Gretel and Hansel: Part One

I had a wonderful time playing this little game. I can see this game as only the tip of the iceberg for the crew that made this. I agree with the review that is simple, but not to a fault in anyway. Like fine chocolate cake, I am overwhelmed by how luscious it is while at the end I am left wanting more. I urge anyone who has not played around with Gretel and Hansel to give it a whirl. It is short and wickedly sweet, tempered by a delicate artistic hand. You too will be yearning for that second slice.

9 of 10 coins. Where is the last one?

I also love the graphics on this one. I am stuck, though:

Also,

JIGuest: Which 9 do you already have?

First Alice, and now this!

I love these stylized re-imaginings of childhood treasures. I hope the episodes keep coming.

Plus, this is a game where I enjoy running TOWARDS death.

@aktoaster:

As for myself, I'm stuck at the last one that gets carried away by that nice little squirrel. :/ Also I only have 2/3 acorns.

Ok, I managed to finish, but:

Also, re: deaths:

Loved it, would love to see more -- something longer!

I'm stuck at:

I love the artwork for this <3
But I'm stuck. D:

I need 3 more stones,

Where is the spider?

Nevermind! Looked at the walkthrough.
And for the clock;

Can't wait to see what comes next! :D

thought I was supposed to kill the squirrel and give it to the spider, but I don't think I can.

Waffles, where's the walkthrough?

while i was being stuck, i discovered something quite disturbing

too bad you "die" that way. technically shouldn't you win because you've solved the original problem? ^_~

AAHHH

(sry for the double post)

hahahaha, he cowers in fear when u shoot at him

jingidy: I know! Almost makes you want to shoot him again. x3

Paul: Scroll down to the author's comments on the game page, mind the space in the address.

Also, when I said distributing, I meant disturbing. ^^"

In this Walkthrough and Achievement I'm going to skip the part where you are in the house and you are already outside. This is a walkthrought not on how to control or use the character. And their will be grammer and spelling mistakes for it was type out in a short amount of time.

Walkthrough:
-House Area- outside the house

-Well area- Far right of the house where you can see a well walk toward it.

-Spider Den- Follow the arrow on the right side of the house.

-Inside House- The same way you came out of the house.

Achievement: total of 18 achievement

i cant even get out of the house!!! :(

@rhianna

To get out of the house:

I can't get out of the house either.

There is no fly that I can see

help

Did you

can't get out of the house.

Hmm... kinda buggy. I KNOW that I...

... yet my inventory shows none of these items, and the various bits of game these items relate to are not open for me.

Ah, I see. That wasn't a... thing. It was... that other thing. The 3 things issue still applies, though.

I found my problem. I was clicking on things thinking I was shooting, but was not. you have to hold down the mouse button for a few seconds to actually shoot.

I had clicked on the window dozens of times. Then I clicked and held to find that I was able to break the window.

Hope that helps paul

i posted a message a couple of hours back but it never made it on the board here,but anywat,this game is hard and complicated. I couldn't figure out how to do half of it,even with the walkthrough. i guess i'll wait for something else to come on this site.

Funny thing, I thought I had to:

It kind of surprised me but very awesome graphics. Love the style! I can't wait to see the next installments.

Can't find the last acorn and I don't get the thing with the flowers O_o

Do you have to shoot them in a special order?...

Anyway, nice game, I love the design :)

i don't understand why this post never makes it in the board but i just feel this is is hard. i guess i'll wait for the next one. that bee part especially is hard to bypass.

It's really saddening how pervasive and acceptable a certain kind of sexist bigotry has become. If this were a game about an adventuresome boy with a stupid, useless sister, there'd be all kinds of foofooraw about patriarchy and negative stereotypes. But when it's the boy who's stupid and useless, it's just a fun game.

You can't watch an hour of television without seeing a "loveably" inept and immature male with a hyper-competent female companion (wife or sister) in either the show or the commercials- probably multiple examples. The reverse is close to non-existent.

I won't play this game or any others which perpetuate this meme.

Hm, I can't figure out how to use the mushrooms on the (fallen) bee hive. I am either to far away, or I get killed.

How do i do the flower shooting thing? I cant seem to get all the flowers to go white. When i shoot one another goes back to being black. Is there some special order or way to shoot them and make them stay white?

Aside from the numerous spelling errors (every two seconds, it was a pretty good guide.

Mildly serious bug: After you get the thing from the squirrel, you can leave the room and then come back and step on where you got it to get another one. You can win the game this way.

Hi I'm stuck with only 2/3 acorns!

I'm stuck with only 2/3 acorns, there isn't the one the guide says is by the well when I go to that place.

