Nelly Cootalot isn’t a long game – it took me around six or so hours to complete the story from head to toe, and it’s one of the few games that had a perfect story length but that I wish went on forever. The main island, on which you spend the bulk of the game, is rife with interesting characters to converse with and loads of sights to see. The islands Nelly visits are exciting to explore and larger than you would expect for a game of this length. Baron Widebeard has really got a wide, green beard, and Harbourmaster Van Zandt looks exactly as evil as he sounds. The cartoony, hand-drawn art design matches the light atmosphere of the game perfectly. There are certain items that you can pick up and use right away, while others can and should be retained for later you’ll never know when that filthy rag hanging off the edge of the deck might come in handy. Pressing a question mark in the top left corner places a handy marker on every object that Nelly can interact with, but it’s entirely optional. In order to solve the puzzles, you have to interact with the objects in Nelly’s environment, which can be picked up, given to NPCs, and sometimes even mixed together. You’re first introduced to the game mechanics when Nelly is trying to get into a crate to sail off to Baron Widebeard. The gameplay of Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is comprised of a series of puzzles that are equally enjoyable but vary in difficulty and design. She may only be two-dimensional, but she makes up for it with her wit and charm, and she’s most certainly a protagonist that I’ll remember for a very, very long time. Even though I finished the game a while ago, Nelly’s British accent is still bouncing around my head.
She’s as smart as a whip and got a whole bunch of quips to boot. Nelly happens to be one of the most lovable game characters I’ve ever played with. Some of them have got a lot to say, others are rather taciturn, but they all play a part in Nelly’s adventure. In Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, you take the eponymous pirate heroine on a journey to take down the evil Baron Widebeard, encountering a bevy of eccentric personalities along the way. I’ve never been a huge fan of point-and-click adventures – I prefer controlling my character with arrow keys or joysticks myself – but I was intrigued by the media’s lauding of Nelly Cootalot’s script, so I decided to give it a go. Nelly Cootalot just happened to be the complete opposite: a point and click adventure with a sharp but silly attitude. It may have to do with the fact that humour isn’t often the crux of a game, whether it be indie or AAA even when it is, the type of humour usually isn’t my cup of tea, or the quality just isn’t up to par. My go-to source of comedy isn’t usually video games, although Saints Row 3 had me cracking up from start to finish. By Felix Wong Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is easily the funniest game I’ve played in recent memory.
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