I recently rediscovered a site that I had found about a year or two ago. It is a German based site called Paraplusch: Psychiatry for abused Cuddlytoys. The main screen has two paths: an online shop and an attached flash game.
I mainly want to focus on the flash game, as the online shop has little-to-no flash and its main focus is to give people a means to buy the toys featured in the flash. The game is called Die Anstalt, or when translated, "The Asylum."
After choosing your language of choice and a brief, skippable intro, you play a doctor and your goal is to cure all your troubled toy patients. Currently, there are six toys to cure, though I believe they add a patient when they make a new toy for the online shop. Each toy has a different disorder and some are easier to cure than others.
Upon choosing a toy, you are given a variety of treatments to choose from. Depending on what you choose, you can either make progress in curing the patient...or you potentially make things much, much worse. Sometimes, the treatment you pick doesn't change anything at all. It all depends on the patient, for different disorders call for different treatments.
I found this to be a very enjoyable game. The animation is cute, simple and, for the most part, very smooth and very effective when it needs to be. I also enjoy the concept of game and the fact that it gives further depth and backstory to what is basically a quirky toyline.
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