First of all, let’s get one thing straight: this game has nothing to do with Star Wars character Chewbacca (“Chewie”). In fact, this game has nothing to do with Star Wars at all. If you go into this thinking that this is a Star Wars adventure game, you will be disappointed.
Now that that is out of the way, on to the review!
Chewy: Esc from F5 is a “point and click” adventure game released in 1995 (ahhh… the 90s, when people still made adventure games).
If you’ve ever played games like King’s Quest, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Sam and Max, or The Dig, then you pretty much know what to expect here. Unfortunately, Chewy: Esc from F5 isn’t quite as good as any of those games I just listed. That’s not to say that it’s not a good game that is worth a play through. However, if you have not played through any of those games or franchises that I just mentioned - definitely play those first.
OK, so here’s the story on the story (or whatever). In Chewy: Esc from F5 you play as the title character, Chewy, a weird looking little pink alien thing. The game starts
off with you trying to find a way to break out of this space station called “F5” (thus the witty game title). The reason that you have to break out is because you were captured by the evil Borkians while you and your friend Clint (why his name is Clint, I’ll never know) were attempting to steal something called the Red Glum from the Borkians. This Red Glum was located on the space station F5 and was going to be used by the Borkians as part as their evil plan to take over the universe… or something like that, you know, bad guy stuff. Well, anyway, you (Chewy) gets captured and Clint manages to escape, only to crash land on the planet Earth. So that’s where the game begins – with you needing to escape and rescue your friend Clint.
As far as game play, I thought it was pretty standard – nothing really stood out to me. The puzzles were pretty good and none of them were too frustrating. They were mostly “find the object that does something here so that you can move on” type puzzles.
The cartoon-style graphics were, in my opinion, the best part of the game and the quality made it much more enjoyable as a whole. The sound effects were pretty good too, but some of the voices annoyed me just a little.
I played this game when I was about 12 or 13 and don’t really remember anything objectionable in it, so I think it would be a game you could play with your kids.
Overall, I would say 7.7/10.
