By Adam Smith on October 26th, 2011 at 9:25 am.
Does anyone care about The Adventures of Tintin? I don’t mean the books, the cartoon or even the film, I mean the game, which Dan’s pre-release thoughts may have actively diminished interest in. If you’re still willing to give the game a chance though, good news has intrepidly burst onto the scene in the form of a demo. As far as I can tell, it’s only available on GamersGate at the moment, but you don’t even need an account there to download it, you can just captcha your way through instead. My immense fondness for Tintin means I’ll inevitably try this at some point. Good to have the option of doing that for free.
26/10/2011 at 09:35 Syra says:
I’m still interested!
26/10/2011 at 09:41 Kemuel says:
Reading this it occurred to me how well stuff like Tintin and Asterix would suit the Travellers Tales Lego game model.
26/10/2011 at 09:43 Adam Smith says:
Reading wot you wrote made me pine for Lego Tintin all over again. I’d love to see them go a more vintage route – Lego Popeye, Lego Dick Tracy, Lego Bible Stories.
26/10/2011 at 09:45 Syra says:
Ahh, Lego Sodom and Gomorrah, the kids will love it.
26/10/2011 at 10:18 Tams80 says:
Lego Noah’s Ark.
26/10/2011 at 10:57 Snargelfargen says:
May I direct your intention to http://www.thebricktestament.com/
The Lego Bible. The old testament stuff is rather grim.
26/10/2011 at 11:08 Tams80 says:
http://www.thebricktestament.com/judges/massacre_at_bezek/jg01_06c.html
Lol.
26/10/2011 at 20:42 lasikbear says:
@Snargelfargen, when I was taking a class on the Old Testament in college we would only consult with that version for any verses that came up in class, made it much more exciting.
26/10/2011 at 22:29 DigitalSignalX says:
I’m not sure if this is comedy or serious.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/joshua/the_spies_and_the_prostitute/jos02_01c.html
wait. Still not sure.
26/10/2011 at 10:00 neolith says:
The water looks surprisingly good in that screenshot.
26/10/2011 at 10:08 kukouri says:
Yes, it looks very good.
26/10/2011 at 10:09 kukouri says:
I’m only interested if I can punch that guy with the blackbeard and hat in the face. I always hated that man.
26/10/2011 at 13:41 Smion says:
Heathen!
26/10/2011 at 14:54 Hoaxfish says:
Well, my dad looks a bit like him, and I punched him once… so there you go.
26/10/2011 at 10:15 mjig says:
Is Tintin just not an American thing because I had never heard of it until a few months ago. Apparently it’s a bunch of children’s tales or something?
26/10/2011 at 10:20 The Tupper says:
It’s stories European liberals tell their kids so they grow up to be bankers.
26/10/2011 at 10:20 Tams80 says:
I feel very sorry for you having missed out on Tintin.
26/10/2011 at 10:43 Thermal Ions says:
Was suitably popular “Downunder” too.
Maybe this recent exporting of Tintin to the US is an attempt to assist the European debt crisis. Sounds like a good deal all round.
26/10/2011 at 10:45 Xocrates says:
Tintin is a bit too adult for kids and a bit too whimsy for adults, which technically makes it “for all ages”.
Also, it’s belgian comic which distinctly lacks muscled dudes in spandex, so I don’t find it surprising that it never really took in the US as the target demographic expects other things from comics.
26/10/2011 at 10:48 Rinox says:
They’re not children’s tales, but you could say that Tintin is the eternal boy in all of us…squeaky clean, inquisitive, energetic and with a large sense of justice.
It’s hard to explain Tintin to someone who hasn’t read it though. I suggest you swing by the library and pick up a few issues. :-) I’d recommend Tintin in Tibet, the 7 Crystal Balls, The Crab with the Golden Claws and the Blue Lotus.
Of course, reading all of them and in the right order would be more fun.
26/10/2011 at 10:52 The Tupper says:
@ Rinox: “…you could say that Tintin is the eternal boy in all of us…squeaky clean, inquisitive, energetic and with a large sense of justice.”
That pretty much describes exactly what I *wasn’t* like as a boy.
