Help a long nosed, elephant-ish…thing find a missing pet chicken in Freaky Trip.  It’s a wordless point and click adventure for Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

Like most point and click adventures, you move a cursor around a screen.  When you tap somewhere, your critter dude will usually go where you tell it to.  And when your cursor changes from a pointed finger to a grabby hand, you can click on that and your guy will (usually) pick up or interact with whatever you clicked on.  Each stage in the game is a single screen and once you solve the puzzle, you move onto the next via a world map.

The problem with this game is that it uses no words, which seems like a good idea.  But like the title implies, this is one freaky game and the solutions defy logic.  You can press the X button to reveal hints, but they don’t use any words either so it can oftentimes be very unhelpful.  Because of that I lost interest in this one pretty quickly.  Also this game is a memory hog on the Switch.  No reason why this should take more than 6GB, I think.

Kid Factor:

Freaky Trip is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief and Fantasy Violence.  It’s all just silly cartoony stuff and no worse than an episode of SpongeBob.  Since there are no words, reading skill isn’t necessary.  Kids oftentimes think out of the box, so they may like solving the crazy solutions, but they’d still need to be pretty patient to enjoy this one, I think.

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