Gobliiins

Gobliiins is a puzzle adventure video game series, consisting of five entries, released by Coktel Vision (and later Sierra On-Line) for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh, iOS and Windows platforms.

The visual look of the series and its characters were created by French artist Pierre Gilhodes, whose style was used in another game from Coktel Vision: Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth.

In essence, the player must find the solution to each area (or level), consisting of one or more screens, in order to progress to the next.

The platinum edition of Gobliiins 4 contains all previous titles with a modification of ScummVM for newer Windows systems.

All older games on the DVD were also translated from the original English and French language into Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Czech and Hungarian.

The first goblin, Asgard (BoBo in the US release), is a warrior who is more brawn than brain, and whose skill is punching, causing various things to break or fall over.

The second goblin, Ignatius (US: Hooter), is a magician who can "zap" things with magic with a wide variety of usually unexpected effects, which include objects moving, growing, or coming alive.

[8] In Gobliins 2 the player controls two characters: Fingus (who is well-mannered, intelligent, and shy) and Winkle (who is strong, obnoxious, but dimwitted).

[9] Gobliins 2 received generally good reviews, with most game magazines giving it a rating of between 70% and 90%,[10][11][12] though CU Amiga scored it at just 40%.

[13] Computer Gaming World in August 1993 praised its "challenging puzzles, sharp-witted entertainment, and enhanced ease of use".

Blount is also bitten by a wolf early in the game and, after escaping from the afterlife, must contend with semi-frequent metamorphoses into a super-strong but uncouth werewolf alter ego.

The game was designed by Pierre Gilhodes and Muriel Tramis, developed by Société Pollene and produced by the Russian company Snowball Studios.

[28][29][30] It features the original three goblins from the first episode - Oups,[a] Asgard and Ignatius - on a mission to find out the source of a mysterious magic ray that turns people in to anthropomorphic potatoes.