charming with some light humor
that (and a few recipes) is all the game has to offer.
With no complex puzzles to speak of.
Both the story and gameplay are quite shallow.
If you’re interested in some light humour and
don’t mind the brevity, then this can be an enjoyable game.
I found it much too simple and don’t believe
it’ll be very memorable.
Though I’m looking forward to giving a recipe
or two a try.
I just have to beat the game again first.
I give Edgar Bokbok in Boulzac a four out
of ten.
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Bye.
*wet plopping sound*

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