Voodoo Kid is aimed at the younger gamer - the puzzles are pretty easy, and a hint sheet is supplied, which lists the correct uses for objects - so it's unlikely that even Little Johnny will be stuck for too long. The butler is a little friendlier, offering helpful advice to you, and occasionally getting stuck behind doors. Perhaps it lost something in translation. Hmm - it doesn't have quite the same ring as 'We'll tear your soul apart'. A typical taunt is 'Let's eat his spirit. The Baron is typically nasty, cropping up every now again to taunt you. Aside from the kid, who you play, the main characters in the game are the Baron himself, and his butler. It should, because Voodoo Kid is a point and click adventure in the Monkey Island mould - in fact, the whole zombie pirate scenario also crops up in Monkey Island. But you can't just wander up to him and kick his decomposing head in - you have to make your way upwards from the bottom of the ship, solving various puzzles as you go along. And that's not generally a good thing, so it's up to you to defeat him and free the lost souls he has ensnared. He's also turned the entire crew of his ship into zombies, and is sailing the ship straight towards Hell. The Baron is a particularly unfriendly bloke, with a strangely tubular head, and a noticeable lack of hair. He falls asleep, and wakes up on a possessed pirate ship, under the command of the evil Baron Saturday. The hero of Infogrames' Voodoo Kid makes just such a mistake, reading aloud a passage from a pirate book he finds. Reciting a single arcane word from one such tome is effectively inviting every demon in the netherworlds to come and have a go if they think they're hard enough. They're always comprehensive guides to summoning up nightmarish creatures and terrors from beyond the grave. Because in the movies, old books are never old copies of 'The Famous Five die horribly', or 'Spot the Dog' . The laws of horror require that any character, upon finding a dusty book, not only read the book, but read it out loud - clearly enunciating every single demon-summoning word. But your average horror movie character wouldn't stop at that. Would you read it? I would - just for curiosity's sake, you understand. Supposing that one day, perhaps while cleaning out your attic, or looking around a bookstore, you came across a dusty, unusually bound book, filled with barely readable, almost mystical writing - perhaps with an skull motif on the cover.
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