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Game #4386
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths    View all Top Dogs in this genreCollection: CD-ROM Adventure Underdogs
Adventure   Traditional third-person

Rating: 8.41 (39 votes)

Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths box cover

Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths screenshot
Here's a riddle. What do you get when you cross an underappreciated detective who believes in aliens, Halloween Night, stolen candy, a kidnapped purple dog (actually a Tapir), and high-grade hijinks and mayhem? The answer is a whole barrel of fun! Italian developer ProGraph Research present Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths. The title is more of a mouthful than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but it's the grandest and silliest adventure to come along in ages.

Tony Tough, our hero, and fountain of wit, is a small fellow with huge glasses and yellow trenchcoat. His office, which Tony shares with his purple pet dog (actually a Tapir), is located in the basement of Wallen and Wallen Investigations. Tony is assigned to find out what fiend has been stealing the candy from the kids over past Halloweens. Most of Tony's co-workers consider him a joke because of his belief in UFO's and general nerdiness. One night, Tony's purple tapir sidekick is kidnapped and he gets a mysterious ransom note beckoning him to come to Halloween Park. Tony figures that this is the break he's been waiting for and he'll finally be able to prove himself. Tony swiftly travels to the park, the gates shut, and the hunt for Tony's beloved assistant commences.

It's quite a shame that this game didn't have a bigger success story because the staff at ProGraph have really outdone themselves, having created something very special. Instead of trying to reformulate the genre, ProGraph has brought back to the table what was so great about the adventures of the past. Tony Tough's interface is very reminiscent of the LucasArts SCUMM system and a lot of LucasArts style humor shines throughout the game.

The backgrounds are colorful, cartoony, and witty, and fit the overall mood quite well. Along the way is a colorful (sometimes very colorful) cast of characters that includes talking thespian statues, a crying pirate, a manic-depressive clown, a bizarre bazaar owner (it's the truth!), a soft-hearted poetic beast, and even more silliness than you could imagine.

Great puzzles abound and they all have logical, cartoony solutions. There are two difficulty modes, and the harder one will get the veteran adventurer's brains smoking. There is a lot of content to chew through. One puzzle even allows access to a whole separate bonus level! The voiceovers are so fittingly appropriate and the dialogue is so quick-witted that you may be not be able to hit the mouse buttons for how hard you'll be laughing. Possibly the best news of all is that you don't need the latest Pentium 4 or 3-D video card in order to run Tony Tough.

GotGame entertainment, the game's publisher, seems to be at the forefront of adventure gaming at the moment. With the release of 2001's sleeper favorite, Trecision's The Watchmaker, and Tony Tough in 2002, the future of adventure gaming looks brighter than it ever has before. So will Tony's theory about the candy being stolen by aliens prove true? Will Pantagruel be saved? Play to find out.

Reviewed by: doowopman
Designer: Davide D'Aversa & Francesco Iorio
Developer: ProGraph Research
Publisher: GotGame Entertainment
Year: 2002
Software Copyright: ProGraph Research
Theme: Cartoon
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: Windows XP
Where to get it:
Related Links: Official site (archived), Four Fat Chicks review
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If you like this game, try: Chewy: ESC from F5, Alien Incident, Toonstruck

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