➤ The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo, the review of a disturbing and surreal point and click adventure 🕹

Surrounded by giant chickens, one-legged women, and sulking satyrs, can Mr. Coo put all his pieces back together? Let's find out in the review.

This is not the first time that the world of video games has looked at cartoons from the first half of the XNUMXth century - an example known to many and of notable quality is undoubtedly Cuphead - but Nacho Rodríguez, former Ubisoft animator and director of several short films, The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo has achieved a truly extraordinary achievement. Mr. Coo's animations and the quirky characters that accompany him in this short point-and-click adventure fit perfectly into a small but well-imagined world that seems straight out of a dream (or sometimes a nightmare). Inspired by Disney cartoons from a few decades ago.

It's a shame that this experience has already ended less than an hour after it began, but fortunately a "To be continued" at the end assures us of Rodríguez's intention to continue giving space to Mr. Coo in the world of video games. It's as if Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Línea had met Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney and the three of them had gone for a walk together. And if sometimes we had the impression that this work, defined as "surrealist" by its author, was only and only "surrealist", without deeper meanings than those shown, it is also true that the enjoyment of The Many Pieces of Mr Coo It can't leave you indifferent.

We tell you about this interesting point and click adventure with disturbing and surreal contours in ours. Review of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo.

The three pieces of Mr. Coo

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo, the review of a disturbing and surreal point and click adventure — The offering of a gift to the protagonist by a pair of mysterious hands is the episode that marks the beginning of the adventures of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo begins with a succulent offer: to the protagonist, the humanoid mr coo, a beautiful gift is presented, carefully packaged by a pair of mysterious hands. We could say that those hands represent the author of the work, and that the gift is that complication - the factor that in fairy tales begins the story told - that gives the starting point to the strange adventures of the character animated by Rodríguez.

From this episode a series of situations arise that take Mr. Coo far from his comfort zone, to the point of being reduced to three pieces. Don't worry: fortunately Mr. Coo is full of resources and his head will work to put his entire body back together. It's a shame that The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo sells out extremely quickly, offering a very small number of scenarios and puzzles, all of them to be solved by looking closely at the carefully crafted scenarios designed by nacho rodriguez. The idea of letting us control Mr. Coo's pieces in the final part of the game by alternating them with the press of a button is very interesting, but it is a very underdeveloped idea, which is quickly exhausted in an ending that us The decision was quite hasty: In our opinion, Mr. Coo still had a lot to say and the phase of solving the central problem (the fragmentation of the protagonist) is too short and concise.

Within this little adventure, however, we find Interesting and well drawn characters.. They range from a giant chicken, to a moody chicken, to a woman with eyes with thick, very long eyelashes and only one leg. These are themes that have reminded us of some surrealist representations of the past, but in which we have not always found a deeper meaning (although not merely symbolic). In short, at times we had the impression that no mystery was hidden beneath the splendid surface of The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo.

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo Riddles and Clues

The mechanics behind The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo are those of a classic point and click adventure. By carefully observing the scenario and evaluating the possible actions that can be taken, we will have to transport Mr. Coo towards the end, solving puzzles and getting out of crazy and crazy situations. If the exaggeration of the work does not make it completely clear to us what to do, we can take advantage of the advice book, which with simple images will give us a gentle push towards the solution. However, we would like to point out that the tips only cover specific parts of the puzzles, those that the developer considers most problematic.

Nothing that cannot be resolved with a careful observation of the setting, but once the surreal nature of Rodríguez's video game is understood, the conclusion can be reached without too many problems. Although some technical problems and bugs are reported on the game's Steam page, our impression is that in these first few days of release the developer has been very active in releasing corrective patches and we have not had any problems during our game. We point out that in The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo there are no texts. As for the sound accompaniment, we found it effective and always appropriate to the context, but not memorable.

Conclusions

Tested version PC Windows, PlayStation 5 digital delivery Steam, PlayStation Store Price 19.99 € Holygamerz.com 7.0 Readers (4) 4.8 your vote

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a visually distinctive product with great character, but this great quality is not always accompanied by the same brilliance in the creation of the puzzles and situations present on the screen. In our opinion, Mr. Coo runs the risk, at times, of being an exercise in style as an end in itself, although the adventure manages to entertain due to its short duration and certainly impresses with the peculiarity of the proposed characters. They are the lights and shadows of a clearly author's product, which is undoubtedly worth trying while waiting for a hopefully more solid and structured sequel.