[PS3] Life is Strange (2015)

How:
Found by randomly browsing PSN, bought the season pass on a sale.
Pros:
- Very good graphics contribute to setting the mood
- Very fitting, moving soundtrack
- Great storyline and characters
- Several choices make for a very nonlinear game
Cons:
- Gives a misleading sense of urgency that doesn't allow to calmly explore
- Impossible to backtrack and visit locations as desired
- Camera handling can be a bit tedious
- Some distracting graphical glitches
- Gameplay is often just limited to watching the story unfold

[PC] Her Story (2015)

How:
Got on GOG during a summer sale.
Note:
I uncovered two knock-code messages (BYDHANNAN and LOVEU), but couldn't use them anywhere.
Pros:
- Nice FMV based gameplay, quite immersive
- Interesting investigation
Cons:
- The actress is not very good
- Very difficult to uncover all the tapes, you end up with trying random words

[PC] Still Life 2 (2009)

How:
Got as a birthday present from my brother, via GOG.com.
Pros:
- Good voice-overs in general
- Fitting music
- Immersive and atmospheric
- Some nice puzzles
Cons:
- Several graphical glitches and game-breaking bugs
- Several audio glitches, such as music/voice imbalance during cut-scenes, broken loops, and broken fade-outs
- Speech can be interrupted only by pressing the space bar
- Camera movements are confusing and make you mess up constantly
- Some frustrating timed sequences
- Very repetitive setting

[PC] Still Life (2005)

How:
Played the demo when the game was out, bought it during Anuman Games sales at GOG.com.
Pros:
- All dialogues are recorded and readable through the in-game log
- Cool music and graphics, perfectly fitting the mood
- Several cinematic cut-scenes
- Nice story, keeps the interest high
- Excellent voice-overs
Cons:
- Dialogue trees are non-existent, you just keep clicking and the main character decides what to say
- Almost trivial puzzles, alternated with very obscure ones (e.g. the lockpicking puzzle)
- Very little items to interact with
- The investigative aspects are limited and concentrated in the initial part. What happened to the photo taking feature?

[PC] Primordia (2012)

How:
Heard about it on WadjetEye website, got during a Flash Deal at GOG.com.
Pros:
- Excellent voice overs, dialogues and writing
- Nice graphics
- Likable characters and humor
- Very good puzzles, some of which can be quite challenging
- Multiple puzzle solutions
- Fitting music (although very derivative of Blade Runner and the like)
- Cool atmosphere and deep in-game history
- An awesome audio scene in which you communicate via a radio transmitter with a voiceless robot named Gimbal
- A very engaging plot
- Some nice (although sparse) cut-scenes
Cons:
- Mediocre character animations
- Characters retain high resolution when they decrease in size, spoiling the old-school look & feel
- Awful final song (as usual with WadjetEye)

On our way to Metropol. Cut-scenes are nice, but short and rare.

[PC] Gemini Rue (2011)

How:
Got with the Bundle-in-a-Box Adventure bundle.
Pros:
- Excellent graphics and music, reminiscent of Beneath a Steel Sky and Blade Runner
- Rather lengthy (took me about one day from start to end)
- Very nice puzzles, including terminal-based investigation
- Memorable setting and writing
- Addictive gameplay, amazing story and turn of events
- Very likable characters
- A lot of cool scripted cutscenes
Cons:
- A few interface glitches
- The action sequences can be frustrating (very akin to the first Tex Murphy games)

Comparisons:

Tex Murphy: Mean Streets (1989)

Gemini Rue (2011)

[DS] Another Code: Two Memories (2005)

How:
Saw (didn't read) a positive review on Adventuregamers.com during a DS adventures lookout. Convinced by the fact it is developed by Cing, the same guys behind Hotel Dusk.
Pros:
- Gameplay is light and fun
- Very good presentation overall
- The game just feels good to play and always keeps you interested
Cons:
- Puzzles are too easy
- The plot can be confusing if enough attention is not paid
- Ending is quite anti-climatic and cliche somehow

[PC] Sinking Island (2007)

How:
Enjoyed Syberia and Syberia 2 by B.Sokal, heard in many places about this and actually only heard negative things. Eventually a friend bought it and I borrowed it.

Pros:
- Great graphics for the most part
- Nice (even though not superb) music
- Pleasant PDA mechanics
- Good plot
Cons:
- Difficulty relies on pixel hunting and speaking everytime with everyone about everything
- Frequent graphic glitches
- Awful dubbing (played the Italian version)
- Unskippable dialogues and random events (eating, phone calls) are a pain in the ass
- Few, uninspired puzzles
- Gameplay is a matter of running around the tower searching for clues and characters
- Ugly animations
- Found it very difficult to relate with the main character