Hugo III: Jungle of Doom!

Hugo III: Jungle of Doom! is an adventure puzzle game developed and published by David Gray and released in 1992 as the third game in the Hugo series.

I played this game right shortly after playing Hugo II: Whodunit?, most likely from the same shareware package as the second game. I certainly appreciated the improved artwork, but found the game to be just as dated at the previous titles in the trilogy. I got a little over half-way through the game in my first attempts, but finally hunkered down to play it in earnest and beat it on 2018-06-25.

Status

I do not own the game, but I have beaten it with a full score.

Review

• Overall: 3/10
• Best Version: DOS

Review

Good

• The artwork is certainly better in this game, but still quite dated for the time (King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder was released the same year).

Bad

• The game's music and sound effects are very dated and not that great even for the 80s.
• A lot of the scenery that should be animated is not.
• The game doesn't seem to know it's set in South America; there are African elephants, hyenas, and Zulu shields.
• The game does have a few guess-the-verb style problems especially on the bridge and the crystal ball.
• The book is stupidly hidden.

Ugly

• The game is too short for an adventure game. It's even shorter than the first Hugo game!

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/hugo-iii-jungle-of-doom - MobyGames.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_III,_Jungle_of_Doom! - Wikipedia.
• dgray.com/hwpage.htm - Official page.