Jacqueline, Jungle Queen! by Eaten By A Grue

Review Skotthildur

Great concept. Good execution.

Comment DavyB

Gabe, type 'hint'!

Comment Gabe p.

How do you "get the squirrels closer"?

Comment gymnast_911

its good but I don't have time to read all of it. its not funny

Review jbellow239

Loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Review archerqueen08

Awesome game!!!

Review crystalwizard

The first couple rooms are written well, but I'm seriously frustrated. There are exits, but not visible, even when they SHOULD be visible. For example, in the first room you can climb up out of the plane. So there should be a visible up exit, or climb, or climb on seat, or something. But there's nothing.

So I made it to the second room, and once everything started telling me "I don't understand that command", I gave up in frustration and quit.

Comment Jesse Richardson

@Ashonai
Oh really?
I never noticed that before...

Comment Tallennar

One thing I really like about this game is that the giant clam holds anything you put in it. I won't list the various things I put in it just to see if I could, but suffice it to say that if you took every non-essential item from your adventure and put them all in there, you could still close the thing. I don't know why, but I like it. It's like a... Bivalve of Holding.

Review Tallennar

I really enjoyed the dynamics of this adventure. I'd be interested in some sort of sequel about what her life is like afterwards, using her powers to be the best at her job. I really enjoyed your other game, Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, as well. I hope that you make more games soon... or if you have other games somewhere, please point me in their direction!

Review Regisblackgaard

great game! i am appaled by b*****s like Susana who give this one star. Personaly, i havent won yet, but i would like to someday.

Review Cyril

Great fun. Wonderfully written with a great sense of humor. Was able to make it through with out any help although at times I was tempted. Everything you need is right there if you take time to pick it up as you go. Overall a good play and certainly worth the time. Thanks for the effort in putting it together. Can't believe you only got third place.

Comment Wordwordword

My only complaint is that the game will sometimes freeze up on me, and I'll have to refresh the page. Other than that, great game!

Review Susana

Lame and boring.

Review pinchme

Short. Logical. Funny and fun! Most importantly it was creative. Would have been nice if certain functions didn't require such a specific sequence of commands. overal a great fun!

Comment pinchme

just finished!

Comment mulanchan

great game, I really enjoyed it! :)

Review Paper Asssassin

This is a pure masterpiece! The plot and concept is fantastic and I love the humour too.

Review iwillbegentle

A great game, really fun with excellent writing though.

Fun puzzles that aren't too easy to solve and relatively straight forward enough so that it doesn't become frustrating.

I had to use a walkthrough though to figure out which commands I was supposed to use occasionally.

Review MisterPibb316

I like WAoW, but I prefer this game for a number of reasons: the length of this game is perfect, the solutions are logical (even though I did consult a walkthrough a few times, I could certainly see others not needing to), and I found the writing, including the humor, quite charming and to have the perfect amount of detail. Automated buttons (for looking, taking, reading, and so on) would've been nice, but otherwise, a very impressive effort!

Review ANN28

A very fun game. The length was good and the writing was great.

Review pappudoo

Enjoyable, clever and well-written, though I have to say I liked Eaten By A Grue's other game (Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft) a lot better. If you like the writing style of this, give that one a try, because it's much more fleshed-out, with interesting characters and lots of really fun twists and turns.

Review Matt_W

A breezy adventure through the jungle. The puzzles are fun and fairly easy. The writing is the real draw here; fluid and funny and fun to read. I enjoyed every minute.

Review redchemical

Very fun and it was actually one of the first interactive fiction I've ever finished, just because of its humor and amazing writing. While I had to consult the walkthrough a bit (because I hate solving stuff), the puzzles were enjoyable. :) Good job on this, and congrats on the third place!

Comment LoadedDice

I really liked it - humorous concept, very well written, not too difficult so I finished it in one sitting. Great stuff!

The few problems I found were minor - and SPOILER ALERT to anyone reading on. :)

- I got stuck in the apartment. I had no clue that I had to type "out" to leave. If there was a hint, I missed it.

- I had no clue I could take the ceiling trap. I was sitting there like, I'm super strong, why can't I "push" or "move" it. Then "take" doesn't even take it, just lifts it. It just didn't seem like a logical command, even after the fact.

- Was Notre Dame an actual enterable building? The text seemed to imply I could enter it, but maybe I was using the wrong command phrasing?

- Logic bugs - you can drop things in the aquarium and re-take them without the piranha bothering you. You can re-cross by the ape without blinding him again.

