{"id":76478,"date":"2019-01-18T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/the_mystery_of_woolley_mountain_brings_bizarre_comedy_point-and-click_adventure_to_switch_this_spring"},"modified":"2019-01-18T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T13:45:00","slug":"the-mystery-of-woolley-mountain-brings-bizarre-comedy-point-and-click-adventure-to-switch-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/the-mystery-of-woolley-mountain-brings-bizarre-comedy-point-and-click-adventure-to-switch-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery Of Woolley Mountain Brings Bizarre Comedy Point-And-Click Adventure To Switch This Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa6fdc3bc8e12\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa6fdc3bc8e12\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CfFOOKV-vHo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Switch is about to play host to another point-and-click adventure in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mystery_of_woolley_mountain\">The Mystery of Woolley Mountain<\/a><\/strong>, but this is one of the craziest looking ones we&#8217;ve seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>The game is described as &#8220;an otherworldly point-and-click adventure&#8221; which takes inspiration from the likes of <strong>Monkey Island<\/strong>, <strong>Day of the Tentacle<\/strong> and <strong>The Trap Door<\/strong>. Players must join a gang of time-travelling audio scientists, embarking on a fantastical quest to save a group of children from a malevolent witch. As you can see from the trailer above, the whole thing is filled to the brim with comedic characters and dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>As the game&#8217;s press release is keen to point out, the point-and-click legend himself Ron Gilbert (<strong>Maniac Mansion<\/strong>, Monkey Island, and more) actually pledged his support for the game on Kickstarter (which was actually funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/the_mystery_of_woolley_mountain_will_bring_point-and-click_gaming_to_switch_in_2018\">some time ago<\/a>). It&#8217;s hard for a point-and-click adventure to get any better endorsement really&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Woolley Mountain 1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa6fdc3bc8e12\/woolley-mountain-1.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa6fdc3bc8e12\/woolley-mountain-1.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Woolley Mountain 1\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Woolley Mountain 3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/456baba47fb7d\/woolley-mountain-3.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/456baba47fb7d\/woolley-mountain-3.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Woolley Mountain 3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Woolley Mountain 4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c4cc018b3d371\/woolley-mountain-4.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c4cc018b3d371\/woolley-mountain-4.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Woolley Mountain 4\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Woolley Mountain 5\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90daf007f3b98\/woolley-mountain-5.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/90daf007f3b98\/woolley-mountain-5.445x245.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" alt=\"Woolley Mountain 5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Mystery of Woolley Mountain is now scheduled to launch on Nintendo Switch this Spring; if you can&#8217;t wait until then, a demo has recently gone live on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/521560\/The_Mystery_Of_Woolley_Mountain\/\">Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think? Are you intrigued by this one? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CfFOOKV-vHo?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] The Switch is about to play host to another point-and-click adventure in The Mystery of Woolley Mountain, but this is one of the craziest looking ones we&#8217;ve seen so far. The game is described as &#8220;an otherworldly point-and-click adventure&#8221; which takes inspiration from the likes of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}