Save the Princess: Love Triangle
Platform: Javascript/HTML5
They say love is blind, but even the most classic tales (excluding certain animated features) will tell you that frogs are typically ill-suited to marital bliss, at least when one half is human. In cute puzzle game Save the Princess: Love Triangle, the princess has been turned into a frog, and the prince needs to bring her a magic potion to turn her back to normal... though he's a bit dense. He's only motivated by cake, you see, so you'll need to click on the ground to place cake arrows to lure him forward. Click an arrow to rotate it to direct where the prince will head next when he encounters it, and think carefully about where it goes, since you have a limited number, and the prince will gobble it down when he touches it. Not only do you need to contend with steering the prince away from spikes, but you'll also need to either use some of your limited cake supply to steer away rival princes... or, well, lure yours to a sword to finish them off. Throw in some buttons and doors to activate to change the path, and things aren't as straight-forward as they initially appear. Though pretty dated when it comes to gender roles and on the whole very gentle with difficulty, Save the Princess: Love Triangle, is a cute, bright little puzzle game in a simpler vein of titles like Talesworth Adventure, making it cheery fun to kick back with... without breaking your brain.
Hate to say this, but, i'm not a fan of this game. Loved the Talesworth games... but, this game, I dont know feels like it lacked polish. Looks nice, the graphics good the animations decent. Though i'd sell all that cake, for a 'start' button instead of having to click the prince, person, thing.
Few other 'nit picks'.
'floor tile says turn right. I can't turn right. I'll go back the way I came'. why not.. see if you can turn left.
or... 'I come to a crossing, can turn freely left or right. So i'll turn 180 and go back the way i came'.
Seems like simple things, but, really confusing and break the flow of the game. 'oh you have a solution. sorry, the solution isn't what 'we' want, therefore it isn't correct.
Level 12 is bugged with the Prince leaving the field of play, sailing off into the sky.
This game was unplayably slow for me, starting from level 4. I got to level 6 and gave up. I am running Youtube in another tab, on current Firefox, but nothing else.
I would have loved to have been able to click-hold the cake and rotate freely to get the right direction.
I hit the same roadblock as Dodger.
liked the first few levels then gets a bit monotonous after a while. still worth a play though.
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