Let's Play: Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist - Part 1 - Character tropes all the way down

Channel:

Corey Dutson

Subscribers:

632

Published on July 8, 2021 4:00:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzkxFf7F3o

Game:

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 2:27:05

30 views

0

Part 1 of my playthrough of Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist.

Let me open with: This game was made in the 90s and the character stereotypes are, at points, problematic. I'm not shocked given when it was made, but I just wanna put that out there right now.

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a game set in the Wild West of the late 1800s. You (Freddy) are the towns local pharmacist, and apparently its eventual savior. Your primary goal is to agonizingly fill prescriptions for the local townsfolk and talk in a weirdly dramatic stilt. Then once things get weird, you also take it upon yourself to save the day, which makes sense because this is an adventure game and we need some sort of story.

The game itself plays well enough (though setup got a little weird with OBS) though it is full of moon logic and P&C rule-breaking puzzle solutions that I shake a stern finger at. I'm playing through the voice-acted version of the game, which apparently means I'm missing out on a lot of text-based hints and clues, which is unfortunate given how obtuse some of the puzzle solutions are.

Then there's the pharma portion of the game, wherein you have to look up an actual recipe in an actual manual (in my case a PDF) and concoct compounds for the locals. It's an exercise in tedium, to say the least. Actions have to be performed in order lest it simply not work. It's... not great, but it's a gimmick that we're going to keep coming back to because we are, indeed, a pharmacist.

——————————————
Watch me struggle live: https://twitch.tv/cdutson
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdutson
Join my discord to catch more: https://discord.gg/u3w2HJ796W

Other Statistics