Our hero’s unlikely saviour is Flux Wildly (not to be confused with the flux capacitor), a toon familiar to Drew who, it turns out, created Flux years ago as part of his bygone dream to design a cartoon series of his own. This is the final straw for Drew who, whether by reason of madness or some supernatural force, finds himself sucked into a partially cute, entirely deranged cartoon world.īefore Drew can even comprehend his predicament, he is saved in the nick of time from a flying machine that is blasting everything with evil energy. The burnt-out Blanc makes it to his meeting late, only to be rebuked and asked to design a whole cast of new critters for the show by the following morning. To make matters worse, he is suffering artist’s block (as his name would imply) and isn’t sleeping properly, often falling asleep on the job. The studio has created a successful children’s cartoon called “The Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun Show” but Drew despises it and is feeling overworked and overstressed.
Add to that the excellent zany artwork and cartoon animation blended with FMV, and you have a gem of a game that remains one of best adventures ever made.Īs Toonstruck takes off, we see artist Drew Blanc (Lloyd) asleep on the job and running late for a meeting with his boss (played by Ben Stein), the head of a TV animation company. The performances are exceptional, delivering witty dialogue that will keep you laughing throughout the entire tale. The cast is immediately recognizable, made up of big-name talent highlighted by Christopher Lloyd as the protagonist. Re-released digitally nearly two decades after its initial launch, the 1996 point-and-click classic Toonstruck broke game conventions at the time by catapulting Drew Blanc, a fictional illustrator, into a whacky Looney Tunes-style world.