The Whispered World is populated with other characters, both helpful and not. Talking rocks, grumpy brothers, messengers on secret missions, forgetful grandfathers, mystical witches and more. They’re all individually voiced giving them life and personality. Sure some of them are far more verbose than I would like, but you can click past a lot of what they have to say when you need to. That helps speed the game up from time to time. Generally, you won’t miss any vital info and if you do you can still get it by talking to them again.

In the game you’ve also got your trusty caterpillar Spot. Spot is an amazing creature as he can change into several forms that will help you solve some of the puzzles. Often when you get stuck you might just have to pick him up and test him against some things. When I first saw the game they made much about him but in the final game he seems like a minor character really. He’s not used in as many puzzles as I had expected, but it’s still interesting.

In between the chapters in the game are some excellent animated cut scenes which help push the story along and give you some further information. They’re fairly well done and add a nice touch to the title. After a lot of clicking and reading it’s nice to sit back for a few minutes and watch the story unfold.

Overall, The Whispered World, is a great example of the point-and-click adventure genre. It’s got great graphics, interesting puzzles a good long play time. Of course everyone will play through the game in different times as some puzzles and solutions will be quite obvious and some will not. That’s the whole point of the adventure.

The Whispering World is available at GamersGate.