The zoo itself is a Disney’s Animal Kingdom style world where dirt-paved roads run alongside seemingly vast immersive landscapes split between a jungle, savannah and arctic section. Just about every character in the game can be photographed, even the plot-inessential ones. An opening plaza offers Putt-Putt the option to grab concessions, which he can use as items later on, and a camera, which he can use to photograph the many animals and characters throughout the zoo. Putt-Putt, ever the good deed doer, tells the big-chinned Australian vehicle that he’d be happy to help.Īfter pressing a button to page himself in, Putt-Putt’s adventure takes place entirely within the zoo. Baldini to the new zookeeper Outback Al, Putt-Putt learns that the zoo’s opening is in crisis. After delivering some Zoo Chow for the returning Mr. The story begins with Putt-Putt learning about the opening of the Cartown Zoo. It might be the most compact game in the series, again offering optional minigames and other forms of padding in place of offering more challenging puzzles. The open-endedness of the first game and the deep weirdness of the second are in Putt-Putt’s rearview mirror. The music ranges from percussion and animal sounds to a couple vocal tracks, including “Welcome To The Zoo”, the game’s cute theme song.Īll these aesthetic elements lead up to a game that streamlines the adventure genre even further than its predecessors. While heavily compressed, it still sounds much nicer than the dinky midis of its predecessors. The redbook audio in the game was partially recorded live. Putt-Putt remains a constantly-smiling car without much of a personality, but the redesign makes him a lot more likeable nonetheless, and the same goes for Pep, who is now rather cute.Īlong with the visuals, Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo also offers a big step-up in audio quality for the series, perhaps owing the obsolescence of the floppy disk format. Jacob Ellefson, Putt-Putt’s child voice actor, seems to have aged between the past two games, making the character sound more grade school than pre-school age. He seems like he’s also been aged up a bit. Putt-Putt’s eyes have become more vertical, and his shape is more defined, with many shots showing him from a variety of angles compared to the flatter looking prequels. Putt-Putt and his dog Pep have been redesigned, and have many frames of animation drawn only for specific screens and shots. This visual change is the most immediately noticeable element of Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo. In 1995, these advancements were applied to the Putt-Putt series, resulting in a much prettier adventure game, if not one much more complicated. Besides introducing a new franchise, that game also introduced higher quality paper-based animation. Between Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon and Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, Humongous Entertainment released Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds.
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