Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Whirlight: No Time to Trip is a new title in the works by the same people that brought us Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town. A point-and-click adventure full of gags and adventure is sure to await.
Now if you've been around since 2020, you may recognize the developer, imaginarylab, and the title Willy Morgan! From that Willy Morgan review, which you can also read here, Whirlight has some things similar to WMatCoBT and some things new to wet your appetite. Good news, it looks like we're in for more of the same formula in a fresh new story! The folks at imaginarylab did a great job on the last point-and-click title, and based on the demo I'm also expecting good things again.
In the Whirlight demo we take a trip to a fancy dream-like land with an eccentric inventor, Hector May. Afterwards we get a stint in his house/laboratory of sorts before we reach the end of the demo. Now, I hope you're all aware of how a point-and-click adventure works, or at least can infer so. In this case we have a 2.5 dimensional style sideview layout, at least for the demo, where you click on places and objects to move there and interact with them, respectively. You have an abnormally large pair of pants that can store pretty much any object you pick up, and can combine certain objects together.
There's a handy "interactable and movement" indicator you can bring up just in case you aren't finding anything, or you're hovering just a little too far away to see an indication as well, just in case you're having some trouble. Fair warning, not all solutions to puzzles are necessarily obvious, and some are disctinctly UNobvious solutions. On the plus side, nothing punishes you for getting something wrong, so experiment away! More good news is that the voice overs are well done and plentiful! No getting into a scene that's voiced one moment and not the next!
The art style is the same as in Willy Morgan, a retro sort of style reminiscient of older computer games, but without the quality issues. An adventure in a cartoonish land full of whimsy and puzzles is exactly what reminds me of old childhood games. The demo is, unfortunately, very short, clocking in at under an hour for me to finish so there isn't a lot I can really say so far, but from what I can see and what I know of Willy Morgan, I'm expecting great things!
Be sure to check out Whirlight: No Time to Trip, as well as Willy Morgan if you've any desire of a good old point-and-click time!
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