[PC] Mystery Legends: Beauty and the Beast (2011)

How:
Read about it possibly on Adventuregamers.com forums, tried the demo and enjoyed it immediately (purchased from BigFishGames).
Pros:
- Excellent voice acting
- Superb graphics and animations, totally on another level with respect to any other HOG/light adventure I've ever played
- Nice puzzles and hidden object scenes
- Some light arcade sequences (e.g. playing darts)
- Backtracking is not painful at all
- Overall very enjoyable light adventuring with well integrated hidden object elements
Cons:
- Some hidden object scenes are used many times

[PC] Dark Parables: Rise of the Snow Queen (2011)

How:
Played the demo from BigFishGames after reading about it somewhere (possibly just browsing through the website after playing some Mystery Case Files episode).
Pros:
- Very nice in-game animations
- Voice acting
- Abundance of cut-scenes
- Generally better graphic quality with respect to previous episodes
- Story is somewhat interesting and connecting to previous episodes
Cons:
- Quality of cut-scenes is very inconsistent and generally mediocre
- Very similar to previous episodes of the series, with the usual arbitrary collection of medallions, shields and goblets to collect, statues to activate, and doors to open
- Graphics quality feels heterogeneous (e.g. some items are evidently re-painted photos, some characters are cartoony while others are more realistic)
- The children sound way too mature for their age (having a little child scream "Help, detective!" is quite unnatural)
- Very little variety in puzzles
- Voice-overs,  although abundant, are generally mediocre

[PC] Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince (2011)

How:
Tried the demo and liked it, bought it right away on BigFishGames.com, together with other two episodes.
Pros:
- Neat graphics
- Good pace and well integrated cutscenes
Cons:
- Heavy on the HOG side
- Overabundance of inventory items and collectables (jars, tiaras, potions, etc)
- A lot of backtracking
- Boring and repetitive music

[PC] Dark Parables: Curse of Briar Rose (2010)

How:
Tried the demo of the second episode on BigFishGames website, liked it and bought the whole series.
Pros:
- Beautiful graphics, fitting music
- Some amount of non-linearity
Cons:
- Adventuring elements are limited to very repetitive inventory puzzles, the rest is pure HOG
- Shallow storytelling
- Lots of backtracking
- The diary gives away some puzzles
- The puzzles per se are trivial, one specific puzzle appears at least three times (place colored balls on colored tile)
- Only a few events, no character interaction (starts with the princess appearing, to never see her again) 

[PC] Tales of Monkey Island - Episodes 1-5 (2009)

Pros:
- Very funny and likable
- Excellent dubbing
- Adventurous, intriguing story
- Excellent animations, facial expressions do their damn work
- Beautifully described characters
- Excellent music (as always)
- Excellent graphics and landscapes (as always)
- A plot full of twists, always keeps you wanting for more
Cons:
- Puzzles are very simple, although not trivial nor silly
- The movement system is incredibly unpractical and frustrating
- Some glitches, requires a good amount of computational resources to run fluently
- Too many recipe-like and map-like puzzles, too much arcade in the final segment

[PC] Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove (2009)

Pro:
- Belle atmosfere
- Ottima grafica
- Ottima musica ed effetti sonori
- Molto avvincente e piuttosto longevo
- Buon uso di FMV sia ingame che nelle scene di intermezzo
- Enigmi non banalissimi e mai frustranti
- Le parti di hidden objects non sono invadenti e hanno un loro perché
Contro:
- Storia già sentita
- Finale un po' brusco
- Recitazione altalenante che a volte lascia un po' a desiderare
- A volte troppo semplice, il gioco dà troppi aiuti
- A volte ci si ritrova a rivisitare a caso le stesse location per cercare nuovi oggetti

[PC] The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)

Pro:
- Divertente, rilassante e molto longevo
- Enigmi molto belli e ben congegnati
- Musiche stupende
- Dialoghi divertenti come sempre
- Doppiaggio ottimo
- Cut-scene ottimamente realizzate, così anche le animazioni e le ambientazioni
Contro:
- C'è di nuovo una prova di spada e di cannoni, che può annoiare (anche se si può scegliere di saltarla)
- La grafica molto cartoonesca rovina un pò il mood originale (LeChuck è addirittura simpatico)