The Ballad of Ketinetto 1.0

Warning: You need to have a special piece of software to run this game. You can find the special software right here. Then, you'll need to follow the instructions in the review to play the game.

Point and click games used to be all the craze until around the 2010s. Now, they're usually relegated to mid-size productions or simple indie titles. The genre also proved incredibly popular among flash game creators, due to the relatively simple planning and programming that goes into such a game. One creator that stood out for their high production quality is Esklavos. Let's look at one of their series, The Ballad of Ketinetto.

To play The Ballad of Ketinetto, you have to unzip all the files into the folder you extracted the FPSoftware files to. Then, navigate to FPSoftware -> Basilisk-Portable -> Basilisk-Portable.exe. Afterward, drag the HTML onto the Basilisk browser.

This is an episodic series revolving around the adventures of a rogue named Ketinetto. In this entry, Ketinetto finds himself being thrown into a brig after he scams a pirate crew out of their money. You need to help him escape from the crew.

The production value is quite high. Despite the cutscenes being fairly static, there are occasionally little touches of detail that really add to the experience, such as Ketinetto's constant quips that really makes him likable.

All in all, The Ballad of Ketinetto is a fantastic start to the series and will introduce you to a ton of different concepts that the future chapters will build on.