[PC] Randal's Monday (2014)

How:
Got it on GOG during a winter sale.
Pros:
- Very smooth animations
- Some nice puzzles
Cons:
- Overly long and tedious, had to use a walkthrough to stop the pain
- Tries hard to be funny
- Unlikable characters
- Uninteresting plot
- Too much f*cking dialogue
- Some illogical puzzles
- Too many in-game citations to pop culture

The only fun part was to see Death in game.

[PS4] The Sexy Brutale (2017)

How:
Found while browsing the PSN store.

Pros:
- Stunning graphics
- Nice fitting music (although a bit repetitive at the beginning)
- Some nice puzzles
- Straightforward but refreshing gameplay
- Cool setting, mood and story

Cons:
- Some glitches and unresponsiveness when trying to do things quickly
- A bit too much backtracking
- Annoyingly slow character

[PC] Anna's Quest (2015)

How:
Got it from a GOG winter sale.
Pros:
- Very nice graphics and smooth in-game animations
- Some nice cutscenes
- Quite lengthy with nice variations and quite adventurous feeling
- Overall good puzzles
Cons:
- Annoyingly naive main character
- Very bad and unfair ending towards Winfriede
- Several open threads are never explained (e.g. who's the fox?)

The chapter with Winfriede as a playing character is actually better than the rest of the game. Also, this explores the connection between magic and science!

[PC] Goblins Quest 3 (1993)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga times, got on GOG with a Gobliiins pack.
Pros:
- Some quite challenging puzzles
- Fun and silly fantasy setting
- Quirky graphics, sounds and overall atmosphere
- Nice connection with the previous game
Cons:
- Some weird puzzles promote trial & error attitude
- The story is not easy to follow
- Game-breaking bugs at the chessboard level where you get items in the inventory before actually finding them

An amusing moment in which you play from inside a crystal ball.

Transformed into a werewolf!

[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] Thimbleweed Park (2017)

How:
Got from a friend's Humble Bundle.
Note:
I got the repair kit from the hotel room by exploiting a bug that would leave the door open, without having the ghost zap the electric lock.
Pros:
- Nice graphics
- Several references to classics in the form of puzzles (e.g. the sheet of paper flying away)
- High degree of (at least perceived) non-linearity
- Nice multi-character puzzle design
- Memorable clown character
- Too many red herrings
- Nice puzzles
Cons:
- Music doesn't loop well and is a bit repetitive
- The in-game radio is terribly annoying
- Unskippable dialogues
- Some unresolved threads

The navigator's head makes an appearance!

[PS3] Diablo III + Reaper of Souls (2012)

How:
Got as a present with the PS3 by my brother.
Note:
I finished the game with the witch doctor (male) with 4 dogs, 1 gargantuan, and lots of spawning fetish minions.
Pros:
- Immediate, fun gameplay
- Very cool playing characters with character-specific lore and equipment. Lots of cool monsters.
- Great graphics and environments with changing whether conditions. A lot of attention to detail.
- Environments are destructible and include traps
- Lots of cool spells and equipment
- Amazing cinematics
- Cool story and lots of lore
- Great voice acting, sound effects, music
- Some cool side quests
- Large world with lots of dungeon types including open spaces
- It has its sense of humor
Cons:
- Way too easy and forgiving. Most demons (including bosses) are affected by buffs such as confusion, slow, panic. Getting a strong character is just a matter of patience.
- Few side quests
- After a while, it is just more of the same. I had little interest to keep playing in adventure mode after finishing the main story.
- Would have been very cool to have small illustrations accompanying the demons lore

[PC] The Cat Lady (2012)

How:
Read about it on Adventuregamers.com, got with a Flash Deal discount at GOG.com
Pros:
- Excellent voice-overs
- Simple controls and immediate gameplay
- Captivating story with a deep meaning
- Simple but nice puzzles
- Very good dialogues
- Weird etherogeneous graphical / animation style, which surprisingly works
- Some jumpy moments
- Immersive mood
Cons:
- The rock songs kill the mood

[PC] .heartbeats (2012)

Pros:
- Smart idea of having four heartbeats corresponding to four characters and the beat reflecting player choices
Cons:
- Tries to be sad and so on
- Could have worked better with better music and better graphics in general (although minimal, graphics such as fonts could be made better)

[NES] Shadowgate (1989)

Pros:
- Immersive scenario, faithful to its theme
- A decent variety of music
- Not so easy
Cons:
- The light torch thing is so much annoying and useless, it makes the game play like a pain
- Too much trial & error
- The "Leave" and "Close" actions are of no use
- Slow movements and actions due to the control via cursor
- Some illogical puzzles (e.g. cannot kill the wolf with a sword, must use the arrow)

[PC] Eternally Us (2010)

Pro:
- Ottima grafica
- Ottimo doppiaggio
- Genere di enigmi decisamente atipico
Contro:
- Cortissimo
- Pochissimi enigmi
- Anche se pensato per essere semplice, le ambientazioni sono un pò troppo scarne
- Più che un'avventura grafica sembra di leggere un racconto breve

[PC] Spooks (2006)

Pro:
- Divertente
- Enigmi simpatici
Contro:
- Davvero troppo corto, finisce quando sembra prendere il via...
- Può essere difficile abituarsi allo stile grafico

[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)

[Amiga][PC] Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1992)

Pro:
- Storia bellissima, dialoghi, musica e grafica altrettanto
- Si incontrano i personaggi del primo gioco
- Ottimi enigmi
- Divertente e spiritoso più del primo
- Si può giocare a due livelli di difficoltà
- Ottima longevità
Contro:
- La parte finale dell'inseguimento può diventare frustrante
- Un paio di enigmi hanno poco senso (uno è basato su un gioco di parole inglese che in italiano non funziona)

[PC] Grim Fandango (1998, 2015 Remastered)

Pro:
- Trama bellissima e suggestiva con ottima longevità
- Personaggi caratterizzati benissimo, alcuni sono ormai idoli nel genere delle avventure
- Dialoghi eleganti, profondi e divertenti, alcune frasi sono rimaste nella storia
- Enigmi di ottima fattura anche se difficili danno molte soddisfazioni
- Grafica e ambientazioni a dir poco magnifiche
- Colonna sonora favolosa
- Doppiaggio italiano ottimo
Contro:
- Alcuni enigmi sono molto difficili senza motivo
- Il sistema di controllo può risultare scomodo e difficile da far proprio
- L'inventario è bruttarello
- Qualche bug coi poligoni mina l'immersione nel gioco

Great moment from the remastered version.