Cantaloupe Chronicle

Unfortunately this is not a very good game. The main quest is that you're a journalist writing stories about the small town and running errands and righting wrongs as you do so. It's not super gripping stuff, and it gets repetitive after a while. The puzzles are not great. Some of the difficulty is arbitrarily inflated. For example, if you've got money, why can't you ask a cashier for change rather than having to find a quarter somewhere else to play an arcade? Since when do gas stations not sell you containers for pumping gas? Why can you use your word processor to type some notes but not others? Etc. The information about the murder mystery is doled out very slowly, and I didn't get to a point in the game where progressing in that investigation entails more than talking to the right person once the game allows you to. There are also some very jarring details that don't seem to serve a story purpose. For example, there's a gallows outside the town hall, and a large crucifix inside....

Awesome point&click game! It's brilliant and gives so many vibes from so many different tv shows, books, movies and so on. I don't kno why exactly but it reminds me of Stephen King's THE COLORADO KID, a book I love so much! I'm having such a good quality time playing this game! I can't reccomend it enough!

Cantaloupe Chronicle is a nice and short point-and-click adventure game. It has inventory-based puzzles and interactions with NPCs but no dialog puzzles, logic puzzles or minigames. The 3D models and animations are perhaps a little too simplistic, but the design of the locations is quite good. There's almost no voice acting. Some content is missable; apparently I did a rather poor job of exploring the town at nighttime, and some encounters are available only on certain days. The puzzles are simple but still quite enjoyable. Item descriptions, dialogs and Fanny's comments provide lots of hints. One minor annoyance -- way too common in point-and-click games -- is that the interaction prompt for some objects changes from Examine to Use only when those objects become relevant for a puzzle. But since the game is quite simple, and it's almost always clear what we need to do next, this never becomes a serious issue. In fact, sometimes this change works as an extra hint. The notebook show...

I've played the game for a bit now, after the graphics caught my interest. It's a rather unique style, and the handling / UI is different than most games in the adventure genre. That being said, I do think it's a unique and fun game, although it might not be for everyone.