How long do u hav to wait till

and i thought i had to shoot the rocking horse but shot hansel so i decided to keep shooting him till he died lol didnt know

lol

JIGuest: there is a bug and author says:

@Gabriel, I'm sorry. But, that is the most ridiculous sentiment I have ever heard. You will really not play this game because Hansel is a blubbering oaf who eats everything? It's funny, it's different. In all of the traditional stories Gretel is meek, and useless. How's that for a stereotype? Please, save your mumbo jumbo. If you couldn't figure out how to get out of the first room, just admit it. This game is a masterpiece and the beginning of a revolution.

How do you get the Cage to drop? I have the

and i've tried shooting the cage from every angle, tried shooting the pulley, the rope, and nothing is working.

I can't even get out of the house! Help! I have

Please help, all the walkthroughs are after you get out of the house!

@Amanda, you don't shoot the cage. You need to

I was stuck there for ages too.

Arrg Im stock..

I don't know how to use the stuff in my inventory! I tried dragging it and double-clicking,but nothing works!

The "Here's mommy!" part was soooo freaking creepy! My sister was in the room and she cried. Most goriest scene in the game.

This is a very beautiful game, but please consider that it is very useful to use words properly when you write a walkthrough. For example, a stump is not a stomp, and searching acorns behind a small or a large stomp makes absolutely no sense to people like me who have learnt English language at school and even university. First, there is not that much people who speak English through the world, and then, if you start writing slang or whatever, only a couple of Londoners will understand you.

If once, mind you, the sun never sat over the British empire, there is no reason for people of the rest of the world, to sunburn their tongue's skin at their historic and ancient ennemy's sun. If again we make the effort to learn a bit of this language, please make an effort, try to write correctly, like I try myself.

As a matter of fact, after looking in a dictionnary in order to verify if I wasn't missing a meaning of the word "stomp", which is a kind of step, I read the walkthrough and found the word "stump", which is the lower part of a tree after it's been cut down. This is to say, nothing in common.

Something else : most of the time, the captcha is considered like not matching, though you type it correctly. May be it's because of Firefox ?

Whatever, thank you for this very good game !

This butterfly will not die!!!!

Oh my. You do NOT want to see what happens when you manage to open the door in your room. You don't.

What, you do? Fine then. Here comes the guide to opening the door from Gretel's view.

I couldn't get the 'axe' ending, I'm not sure if there's a bug. I tried a few times, but

Is it a bug or am I forgetting something?

maybe I'm just slow, but I'm brain farting on what to do with the flowers, since they turn white but then won't stay white when i shoot them. Is it just that i'm too slow?(darn you, laptop mousepad! Dx)

If you don't know how to get the stone under the bird,

I can't get the squirrel...

Same problem as Nicole,.. I cannot use the stuff in my inventory. HELP!

I loved that this game was a take on a classic tale, the appropriate pleasant music, the beautiful watercolor renderings, and that it twists you into almost beginning to enjoy causing and watching your characters' imaginative deaths. Well, that's it for the good part. Kudos to the author on an excellent concept, but the execution leaves much to be desired. In general, I found this game extremely ponderous and irritating to play.

Without use of the walkthrough, figuring out many parts of the game was impossible for me. It is not logical; i.e., even when you supposedly know exactly what to do, you often must be in some unknown exact position to complete something - there is no point to such hurdles. To me, that's unnecessary and boring rather than vaguely fun or interesting to figure out. In general, rather than pixel hunting the correct location to engage in an activity / to use an item, move around an area until you see a thought bubble appear which indicates that you're in the right spot to do something and the bubble will give you a hint as to what item to use (except I think for the stick). Then drag the item over the girl to use rather than directly to the point where you want it to be used. But regardless of the hints in the thought bubbles, if you're in the immediate area surrounding an item, I think you should be able to use the inventory item rather than be forced to engage in boring hunting for one specific spot for an inventory item to become functional. I would also have the inventory items available directly from the game page at the side or top so an item could be tried more quickly (rather than open, click, drag to girl, it whips back, close, move girl a bit or similar, open, etc.), and perhaps then rather than hints in thought bubbles, you could make an item throb when the girl was in the appropriate area.

