So Blonde

Nintendo console exclusive

So Blonde is a classic 3rd person point & click adventure where the player takes the role of young and cute Sunny Blonde, who survives a ship catastrophe and awakes at a beautiful beach – only to find out that she has travelled to a time when pirates ruled the Caribbean Sea. She has to use all her charm and wit to find back into her own time. The game is full of humoristic allusions not only to classic adventures, but also to Sunny being a naïve blonde girl thrown into an environment that is too rough for her manicured nails and make up lifestyle. So Blonde is a game that will attract all kinds of players from all ages, female and male, who will not be able to resist Sunny’s irresistible charm.

Released: 26 September 2008
Platforms: Nintendo DS Wii Windows
Genres: Adventure Point-and-click adventure Puzzle
Developers: Wizarbox
Publishers: Eidos Interactive
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Engine: Ogre3d
Country: France
Age ratings: PEGI 12

About

So Blonde, subtitled Lost in the Caribbean in Spanish and Blonde in Trouble in Russian and Polish, is a point-and-click adventure game released for Windows in 2008. Two spin-off games have been released: So Blonde: Back to the Island in 2010 and Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle in 2012.

Keywords

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female protagonist
bird
easter egg
skeletons
castaway
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Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

Sunny Blonde is a 17-year-old who has been spoiled by her rich parents. On a cruise with her parents who are celebrating their wedding anniversary, the ship is struck by lightning, and she is knocked overboard.

She finds herself stranded on a beach of a remote “Forgotten Island” in the Caribbean Sea.

Development

So Blonde was announced to the public on March 2, 2007 and had taken 14 months of development by the time of release. The game makes use of the OGRE engine. The game was released in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on March 14, 2008 by DTP Entertainment under the "Anaconda" publishing label. It was then released three months later in France on June 13. Eidos Interactive released the game in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2008.

Reception

Shortly before the release of So Blonde, the script writer of the game, Steve Ince, was nominated for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain 2008 Awards. His script for the PC Adventure game So Blonde was shortlisted in the category "Best Video game Script".

So Blonde garnered generally mixed reviews, and holds an average of 73% on review aggregator site GameRankings.