26/10/2011 at 11:15 Squirrelfanatic says:
Don’t forget to pick up Tintin’s adventures, Lovecraftian style: http://www.thelovecraftsman.com/2011/03/hp-lovecraft-and-cthulhu-meet.html
26/10/2011 at 11:25 Bhazor says:
For anyone looking for a place to start, my favourite is probably the one where Tintin overthrows the British government for lax safety regulation on building sites.
http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image052.html
“This is a work picket-line not a queers picnic! Piss off before you give us all aids.”
26/10/2011 at 18:45 jamesgecko says:
Tintin is more or less that opening sequence from the third Indiana Jones movie made into a series of comic books. Except that he’s supposed to be a journalist or something. Whatever, that’s not important.
What *is* important is that he goes treasure hunting in the Pacific, takes down mobsters in New York, fights criminals on a moon mission, and prevents a city from being demolished by an invention that weaponizes sound, and investigates the theft of the crown jewels. Among other things. Basically, whatever pulp adventure setting the author felt like putting his characters in.
They’re great, go read them.
26/10/2011 at 22:33 simonh says:
Or if you think works by an author who’s been dead for 28 years should probably be in the public domain anyway, instead of going to the library you could just get these excellent PDF scans (put them on your phone, read them on the subway!), though of course the physical magazines are nice.
26/10/2011 at 10:38 Rii says:
Screenshot(?) looks like someone pasted Tintin into the Tomb Raider reboot trailer.
26/10/2011 at 11:56 Syra says:
Yep that bit is in the demo, it is a screenshot. The water doesn’t looks so good in motion, but its great in stills :P
26/10/2011 at 12:29 UnravThreads says:
I’d say it looks like Hydrophobia.
26/10/2011 at 10:44 Iain_1986 says:
Please tell me it uses the TV theme tune?
26/10/2011 at 11:04 Deadly Habit says:
I’m hopeful this will be a good game and not a movie game rushed failure
26/10/2011 at 11:17 Tams80 says:
Grrrrr, keyboard navigation. I can only just excuse Mini Ninjas for it, so this had better bee good. Hopes not very high though.
27/10/2011 at 08:03 siegarettes says:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-20-the-adventures-of-tintin-the-secret-of-the-unicorn-review
Eurogamer Review on Tin Tin. 7/10 if you don’t want to actually, you know, read it. Basically an above average platformer with some good gameplay, marred by small distractions from the core game.
Apparently also has some excellent co op. Also worth noting is that some of the team behind Beyond Good and Evil worked on it.
26/10/2011 at 11:55 Syra says:
I PLAYED IT!
It’s actually a lot of fun O_o…. satisfying platforming, it’s a little on the simple side mechanics wise but the difficulty seems to be tuned a bit high for little kids. It’s very tintin though which is pleasing.
26/10/2011 at 12:43 YogSo says:
“…I silently cursed that they had to put aliens in Tintin for modern audiences”.
Er… Hergé himself put aliens in Tintin already?
26/10/2011 at 13:11 westyfield says:
Yeah, I was about to point that out. Also, The Shooting Star was a bit alien-y – the space shroom is technically an alien lifeform.
26/10/2011 at 13:41 Syra says:
not to mention the whole explorers of the moon thing
26/10/2011 at 13:56 Adam Smith says:
Yes but….LOOK OVER THERE
I lose this round. But I really did have an awful moment where I thought there was going to be a Roswell breakout and slathering beclawed shapeshifters. Different aliens for different times.
26/10/2011 at 14:32 adonf says:
@Adam: I don’t think Spielberg is going anywhere near Roswell anymore, not after the Indy 4 debacle.
26/10/2011 at 14:35 adonf says:
I think the movie’s out today (At least in Europe. In the US in December for some unknown reason. Maybe so that they can get a worldwide DVD release. But Anyways…).
If anyone has seen it already, can you tell if the Captain is still a drunk or if they got all American and made him a sober man? This is my main concern with this film.
26/10/2011 at 14:55 Hoaxfish says:
No, he’s still a drunkard (and still a violent one at times), and it does screw up Tintin’s plans a number of times.
There are also machine guns, and Tintin uses a pistol… no walky-talkies here.
26/10/2011 at 15:18 adonf says:
Awesome, thank you.