Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots
Captain Disaster takes a job delivering a package from Acturus-1 to Proboscis Major – not realising that he is actually transporting something that will put the entire galaxy in danger! Though just getting the package in the first place is quite a challenge in itself…
Our intrepid nitwit investigates interesting peculiar people, puzzling places and panicky problems along the way to saving the day, once he finally realises that something is wrong. Expect lots of laughs and head-scratching dilemmas before you reach the shocking conclusion and find out what all this “Million Stomping Boots” business is actually about!
Game Details:- Classic point-and-click adventure gaming action with a few new twists
– Retro 320×200 resolution graphics
– Fully voiced
– Epic music score
– Plenty of puzzles
– Plenty of adventure
– Plenty of comedy
This game has been a labour of love by 2 devs (CaptainD and TheBitPriest) – who should know better, but just can’t help loving the genre – with help from multiple other people over time. We were inspired by the classic adventure games produced by Lucasfilm Games and Sierra, and believe we have created something that will hopefully, like those games, stand the test of time.
“Death Has A Million Stomping Boots” is a love letter to the classic adventure games we loved in the 90s – CaptainD inspired mostly by the masterpieces published by LucasFilm Games, TheBitPriest owing more of his point & click memories to Sierra’s titles. Combining these elements into one game with a few modern game design features thrown in, the co-devs has sought to create something that looks and feels just like it could have been a game made in the 90s but never released at the time (though we promise you this was not in fact the case!).
In Stomping Boots you play the role of the eponymous Captain Disaster as he struggles to save the galaxy, having inadvertently nearly caused its destruction. It features a 2-click interface (left-click Interact, right-click Look), with the game divided into 3 Acts, set on two different planets and a space ship. There are a variety of people – aliens – well, aliens are people I guess – to talk to, many inventory objects to use, misuse and possibly combine, and of course a mountain of different types of puzzles to solve.
If you like comedy sci-fi, pointing, clicking and puzzle solving, this is the game for you!
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
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Fun little adventure game in the style of Lucas Arts classics.
The puzzles are mostly fair and solvable. There isn't much pixel hunting (the game even has a joke in one area where you can click on a single weird pixel, and your character comments "This isn't that kind of adventure game."), most of the puzzles feel logical. As an adventure game veteran I would rate them more towards the easy side, but they still require a bit of thinking.
The only puzzles I found a little annoying were the ones that require you to wait around for an NPC to leave his spot, or listen to conversations that happen in the background to get a hint for one puzzle. My favorite puzzle was the one in your spaceship, when the hand scanner doesn't recognize your hand because it's too clean and you have to add all kinds of dirt to your fingers.
The humor is pretty decent throughout, although a little over-reliant on references. You'll see a lot of Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Space Quest, and other popular sci-fi and adventure game franchises referenced in this game. While the game's jokes are pretty good when it puts some effort into them, I don't find references that funny on their own. For example, you get to explore a junk heap and there's the Voyager from Star Trek and the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, just because. Is it cute? I guess. Is it funny? Not really. Does it break the fourth wall? Absolutely. The game has a lot of creative alien races of its own, so it's not like all these references were necessary. I'm just not a fan of shoving in references to other sci-fi franchises for no reason.
The story is pretty fun, your main character is an even more bumbling idiot than Roger Wilco, and the NPCs are various flavors of goofballs. Just what you'd expect from a classic humorous point & click. The humor is very close to Space Quest, but the gameplay is of the Lucas Arts school: no dead ends, no deaths.
If you like classic Lucas Arts style adventure games, this will be right up your alley. Recommended.
Steam User 2
Captain Disaster in blah blah blah stomping boots is a wonderful little graphic adventure game. It's low budget, there aren't many locations, the interface is janky, the developers are also the voice actors, but it's thoroughly entertaining.
The protagonist is the typical useless, unlikable slob that classic adventure games feature so often. And everything else about this is classic too. Timed puzzles. Wacky characters. The pop culture references come fast and furious. But - unlike a lot of other games which go heavy on the references - this one doesn't come across as trying too hard. I think it's because it has legitimately good puzzles in its own right. Of course they are utterly absurd, but they're very deftly hinted, so if you listen closely to the dialog and pay attention to the descriptions of all the items, it's possible to figure out the solution based only on what they give you. The downside is that you still need to pixel hunt. In a modern adventure game, this frustration would be solved by having a reveal hotspots button, but I suspect the engine the devs used is too old to have that feature. Maybe something for the next one, eh?
Anyway, if you like funny oldskool adventure games, this should be right up your alley.