The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (video game) side-view, and are controlled by means of finger swipes on the touchscreen. The game also incorporates stealth levels and quick time events. The console versions of the game have a slightly different plot than the iOS, Android and Symbian^3 versions. A sea plane carrying Tintin (voiced by Adam Howden), Captain Haddock (Lewis Macleod), and Tintin's dog Snowy is flying through a thunderstorm when it is hit by lightning and crash lands in a desert, knocking all three unconscious. The game then flashbacks to the previous day, where Tintin and Snowy are looking around a market. Tintin purchases a model ship,
Tintin (character) been written by any Belgian in my situation. They are not very intelligent, I know, and do me no honour: they are 'Belgian' books." Peeters deemed the early Tintin to be "a Sartre-esque character", an "existentialist before the term had been coined", having "no surname, no family, hardly anything of a face, and the mere semblance of a career." Ultimately, he deemed him nothing but a "narrative vehicle" for the story, being an otherwise incoherent character. The image of Tintin—a round-faced young man running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognisable visual icons