Customer Reviews

Bugdom (Jewel Case)

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This was the first PC adventure game I ever played. It came free with my mac. I got totally addicted to it, and it became an atmospheric world I moved in to. It sounds like a kid's game -- there's no real gore in it. Now I am about 2/3s of the way through Alice, which is a great game, so I have a basis for comparison and I can say there are things in Bugdom that are very unique in comparison: mostly these really cool water taxis and dragonflies that you learn to fly. Bugdom has a spooky kind of weirdness to it. The mac version doesn't have a save feature like Alice, only allows saves at certain definite points with these water drops you jump into, so you have to play until you get most of a whole level right, which I found a bit frustrating. But I got pretty good at computer games because of that, and I really do think Bugdom is a great game. It's out for PCs now, and I am going to buy it.

Bugdom is one of the rare PC/Mac games out there that provide quality fun, awesome graphics, and sweet game play! The levels get harder and harder as you progress through the game, but it's still cool. Rolling into fire ants, flying on dragon flies, shooting fireballs are some of the cool things in Bugdom. Uh, don't just sit there! Buy it!

This game has great graphics, and is not so challenging that it takes all the fun out of it. However, I cannot play it without getting nauseous. And I'm talking REALLY sick here! It does NOT do that to my kids, though, and since that is who the game was for, that's a good thing. There's nothing objectionable in the game, either, in my opinion. You do have to beat up bugs that try to attack you, but it's not bloody, which is a good thing for the younger kids who like the "action." If not for the motion sickness, I'd give it 5 stars.

As you may have heard, I am a longtime supporter of Pangea Software. I decided to pick up this game after playing the demo and hearing all the acclaim it recieved, and was expecting just that. Unfortunately, I feel the game doesn't really belong on Windows. There is no hiding that Bugdom is cute and innocent fun, but by the third level, technical issues will be popping out over your shoulder. The framerate often lags, especially in the eighth level, the night field, and the game can often become infinitely frustrating because of these reasons as well as the overabundance of enemies in certain levels. Also, some of the later levels feel rushed and short, including the three bosses as well as the penultimate level. Bugdom is fun at first, but such hardware was clearly not designed for this computer. If I were you, I would buy the Mac version. Even though I have yet to play it, it looks better from what I've seen.