- Last (and this is just meant as helpful critique, one designer to another :), the gameplay was a little mechanically frustrating because I sometimes had to guess at phrasing and word choice or action-step order. Like the organ - I couldn't figure out why "drench organ" didn't work, so I saw the description saying the tubes full of water powered it, so I thought, I'll fill my tube with water and use it...and finally gave up and used a walkthrough to find out I had to specify "tank". Or at the end when I typed "put component in radio", "fix radio", and so on, before catching on to "use component on radio"...then was told, great, you can USE radio now, so I type, "use radio", and get the humorous but unnecessary extra step of having to turn it on first. Funny, but frustrating since the game just gave me a direct order to use it.

Just saying, programming in a few more likely synonym object names and commands, and streamlining reaching puzzle results when the player obviously knows what the solution is, would make this ga

Review deboriole

This was such a fun game! Not too short, but not too long, either. I got stuck once near the end and had to resort to the walkthrough, which is conveniently accessed by typing 'hint' during the game. My only miniscule criticism is that my attempts to sing and dance while playing the drum did not work. I also tried to yodel at the goat to no avail. But perhaps I am just too silly. :)

Review stella1

Grue, this is a wonderful game! Congratulations!

I thoroughly enjoyed the humor in the game. At least for me, the puzzles were quite challenging enough but logical. I only feel bad for poor Rosie.

I'd definitely recommend for a short, beginner to intermediate level adventure game. I think I got both endings - though I'd definitely choose being a Jungle Queen!

Review DaNiX88

This game had a very awesome concept and gameplay was smooth, but was healthily riddled with challenges as well. The icing on this cake was the clever humour of varying levels of subtlety added to almost every dialogue. The map was also very helpful.

I highly recommend this game to anyone.

Review sweetalker

What great, funny writing!

Comment ajacks

Moved the cathedral and got into the catacombs, but still can't pick up anything inside the cathedral. Maybe they're just red herrings but I'm definitely missing something - with the parrot, with Vola, with the volcano. Just running around in circles at this point...

Comment kibbdabest

Very well made!

Comment Dougie

I can open the main screen, but then I don't know to do!?!?!?!

Any help would be appreciatated. Thanks

Review adrao

One of the best games I have played on this site. The puzzles are very good and not hard enough that the game stops progressing. The pace of the game is nice, and the abilities that you continue to pick up keep the game moving nicely. The writing is pretty funny, overall a great experience!

Comment LeisureSuit Larry

finished it

Comment bluejay14

Awesome! I love the humor and the powers. I got stuck in the blue shrine.

Review karimcassimally

Another great game from Eaten by a Grue. Yeah, it was a little short, but the puzzles were so much fun, and the writing was brilliant. Thanks for this!

Comment Marzipan

Hint for everyone asking about the statues: the idea is that they're going to help you put on a concert.

Comment LeisureSuit Larry

Great. I figured out the Bobo statue too. One step closer. Now for Brachiatus, something about a vision.

Review Marzipan

This game is fantastic, I can see why it placed so high in the IF Comp. The writing is hilarious all the way through, the powers were fun to use and the puzzles were great. I was impressed at the multiple endings too...I got Media Darling and Ace Reporter, did I miss any?

A couple tiny things I ran into: if you try to read the french book a second time you get a 'no verb response defined' error, and there's a typo in Jacqueline at the end of the Ace Reporter ending. Also even after you clear the way to the trapdoor, you can still enter the building and it still lists the trapdoor and everything else, nothing's changed.

But the worst thing is that there wasn't any ending where I could get to that pirate treasure in the portrait. :P

Anyway, I can't understand why this doesn't have more reviews. Great job and looking forward to your next game!

Review Mike Munday

As previous reviewer states a little on short side, but this does not detract from the humour and fun derived from playing the game. Nice idea with the various abilities with a few red herrings along the way. I look forward to any future installments the author may have...

Comment saphiragon

nevermind; I figured it out

Comment saphiragon

what do you give the third statue, bobo?

Review JessM

Good but short. Really good concept.

Comment LeisureSuit Larry

Dang. Everytime I try to do something with the monkey friar he tries to drug me with his stupid daiquiri.

Comment SpaceZoe

Congrats on third place! I'm just about to try this out. Was having a hard time getting past that title art (poor lady's got a serious case of CAD-face going on, the horrors!) but the description sounds fun and I guess in a text game it's only the writing that matters.

Comment oxymoronicboredom

@LeisureSuit Larry ~~~ I was just stuck there myself! I headed north, drank the wine from the ship twice and entered the cave. Mimic the ape there and then you can move the cathedral~

Comment LeisureSuit Larry

Any hint for picking up stuff inside the cathedral. is there an idol of stretchyness?

Comment haveabet

When I try to take page of neat, torn,ext, I'm getting an error running script notic

Comment M4u

Congratulations! I havent played but we are proud of you for make it to the top 3 for the first time with Quest!!!