[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] Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (1992)

How:
Got on GOG on a Black Friday sale.
Pros:
- Nice sci-fi setting
- Nice minimalistic background music
- Nice graphics and animations
Cons:
- Slow movement, not possible to skip
- Basic inventory-oriented puzzles
- Fonts are large and hard to read

Taking a leak - first time ever in a game?

Cosmic innuendos.

I thought the scribblings would be password or coordinates, but apparently they appear in other Microprose adventures (e.g. Dragonsphere). 

[PC] Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum (1991)

How:
Bought in a bundle together with the first one.
Pros:
- Moody sci-fi/noir setting
- Very nice atmosphere and presentation combining 2D graphics and FMV
- Gameplay improvements of the point and click sessions over the previous installment
- Investigation is always fun
- Addition of music is welcome
- Almost all characters have voiceover
Cons:
- Interrogating people involves repeatedly going through dialogue trees until you get the answer that doesn't piss them off
- Music is nice but very low quality
- Many possible dead ends
- The yellow descriptions over location backgrounds are hardly readable
- Some annoying arcade and trial&error parts (kill the snake, pass through the quicksands, ...)

[PC] Tex Murphy: Mean Streets (1989)

Pros:
- A nice investigation game where taking notes is more than critical (and red herrings dominate!)
- A pleasantly clichéd cyberpunk dystopia that succeeds in capturing the player with its tangled plot
- Nice atmosphere overall with believable characters and a constant and dark (yet fitting) sense of humor
- Looking for clues, especially during interrogation, is fun and rewarding
- Alarms in the adventure parts (in the more classical sense) add a nice tension element to gameplay
Cons:
- Too much of the same, again and again
- The fighting scenes are totally useless and annoying
- No music
- Flight simulation totally out of place, or could have made for some memorable parts if better exploited
- While acceptable for the most part, graphics quality is very unbalanced and could be much better
- An incredibly frustrating arcade part in the end (running out of a door with the main character walking)
- Must talk with everybody about everything to get some particular clues
- Cannot save during the adventure parts, which contain unpredictable deaths and easily missable objects
- Many objects are never used and the verb "taste" is there just for fun
- Too much trial & error (e.g. bribe or threaten, pay Lee or wait for clues, push button or ignore it, etc.)
- Some implications are never revealed

[PC] Carol Reed: Remedy (2004)

Pros:
- A simple, yet compelling story
- Rewarding puzzles
- Many locations with great photography, a pleasure to explore
Cons:
- The watercolor effect is perhaps too strong
- Music can become unnerving after a while
- Too short, can be beaten in one sitting

[Amiga] Dark Seed (1992)

Pro:
- Ambientazioni inquietanti e orrorifiche
- Grafica e musica eccellenti
- Storia interessante e ben sceneggiata
- Enigmi non troppo facili
- Anche se ha una difficoltà di fondo dovuta al fatto che vanno compiute azioni preventivamente per non rimanere bloccati, lo si affronta con piacere e voglia di sfida
Contro:
- Bisogna stare in luoghi precisi a orari precisi (il tempo scorre anche stando fermi), senza alcun suggerimento
- E' possibile rimanere bloccati senza rendersene conto se non si sono fatte determinate azioni nei giorni precedenti
- Non c'è nessun suggerimento sul fatto che si è rimasti bloccati
- In alcune parti bisogna essere veloci con il mouse

[PC] I Misteri di Maggia (2004)

Pros:
- A high abundance of real-life pictures make the city of Maggia fully explorable in practice
- Some (brief and infrequent) engaging parts, e.g. the underwater section behind the waterall and falling into the trap
Cons:
- A high potential not exploited to its full. An amateurish feel pervades the game, when it could have been avoided with slightly more wisdom
- Silly story and writing
- Puzzles are almost entirely based on object/place hunting in a very large, hardly explorable environment, and make difficulty out of inexplorability
- Irritating music
- Neat pictures, but apart from that, in general production quality is not good (dialogues, dubbing, effects)