For those desperate to finish this (these are not hints, but detailed instructions, so don't read if you want to figure the topic out on your own):

FLOWERS ON WELL / BUCKET spoiler:

Elusive ACORN behind stump at well spoiler:

Knock BEEHIVE down spoiler:

Get STONE in BEEHIVE spoiler:

Get STONE in house wall spoiler:

Catch SQUIRREL spoiler:

Get stone behind SPIDER spoiler:

After getting the 10th stone I looked forward to setting the clock and returning to the house to ‘enjoy' the Axe Death. But I was immediately taken to the mini-game cart run at the end and couldn't figure out how to return to the rest of the game, so be warned to finish all you want to do before picking up the last stone. The mini-game at the end was very out of place; although I certainly understand the concept it should have had an intro showing the reason for it and instructions. The girl should have been able to kill the evil mom with the slingshot there and while continuing to run - while I hit the dad and the boy multiple times with the slingshot I couldn't get either to trip and fall to be killed by the cart to achieve the Cart Death or Hansel Death either, so I'm sure I missed some other needed element. Note you can let the girl trip and be run over to restart the chase. The last page was dull and a big let down - it should have been more far more celebratory.

Supposedly you can return to play it again in the same session even if you haven't saved the game as long as you haven't closed the page, but by that time I was so exhausted I gave up. What's odd to me is that it's as if the game was designed assuming that walkthroughs will be used to figure out not only what to do but also all the ways to be killed; either that or the icons and descriptions of methods of death that runs only AFTER the credits would have to be viewed and then the game replayed, which doesn't make much sense, particularly where as here some of the methods of death are so obscure. Please add the same death icons and descriptions that appear at the end of the game to the bottom of the active game page so we can keep track of our progress DURING the game. While I'm sure some people can figure this game out without outside hints, I doubt many can.

So much obvious time, effort and creativity went into this it's a real shame that the small amount of additional effort required to have decent instructions, better movement and action (meaning a non-pixel hunting layout as to location to use an object) wasn't applied. For example, it would be nice if it was indicated in any way to return to the house from the well or spider pages by trying to walk off the lower edge of the page.

- Constantly going back and forth between arrows and the mouse was ponderous. For example, walking the character over and over an item to get her to manage to pick it up is not a reflexive option compared with simply clicking the item with the mouse. Also, when trying to get in and out of the house (arrow to move around area until see pointer out, thought bubble with a crawl drawing, then click arrow with mouse button and cut to girl crawling out - argh, why?! When she has exited the house, please delete the continued animated crawling drawing in the bubble, and when she has entered, delete the immediate point out with mouse button - players have the concept by then.) Please improve the game by making it all point and click, as in click to where you want the character to move, and click to pick up an item.

- Movements are too slow. The girl's awkward movements, the cut scenes to and from pages, the cut scene of the death head and subsequent reset to continue playing, and certainly the slingshot use and re-use are all far too slow. Also, regarding the rabbit:

- Movements are too limited by the landscape. Limiting her access to the house to using the stairs is unnecessary. For example, after she shoots the stick if she's adjacent to the house, she has to go up and down the stairs to retrieve it from the far lower left corner into her inventory - why not allow her to just walk to it directly? Why can't she jump using the spacebar during the entire game rather than only in the cart game at the end?

I look forward to seeing a second version of this game after it's been tightened up - despite the comments above, it has much to recommend it.

Thank you again for this site, Jay, it's the best on the web in my opinion and just keeps getting better and better with time! What a great service you provide, particularly to those of us who loathe downloading games and look specifically for flash games! :)

i cant shoot the flowers. they keep turning black!!

This game is UNPLAYABLE. Gretel constantly, CONSTANTLY, keeps walking in any direction and will not stop. It's grueling and it totally ruined the game for me.

I collected all 3 acorns and put them under the cage but the squirell wont come....I have 9 stones and cannot get the one from the squirrell!!!

IDK! How to get the bee's away so i can get the rock inside):

I know this must be the dumbest question ever, but... how do I get out of the bedroom?
you know, I've already got the slingshot, but I can't manage to get out...

Please, help!

ok im playing the game and i only find 2 acorns and i looked when you said to look :(

I got all the stones, then

How do you get her to do that?

Course as soon as I post I realize it was in the walkthrough.

To get the elusive acorn behind the big stomp in the well area, position Gretel so her hands are horizontally even with the top edge
of the stomp. Walk back or forth to get her to get the acorn. If she doesn't get it on your first try move her up or down by just one or two clicks, it IS there, keep trying and she will get it....... R2

To get the stone inside the beehive:

How do will kill Hansel to get the clockwork piece?

@Ann Quark
You do realize how many grammatical errors there were in your own comment, right? Where exactly did you go to college? I'd like a word with your English teacher. Though it would probably be best if I spoke to them in person. After seeing the way they taught you, I'm not sure they'd understand a word I type!

I was able to get 10 rocks without having to deal with the spider. Then I couldn't figure out the running thing so I clicked the fast forward and the game was over. There is a flash after you click play of a continue feature but it goes away. I wish you could continue and keep trying. Especially since this game has medal for deaths.