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October 31, 2009

Avenue Flo

Welcome to Avenue Flo, a new adventure game from the developers of Diner Dash series. Everyone knows that Flo is one active gal with a talent for restaurant management and waitressing. However, this time she has no time for management madness or fetching burgers and drinks. Instead, Avenue Flo features an entertaining click and point game play and a gripping storyline.

 

Avenue Flo gameOne of the more amusing points of Avenue Flo game is the meeting of many familiar characters from other games like Wedding Dash’s Quinn, and Fitness Dash’s Jo who runs Diner Town Fitness Center.

After the musical opening cut scene where Flo sings a fun karaoke-like song, you find yourself in Diner Town. Quinn busily works on planning for the biggest wedding of the year, but dramatic events unfold before your eyes. It looks like someone wants to prevent the wedding from happening. Everything is a disaster with only five hours before the big event. Flo steps in to help Quinn to ensure the wedding happens.

If you’ve played Emerald City: Confidential, Avenue Flo will feel familiar. The click and point adventure game contains fun tasks and puzzles that integrate well with the plot. You travel all over Diner Town, interact with characters, collect items for later use to solve puzzles and play challenging mini-games.

Avenue Flo holds a variety of activities. Your “save the wedding” tasks include finding the bride’s poodle Snookums, repairing the wedding dress, arranging a new bouquet, looking for the missing wedding rings, collecting the escaped butterflies in every outdoor location and more.

 

Avenue Flo gameIn general, you need to explore three Diner Town neighborhoods. You get around the neighborhoods by riding subway. Every neighborhood has a subway station and, like in real life, you need a token to take the subway. Collect plastic bottles and then recycle 15 for one token. Don’t worry, Diner Town streets are full of empty bottles.

The neighborhoods all have a map, which help you see what places you’ve visited. You can also access a list anytime to see your current open tasks.

Avenue Flo game contains a nice selection of original mini-games. You will never get bored because they’re tightly bound to the plot. Hidden object makes up only a small part of the game play, but you’ll still need to find beads, paper in a maze or interactive items.

Other mini-game and puzzles consist of creating bead patterns for the wedding dress, arranging clothes for the shop window, moving food around kitchen to get the needed ingredients for the cake, putting together bouquets or copying the chicken songs. The games don’t have a time limit, but you can’t skip them. This can be rather frustrating in case you don’t like a mini-game.

The pleasing story contains surprises making Avenue Flo a very polished game with bright cartoonish graphics, excellent voice-acting and atmospheric game play.
Review from Awem studio

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