History VideoGame / JollyRover

* VideogameObjectives: The status bar at the top of the screen is constantly updated, not only with James' current objective, but with whatever's going on, period - usually a bizarre nonsense objective during a cutscene, or James' current (and frequently hilarious) thoughts.

* BloodMagic: [[spoiler: The "Raise the Dead" voodoo spell requires some blood from a living relative. Fortunately, Clara is amenable to providing some of hers if James presents her with the jar he's collecting ingredients in.]]

* CainAndAbel: Governor Guy [=DeSilver=] and his brother Alexander [[spoiler: a.k.a. Captain Silvereye]], in that order.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: When he's given alcohol from Captain Howell, James collapses [[spoiler: long enough for Howell to take him as a sacrifice to Cannibal Island.]] Upon waking up, he lampshades it by saying "This is why I prefer tea."
* CannibalClan: [[spoiler: Averted. "Cannibal Island" is actually the home of a band of lady pirates who use the name and some artful masks to keep people - especially men - from finding their camp.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: [=DeSilver=] makes a deal with a voodoo priest to get even with his brother, at the price of his soul. His primary motivation in the game is weaseling his way out of his end of this contract.]]

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* GhostPirate: [[spoiler: Captain Silvereye.]]

* MacGuffinDeliveryService: [[spoiler: James Rover inadvertently leading [=DeSilver=] to the pirate booty, and to Clara.]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle: [[spoiler: they don't tell you, but the "lure beast" spell is the "repel beast" spell in reverse.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: a hat is enough to fool Captain Howell's crew to mistake you as Davy, one of their own. [[spoiler: Later subverted when you meet the actual Davy: he looks and dresses just like you!]]

* SlapSlapKiss: Captain Howell and Captain Butcher. [[spoiler: They get married in the end.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After meeting back up with Captain Howell, you reluctantly agree to be his personal chef in order to pay your debt to DeSilver. His crew take turns saying the old chef was such a terrible cook that he "couldn't tell an egg from his eye, a biscuit from his bum, a banana from his..." before James cuts him off.

[[caption-width-right:300:Sea Dogs.]]

Two things are notable about this modest but competent PointAndClick adventure, designed by Andrew Goulding as the first release of Brawsome Games: first, it brings back the "score" meter of old {{Sierra}} titles (but without the sadism associated with Sierra). Second, the game has a few [[FakeLongevity tricks to make you play through it more than once]].

* CollectionSidequest -- three: crackers (for unlocking concept art); pieces of eight (for unlocking music), and flags (for unlocking pirate biographies). These items can be LostForever, lots of {{Backtracking}} is sometimes required, and in at least one case can only be discovered in a rather counter-intuitive manner.

** The game cannot be saved manually, but saves itself automatically every time you leave a scene, overwriting the previous save. This ensures that stuff lost are really LostForever -- a bane to 100% completists.

* LostForever: Any collectibles left behind when you move onto a new area, but even more annoyingly, a Piece of Eight [[GuideDangit can only be acquired by following one specific, non-obvious strand of non-repeating dialogue.]]

* OhCrap: James used the heat iron spell along with some gun powder and an iron sword to open a chasm...but he realizes too late that he's a little TOO CLOSE to the focus of the blast!
** Fortunately, he's alive...but the explosion was a bit too loud.

* PirateBooty

* PungeonMaster: James Rover.
* SiblingTriangle: [[spoiler: in the backstory of Governor [=DeSilver=] and Captain Silvereye.]]

* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: James' dad.]]

* CantHoldHisLiquor: When he's given alcohol from Captain Howell, he collapses [[spoiler: long enough for Howell to take him as a sacrifice to Cannibal Island.]] when James wakes up, he lampshades it by saying "This is why I prefer tea."

* ICantUseTheseThingsTogether: James's monologues are often lampshaded, both by himself and by other characters.

** Fortunately, he's alive...but the explosion was a [[{{Understatement}} bit too loud.]]

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[[caption-width:300:Sea Dogs]]

Ever since ''MonkeyIsland'', pirates and {{Adventure Game}}s go together like vampires and teenage-girl fiction. Just months after ''VideoGame/GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland'', we have yet another PointAndClick games with a pirate theme -- but this time, the scurvy dogs really have bite.

* {{Expy}}: Rover is too close in character to [[MonkeyIsland Guybrush Threepwood]] for comfort: he is apt to pestering people with pleas, for example.

Ever since ''MonkeyIsland'', pirates and {{Adventure Game}}s go together like vampires and teenage-girl fiction. Just months after ''GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland'', we have yet another PointAndClick games with a pirate theme -- but this time, the scurvy dogs really have bite.

** Fortunately, he's alive...but the explosion was a [[Understatement bit too loud.]]

* TheUriahGambit: In the backstory, Governor [=DeSilver=] [[CainAndAbel tries to get rid of his brother]] Alexander (Captain Silvereye) by ordering him to fight a [[AWorldWidePunomenon Spaniel Galleon]], and he threw in some UnfriendlyFire just in case.

* AWorldWidePunomenon: Count up all the dog-related puns you can find in this game. Go ahead, count 'em. Don't make a drinking game out of it, though, or you'll make yourself very sick.

* VideogameObjectives: The status bar at the top of the screen is constantly updated, not only with James' current objective, but with whatever's going on, period - usually a bizarre nonsense objective during a cutscene, or James' current (and frequently hilarious) thoughts.