Frog Fractions

Frog Fraction's is one of the best games I have played this year. Admittedly we are only 6 days in and nothing has actually been released but if we can have The Walking Dead to be GOTY why not a flash game? Ok, that might be taking it a little too far but truly this game is amazing. Before we start here is the link.

WARNING: MASSIVE SPOILERS INBOUND - (Like really just go and play the game yourself, it is not that long ffs and much more entertaining than my ramblings)

The game is pretty simple. You are frog who has to protect your fruit from the bugs that are trying to eat them. It all seems pretty simple, each bug you eat shows a fraction for a few seconds. A couple of things should strike you as odd about now. The first thing is that frogs don't eat fruit. In fact they don't really need an excuse to eat bugs, it's kind of in their job description. It was about this time I started to justify to myself that the frog, hence forth known to me as Smaug, did not actually NEED the fruit he just did not want these bug bastards to get any of it. So he sits there in the centre of his domain ready to defend his horde of fruit.

Your first shop screen seems like pretty standard fare. Upgrade your gold fruit so it is harder to eat. Ride around on a turtle friend aww that is pretty cure. Give your frog a cybernetic brain. Wait, what?! Warp Drive? A Dragon you can ride about on. It is about this time you start to feel all superior thinking "gah struggling to be original so they just stupid". 

So you continue on, gaining these increasingly random upgrades for little Smaug here and things on screen start to get a little more hectic. (You should start getting hints the game might be more than it seems when quite randomly "Frog Fractions teaches typing" happens and you start shooting lasers out of your eyes tbh). There is a definite high point when you get your dragon and things start getting a little bit out of control. 

And that's it. It is impossible to get the warp drive, those pesky internet people! You have been tricked into playing a pretty random game for ten minutes I am just going to give up now... WAIT wtf underwater fruit horde! YOU ARE SMAUG FLYING A DRAGON TO YOUR SUPER HORDE OF FRUIT-Y GOODNESS!. And you can now afford the Warp Drive? (I am not sure if the warp drive fits into your dragon or you as a frog or is just some object that you press. All three deserve detailed fan fiction. Perhaps slash.)

This is when things get a little... interesting. 

So once you have gotten your vertical scroller on it is time to go to bug mars and take a citizenship test. 

This review ends now. Because no one is reading to this point and not already playing the game. I can promise you that it only gets weirder from this point forwards. From a leisurely swim to the backing of a weird story about gentleman's boxing to a Zork style text adventure that will make you wish for simpler times when games were just that awesome. Go play it.