An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

An American Tale: Fievel Goes West is a point-and-click adventure game, whose plot loosely refers to a well-known series of animated films, in Poland known as the American story.

The main character of the game is Fievel Mousekwitz - a small, seven-year-old mouse, whose parents decide to emigrate from Russia to the United States. The caregivers believe that there are no cats in the milk and honey of the flowing America that are so sharply marked in their homeland. The family gets on board a transatlantic ship and sets off on a long journey. A calm cruise turns into hell when a storm starts raging on the ocean. Little Fievel falls overboard and, carried by high waves, is thrown ashore near New York City. Separated from his parents, the mouse must now try to survive in the big metropolis and find its relatives at all costs.

In terms of operation, the game is not much different from other products using the point-and-click interface. All commands are given with the mouse, pointing to the object we are interested in. The rest is handled by the program, independently selecting the appropriate command depending on the situation. Fievel can pick up and collect items, use them, talk to NPCs and move between locations. As it happens in adventures, proper use of things found and exhaustive conversations with other characters are the key to success. The programme also includes a number of simple mini-games, the completion of which allows for a variety of benefits.

The game offers nice low resolution graphics (VGA), although the contrast between static, digitized backgrounds and animated characters is high. The authors did not contribute to the design of the characters, as a result of which the latter clearly stand out from the rest of the graphic elements. The competition is accompanied by a few music pieces and simple sound effects.

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Last updated on August 14, 2015