Teenagent (1994)

Ok, I expected nothing from Teenagent and I wanted to quickly check off games that I could try-it-and-leave-it. On one hand, it was slightly engaging with its simple premise and the game didn't take itself fully seriously, either. In fact, there are some zany, cartoonish moments that add some entertainment into it.

On the other hand, I've somehow got nearly half-way until I fell back to the walkthrough guide and I realized that the game is riddled with illogical solutions. I am aware that the fun with adventure games is the way you have to think outside the box to come up with unorthodox means of overcoming obstacles but when ideas fail me, I find myself more than often mixing items together and whatnot to make an accidental progress. The Polish dev team seem still green when it comes to design and approvals, would be best to leave some hints to sow seeds of proper ideas for the players to follow.

Nevertheless, the game took me just a couple of hours with the guide on 2nd half and I can't recommend it for today's players, as much as I enjoyed the characters and the humor somewhat.

This is a point & click adventure made by a Polish studio back in 1994. There is no manual, so if you want to see for yourself how bizarre it is here are the controls:

• Left-click: look
• Right-click: use
• F4: menu

There is an unskippable intro that takes several minutes. And i literally mean unskippable, you have to sit through it every time you start the game. Afterwards the actual game starts and i'm pretty sure it was written by aliens. You have to bribe soldiers with a kaleidoscope and a magazine? To get a cup of mud you have to make yourself fall in the mud? The list goes on and on. There's no way you can actually complete this game without a walkthrough, unless you're an alien too.

The game is actually fairly amusing but that doesn't make up for its flaws.

You can play it for free on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/game/teenagent

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You just gotta combine a drugged bird with a radio, prepare mud-filled mug while the bartender tends to the bird, and then tell him to drink it. Simple as that.