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Short, but fun, and a funny game too!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Floigan Brothers is a game that you can't take too seriously or you're just not going to enjoy it. It's hardly anything more than an interactive cartoon and taken that way, it certainly worked for me. The story is mostly ludicrous, the game play is short, and the area of play is small, but still, I enjoyed this game.

In the game, you control Hoigle, who must help his brother Moigle gather the seven parts he needs to complete a secret device he is building in the garage. During the game, you must have Moigle help you access areas that are inaccessible by doing different things, including making him happy, angry, sad, and by playing games with him.

The games you play with Moigle get somewhat repetitive after a while and can slow the game play down. I recommend teaching him to play catch as soon as possible since it's one of the quicker games and pays one of the most amount of points, which Hoigle needs to accumulate to teach Moigle different things. The different games you play with Moigle are High Five, Tag, Hide And Seek, Catch, and the Running Game. The Running Game you can't learn until late in the game and I've never been able to beat Moigle at it, although there must be a way to do so. I guess I just can't figure it out.

As you interact with different things in the junkyard, you'll be able to teach Moigle more skills, although there is one thing I haven't been able to teach him. That's what keeps drawing me back into the game, trying to accomplish the tasks that I haven't been able to solve yet, although I've already beaten the game. Try it for yourself, if you like cartoons, I think you'll like this too. Just don't pay too much for this game, its replay value is fairly low and it shouldn't take much more than six hours or so to beat it. Still though, you should enjoy those six hours.

It just *is*

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The long and short of it all: At [the price] it's a steal. That is, they're stealing from you. Don't buy it yet.
Floigan Bros. was announced way back in the day - one of the original announced titles for the DC. It's been in development hell for *years*, and it suffers from a few serious gameplay issues, but more damningly, a complete lack of focus.

The game plot itself is relatively simple. You play as Hoigle Floigan, and your dopey brother Moigle tags along. Moigle is amusing in a very mentally-retarded or idiot-savant kind of way, if you find that sort of thing funny. If you don't, it's probably borderline offensive. Moigle's stupid, Hoigle's too short and weak to be useful.

Moigle needs seven parts to create his little seekrit project, and to get them, he's going to need Hoigle's help. The Brothers own a junkyard, and to screw things up even further, there's an evil guy who wants control of the junkyard, so he throws his cat henchmen down from his blimp to take over. There's no visible motivation for *why* this Baron Malodorous fellow wants the junkyard, he just does. Why are his minions cats? They just are.

"It just *is*," might as well be a slogan for this game. Things are arbitrary in a way that's really... bizarre. First of all, you'd think, when you're first shown the seven parts that you need (things like a chimney stack, an engine, a fan, etc.) that these are common things to find in a junkyard. So context-relevant puzzles would seem to make sense. No such luck. You find a fan by blowing up a cat, and you find the chimney stack by having a huge plant barf it up for you. Completely incoherent, illogical solutions to puzzles do not a fun game make. Why is the chimney stack there? It just *is*.

The whole game so far is like this. The design of the gameplay is simply no fun, the AI for the characters is entertaining for about five minutes, the voice samples get old quick, and the game itself, while pretty, is like talking to the Mona Lisa. It may look good, but it's not saying much.

For $5, I'd say "pick it up." If you're a completist, you'll have to have it. If you're curious about what they've done with it, it might be worth the [current price] to sate your curiosity. But I was *really* curious, and I feel pretty ripped off.

People were harshing on EGM for giving this game low, low, low scores, but in all honesty, I find a 1.5/10 almost entirely justified. How this scored 8.5 on IGN is totally beyond me, and even after reading their review, it seems difficult to tell what about the game it was that the reviewer even liked.

***A great game that will catch your attention***

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great.
I bought it for my three year old son and he loved it.
The graphics are excellent.
It's like playing a cartoon or the Sundays funnies.
It even got me hooked. You can't help but fall in love with the two main charcters, Hoigle and Moigle.
The game has 13 junkyard areas and dozens of minigames. The game also teaches team work so if your looking for a family game you found it in Flogian Brothers.

Short...but oh so sweet....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

With amazing graphics, original gameplay, and plenty of humor to have you busting at the seams, the seamingly only downside to this game is how unfortunatley short it is. But, if you are up for a great game, and in a humourous mood, this game is for you.

It May Be Fun, But I STILL Think It Should Have Been Longer!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Floigan Brothers: Episode 1 is was strange, weird, funny, clever, and brillient game. I don't know how many times I broke out laughing, but it was quite a few times(Those movie spoofs don't hurt either). I was having fun, untill after about an hour (Mabye a little more) I had beaten it! ...This game was shorter then The Bouncer (And in case you didn't know, that games about 90 minutes long)! I still recomend it, just don't be expecting this to keep you busy for the week because it won't (Unless you take your VERY sweet time in compleating this!).

Great but short in content

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well firstly I would like to say that this is a great game but it could have been greater if it hadn't been so short.I'm noticing in some cases that when Sega comes up with great games,those games fall short in content.The likes of crazy taxi,18wheeler,coaster works and this game can be cited as examples in that context.I beat this game in a little over 2 hrs
This game is about two brothers,moigle and hoigle.you control hoigle.moigle wants to build a secret project and for that he needs your help to find seven items.As you find the items,you also get the chance to play fun games with moigle like high five,hide&seek etc. or teach moigle new skills.Graphically this game is really beautiful.the cartoon animations are wonderful,utilizing DC's 128bit power.voice acting of both the brothers is top notch,music is good.and what to say about the humor?it's the most humorous game i've played.plenty of humorous stuff to make you laugh.
The only letdown is the content,which is short.So if you don't have problems with short games,go ahead and buy one of the most visually appealing and hilarious games to come to dreamcast.

The Crazy Floigan Brothers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Floigan Bros. is a pretty cool game for Dreamcast, but it was very very short. It can be beaten in a day or less. There's alot of camera problems too. It's still a good game though. The voice overs are great, and the characters are funny. The game will remind you of an old Saturday morning cartoon. It's a good game to play when you bored or just wanna have fun.

Sweet!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you can get it for less than 15 bucks....NAB it!!

This game will give you HOURS of fun and it's a great replay game.

Good for all ages too!!!

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