I totally agree with chaosbot: this game isn't as good as the others. All he said was right. Nothing makes any sense, the game isn't funny (really, humorless...), the first puzzle sets the wrong tone for the game...
I got extremely annoyed at the robot with his fucking "it doesn't work - it doesn't work - it doesn't work"... Put something funny with weird combinations!! And I completely got passed the patch of dirt, so I had to click every fucking where for that and hear the robot's one-line... but that's just me not being good at point-and-click games, I guess... Anyway, missed the mark here.
Reviews for "Space on the Case"
Another fun time killer
"If you make mistakes it means you are not trying hard enough. So try harder!" The words of my great uncle, who was a jacka$$. God rest his soul.
This one misses the mark - it not really funny (I'm not even sure if it is meant to be funny) - and other than the need to get a warrant to search celery's barn, very little else makes sense:
*An anonymous tip without any evidence lets you get a warrant??
*NO: it is not a "space age fax machine": it is a vintage fax machine.
*So why couldn't THE DETECTIVE buy a wheel in the mall?!?
*Robots drink coffee?!?
*You can't go into the crime scene. You know - the barn from where the cows were stolen - its that case that you are meant to be investigating.
*I seriously doubt that intelligent dinosaurs would build a machine to keep unwanted users out of their bathroom. Especially a machine stupid enough to be fooled by dinosaur perfume and a green traffic cone.
*How does have a green tail make you a dinosaur? The dinosaur in the lobby has a red tail... so wouldn't a red tail have made more sense?
*Is he a detective or a space janitor? That is one serious poop if the plunger didn't clear it out.
*Futuristic torch? It's called a lamppost.
*Dinosaur manure turns dirt into spacegrass? Not convinced.
*Cows can't eat ultra green strong glowing spacegrass, but can eat fresh spacegrass? Surely they're spacecows!?!
Also the puzzle to unlock the encrypted message right at the start sets the completely wrong tone for the game.
And the locations lack any depth: they are all one or two screens - so it really does not feel like you have travelled to another planet.
Its a shame - because there is plenty of potential for humour and passing off the limited scope of things (examples: "I can't simply walk into a dinosaur bathroom looking like a robot, it would be embarrassing" and "Roboshop is the best place to go in the mall - if he hasn't got it, no-one does" (and he's all out of wheels)).
The background art is really good but I feel like the drawing of the main character should've been more detailed. By the way, what was the space money supposed to be used for?