Filed under the Hapland/Puzzleland/Industrial Place Thingy category, Odubang 2 is an online point-and-click adventure game where timing and precision cursor clicks are your key to survival. Guide a spastic stick figure through an MS Paint world of red soil and gigantic green boulders. It's a short but entertaining game.
Your interaction with the Odubang 2 world is entirely by mouse click. If you can click on a certain area the cursor changes, usually to the hand icon (depending on your computer). These hotspots change depending on where you are, limiting your choices to the task immediately at hand. As you pick your way across the five levels, you'll quickly learn where not to click. Fortunately you aren't timed and can retry the stage as often as you like.
The goal of Odubang 2 is, of course, to make it through the stage alive. There are many creative (and unexpected) ways to die and each can happen at the slightest mis-click. It's fun to try every option just to see what will happen. The safe path through the level isn't always the obvious one, so some trial and error is needed.
Analysis: This sort of puzzle/point-and-click game is nothing new, but I feel like Odubang 2 is just slightly unique in a few areas. First of all, it doesn't take itself seriously. Don't expect brain-grinding puzzles or complex click patterns. It's trial and error clicking. Your attention is always glued to the next move at hand and that involves just one click.
Odubang 2 also uses the increasingly popular "paint program graphics" where it looks as if the author painted the levels with a one-color brush. Some see it as lazy, others as a protest to graphically-intense games of today. I see it as a fitting art style for a simple game. It works.
Yes, you want to give Odubang 2 a try. Many thanks to Gabriel for sending this one our way!
The original game, Odubang 1, is also available. Thanks to Role for the link!
Walkthrough Guide
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Here is the COMPLETE walkthrough (if you want it)
LEVEL 1
Click the catapult's left side and then click on thw wood below you. Then cick right at the left edge of the ground you are on.Then click the bottom-left hand corner. Click the first ledge, then the 3rd, then click the bit across the spikes
LEVEL 2
Click all the way to the space just after the bit of your land (the land you are standing on) then click just after the thicker part of land. Thenext bit is kinda tough, click the metal thing when it's horizontal. Then click on the fallen but of ground, then the ledge, then the other ledge (NOT THE RING)
LEVEL 3
This is bird's eye view. Click the hammer, then the crack at the far top right corner. Then click the blue button and head for level 4
LEVEL 4
Click the ledge, quickly, then the next, then to the other bit connecting to the wall. Then click the small bit of land and QUICKLY click the corner of that part of land. Then go to where the grass ball came and click the circle, then quickly click the bit of land that has fallen
LEVEL 5
This level is rushed, but still fun. Click the 2nd step, then the 3rd, then the little brown + in the ground. YOU WIN
Posted by: Alec | December 12, 2006 11:35 AM