Member name: Potatoe

Review:

Happyland Adventures is by far the most interesting game I’ve played. Not by game play, but actually by graphics and music. It’s by far the only game that has managed to give me a headache in five minutes, a new record. But don’t take me wrong, Happyland Adventures is no by any means a bad game, quite the opposite actually. The game was created for a contest at GameDev.net which it won, it also got the award for best SpriteLib. That tells us something about the game already.
	The game starts off quite simple, you are thrown into a level and your objective is to gather a certain amount of Happylanders to open the exit. This might sound easy, but it’s not, it is quite hard and will require all your wits and skill. The happylanders are small creatures, that’s the amount of info I could get.. Anyway you have to touch the happylanders and they will start following you. You can only have five happylanders following you at a time. Then you have to take them to the safe area and go gather more. The game is divided into levels which are all big areas with fruits and gems to collect, but also there are evil creatures(everything that is over 1ft high) and you have to avoid these. Not an easy task, luckily you have 3 lives and can have up to two hearts in case you get hit by an enemy.
	The controls are pretty straightforward, Right, Left, Jump, Slide(on ice in winter special, coming round to that) and talk to old men. The controls are easy which decreases  the frustration level. So go jump and save the happylanders! It’s up to you to bring back happy into land!
	The level design is nice and has a lot of variety. So you won’t get bored. Too bad there isn’t a save feature so that you can pick off where you left, you will probobly never be able to see every level because of this.  So summing up crappy music and ace game is happyland adventures and I warmly recommend it to people in need of a cheer. What’s even better that the game comes with a level designer which is easy to use and a christmas level set that is even better than the original! So get downloading happyland adventures and play it!

Positives:
Happy
Fun
Nice character design

Negatives:
Annoying music
No save feature

Rating:
4.5

System requirements:
* Pentium
* 8 MB RAM
* VGA-card/display
* gamepad  (optional)
* SB combatible soundcard  (optional)
*Windows(?)

Official game URL
http://www.freelunchdesign.com/

Download URL
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d98peitz/fld/win32/happy_install.exe

Questionable content:
None

Multiplayer:
none