Stumbling through Frog Fractions

[davidn]

Another of the occasional Stumbing Through videos, because I am a huge sucker and took a recommendation that was made separately by ravenworks, kjorteo and someone on the GameFAQs classic games board. This time I'm stepping outside the normal subject matter of these videos and am doing a Flash game called Frog Fractions, which I thought would be a five-minute thing but - for various reasons, none of which I had expected when the video started - it turned into a three-quarters-of-an-hour epic. No real video thumbnail, because curiously, it would constitute a spoiler - but it looks like this. For a while.


Frog Fractions

I'm not sure I even know what to say about this game. Every section of it prompted an even more exasperated "WHAT?!" than the one before, and playing the video back, I actually feel rather embarrassed at having reacted so strongly to some of the earlier ones when there was so much more still to come. It's not Hatoful Boyfriend, of course, but that's because nothing is - and it served as quite a good metric to test whether my sense of lunacy was still functional.

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

SYSTEM ERROR: EMERGENCY CEREBRAL SHUTDOWN IN PROGRESS.

[davidn]

Now, which part of the video caused that? ;)

[xaq.livejournal.com]

The part that was on Youtube.

[davidn]

Ah. Good answer.

[premchaia_pre4]

I thought you said you weren't going to sing! Oh well, never mind.

That space dragon looks nothing like me at all. They should have gotten me on as an advisor; I'd have made it far more realistic. *preen*

Addendum: the score sums do appear to be correct early on.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Their history of boxing was spot-on, though. Nice to see a developer properly doing their research.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Ribbit.

[igorium.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Chasm Spasm? http://www.rathergood.com/chasm

[davidn]

I... have now! I knew something must be about to happen, but... that was quite special :)

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

My favourite part is when the frog is visited be a majestic, angelic creature late at night. . and you come piping on, giving her the voice of a grumpy lunchlady in a hairnet, who's only smoked her first pack of cigarettes that day.


Also. . is there seriously a family named "Lillicrap"????

[davidn]

Yes, Christopher Lillicrap of the Noel Gay Organization for People With Really Stupid Names.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

Now, can you imagine the sequel? The Frog Bug President of Bug Mars (and galaxy's biggest producer of Bug Porn) decides to teach everyone about traffic safety and how to cross a river, via the medium of a pinball tournament in a beat-em-up involving humungous Bug (or possibly Frog) mecha.

Yes, it's safe to say I've come through that video completely unaffected.

D.F.

[davidn]

As part of my aggressive cutting of the 20-minute-plus confused initial section, I almost removed my speculation of "What's next, a 3D first-person-shooter section?" when it was just transforming into a typing tutor, but it was so accidentally prophetic of the style of madness that would come later that I had to leave it in. That's exactly the sort of sequence that I could believe this game was capable of.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I'm actually kinda disappointed it didn't mutate into Castle Bugenstein at some point...I would have loved to have heard some 8-bit renditions of 90's rock tunes while running away from the classic "w-THONK w-THONK buzzzzz" of a Cybugdemon.

Also, I think I've recovered from the mental ordeal that game left me with...not enough to watch it again, however.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Aside from this... extremely bizarre game, since you mentioned it, I'm actually considering Livestreaming a text-adventure game and want to try to figure out all the logistics behind it since it includes a map.

Also, I would like to have people help me solve the game through the chat. ^^

[davidn]

A multiplayer cooperative text adventure like that sounds like an interesting idea... though (especially if I'm playing, as evidenced in this video) prepare yourself for some weird responses ;)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I still want to do it -- and having the chat work together will undoubtedly bring in some completely unexpected results. Who knows, even the "bugger it all" answers may actually yield some wonderful responses, considering how inventive the Infocom engine was :)