#games2jolly

Games2Jolly is an infamous Flash game developer, which releases a new escape game daily. The production values and opacity of these vary wildly, although never really reaching "good" on either point. They're something of a meme in the Kusogrande and Mystery Tournament communities. I can't imagine reviewing each game, although they are kind of fun in a weird, mind-melting way. The main thing is that they use either poorly drawn art or cheap (free?) clip art, sometimes in strange ways that definitely don't match the questionably helpful text labels. There's a certain amount of pixel hunting to find items you can actually pick up or areas you can click into to solve puzzles. You pretty much solve puzzles to get items to solve puzzles to get a key or similar item to free whoever needs to escape. Those puzzles sometimes make absolutely no sense even with the clues strewn about the various screens of each game, and it takes awhile to develop a Jolly Logic brain, rather like the moon logic of old Sierra games. I will give them this: every game comes with a walkthrough video showing how to complete the game, often with helpful mouse pointing and shaking to indicate clues related to the puzzle to be solved.