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Since restarting the "Exor's Dungeon Reviews" page I've found that writing reviews has been extremely difficult. Most of these were short enough short enough that I either generally liked it or didn't, but in most cases couldn't say what has already been said. There were exceptions, of course, I had a lot to say about Beyond a Steel Sky which answered one of my hanging questions but dropped the ball on everything else. I had lots to talk about it but wasn't good.

What is there to say about Dropsy? It's a point-and-click adventure game that uses no words, only symbols (though they can be translated), but to go deeper on what exactly the storyline is would basically be spoiling it entirely and the ending is kind of depressing. As one figures for someone named after a disease, Dropsy is grotesque. Think Baymax from Big Hero 6 with clown makeup and Corn Nuts for teeth and you've basically got Dropsy. Despite having human parents (the plot setup is that Dropsy was blamed for his mother's death at the circus for sparking a fire), he doesn't look human at all. That is, in fact, the idea behind him. The design document refers to Dropsy as "pretty much the most disgusting-looking, creepy, useless being on the planet".

Other than that it kind of runs into the adventure game problem of not knowing exactly what to do, where to go, and your only way forward without ruining everything with a walkthrough is to try everything on everybody. (And to make it worse there are four different times, meaning NPCs are in different places and you do different things there.)

Currently I don't have any additional thoughts on this game as I have not yet completed it as of this writing, though as an experiment I did create a printable walkthrough for the game, and by "create" I mean did some fixing up in the Steam Community Guides to make it a bit more print-friendly; unfortunately I didn't fix the grey text so it may came out a little strange-looking. Another thing about the game...I do find it annoying that there seems to be a glitch that achievements you earned won't register and load until the next time you start up...and of course there's that one achievement that's so much BS that you'll probably never bother with it.

As Dropsy never got a physical release, it didn't receive a rating, though it got a T for Teen rating when it was released for Nintendo Switch in 2022, citing "crude humor, mild blood, fantasy violence, drug reference".

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