Sit back, relax and delight in everything it has to offer. And then right at the end, you're left wanting more.
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle begins with Brian Basco on vacation with his girlfriend Gina, in Hawaii. They decide to take a little plane trip to see the famous Tiki Fall on Mala Island, but strangely enough, all trips to the Island have been cancelled, except for one by Platypus Tours. Reluctantly, Brian boards the plane with Gina and their pilot, Otto. But it's not until they find themselves losing altitude really fast with an unconscious pilot in the cockpit. With only one parachute available, Brian does the heroic thing: makes Gina put it on, forces her out of the plane and tries to soften the landing. That's where the adventure begins, with Brian's quest to find the missing Gina. Stuck in the middle of the jungle, his first task is to get as many useful things as possible and reach civilization to ask for help.
The game is divided into six chapters, but don't think they will be short and easy to get through. As any good graphic adventure, key items have creative uses beyond what you would expect them to, so sometimes you might not see the solution for a puzzle right away and will experiment with everything on everything else, but other times it becomes all so clear. Word of advice: look at everything, touch everything, watch the changes in your cursor as you move it around in a certain area. You might miss something important, like I did right before leaving the plane.
It does helps talking to everyone about everything, and do pay attention to what is said, since it will either help you later or be just funny and worth reading. Every encounter is memorable and you get to appreciate every character, even the bad guys.
Through his crazy adventure, Brian will get involved with the military, meet with aliens, chat with pirates, disguise himself as a scientist, bring a bird back from the dead, go ice fishing and experiment with alien technology. It seems like all these events couldn't even fit together in the same story, but they do, and they work too.
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