[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] Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice (1995)

How:
Read about it on magazines, got on a Black Friday sale at GOG.
Pros:
- Nice tense atmosphere throughout the entire game
- Old school graphics, with pre-rendered 3D animations and drawn backgrounds
- Some nice cutscenes
Cons:
- I skipped a cutscene because I did actions in a different order
- The monsters are laughable
- Very easy puzzles
- Rushed-up unfolding of the story, weak characters

The Necronomicon!

I found the first part of the code via trial and error. This broke some parts of the game.

[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] Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness (1986 remake) (1981)

How:
Got it on GOG during a winter sale.
Pros:
- Nice and odd mixture of first-person dungeon crawler, classical fantasy rpg, and space fighting sim
- Easy to get in and strangely addictive
- Big world
- Nice little side quests
Cons:
- Not always clear what must be done in order to proceed with the story
- The world has no memory, you can kill the king and go back and he'll be there again
- No music
- Being a magician is practically useless, and you must purchase a spell for each use
- Monsters (like the skeletons) tend to be goofy
- Experience levels are useless

My final character. I got two red gems simply by repeating a quest twice.
Also, I had 88 INT at some point, but went down to 36 for no reason.

"Wandering eyes" is basically a beholder.

[PC] Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (CD-ROM version) (1992)

How:
Got with the Activision Quests sale at GOG.com.
Pros:
- Very nice graphics and animations, the best of the series so far (as much as I love EGA)
- Amusing idea of time-traveling across the previous and future episodes of the game
Cons:
- The high-pitched music can get quite annoying
- Cannot have voice and subtitles at the same time, had to play with no voiceover
- Two out of five possible actions have no use whatsoever
- Several frustrating trial-and-error arcade sequences
- Not many puzzles and not many locations to visit, the story just drives along on its own

You can visit SQIII if you input the correct code - which I did on my first random code trial!

My final score. This time I didn't play the Astro Chicken game in the arcade.

[PC] Quantumnauts (2010)

How:
Bought both Quantumnauts games from the official website after playing Oz Orwell.
Note:
Played the Italian version.
Pros:
- Nice puzzles
- Nice story and setting
- Cut-scenes have good quality
- I have a weak spot for this graphical style
- Some cool situations (e.g. the talking statues near the end)
- Gameplay never gets boring or monotonous
- Some red herrings
- The game actually manages to get funny once the player realizes it is meant to be a comedy
Cons:
- Many typos and grammatical errors even in the original language (Italian)
- Text is too small and difficult to read
- The main character often stands in front of interactive objects, must move him away all the time
- Animations are not smooth at all
- No sound effects
- Some annoying pixel hunting (e.g. the crack in the cave)
- Very slow navigation
- Missing descriptions with most actions
- Humor is sometimes out of place

[PC] Back to the Future: The Game - Episodes 1-5 (2010)

How:
Read about it on Adventuregamers.com, bought the series during a Steam sale.
Pros:
- Very nice in-game animations
- Excellent voice acting
- Great writing, dialogue and characters
- Well-balanced puzzles overall, with some fun semi-arcade parts
- Some very good humour
- Compelling story and nice setting
Cons:
- Occasional graphics, sound, gameplay and camera glitches break the game flow
- Facial animations are of alternating quality
- Music, sound effects and voice overs are out of balance
- The movement mechanism is sometimes annoying and rather buggy
- Feels a bit isolating at times
- The built-in hint system gets too much in the way (can be disabled though)

[DS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (2007)

How:
Found at a reasonable price while browsing games at Gamestop. Never heard the game before, but decided to go for it since it has Final Fantasy in the title.
Pros:
- Nice setting with good scene variety
- Likable characters
- A simple, yet well paced story
- Excellent graphics and fitting music
- Playing characters can wear/carry many different clothes/weapons with the graphics changing
Cons:
- The accessory/weapon/armor creation system is somewhat overwhelming
- Starts too easy, very linear
- Not enough motivation to switch characters and use special moves or buy special stats-enhancing items
- Diagonal movement is very uncomfortable with the console d-pad
- Easy to get lost, the ingame map has marginal utility and the game perspective does not allow to see the current level clearly
- The game can be saved only in special areas (at crystals), which are not even frequent. This sacrifices mobile gaming and quick games a lot.
- Items easily fall on the characters head and are annoying to retrieve
- Having obligatory multiple characters makes gameplay confusing and cluttered

[DS] Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2008)

How:
Just the well advertised sequel to a game which I enjoyed in its previous installments.
Pros:
- Nice story, well integrated with the puzzles, gameplay never gets boring
- A lot of cut-scenes
- Nice mini-games
- Very long
- Sheds a new light on Layton's past and Luke, endowing them with a real personality
- Puzzles are well balanced
Cons:
- Sometimes contradictory in a creepy way, all feelings are rationalized in an unsettling manner
- Flora is for some reason frequently forgotten and overlooked, she mostly feels (and is treated) like a pain in the ass
- All revolves around the cardinal and awkward concept of "being a gentleman", spoiling the good moments in the story

[SNES] Chrono Trigger (1995)

How:
Suggested by a couple of Japanese friends and finally by an Italian friend willing to play a Japanese RPG together. We considered the game to be the perfect start for testing our new USB gamepad for the SNES.
Pros:
- Beautiful graphics and music
- Very enthralling story
- Grinding is virtually non existent, encounters are for the most part avoidable and integrate greatly with the environment
- A lot of paths and different endings
- Exciting combat system with dozens of different attacks and combinations of them thereof, each with its own gorgeous animation
- Many epic boss fights
- Items and weapons clearly state their characteristics and who can equip them
- Never gets frustrating
- Not exceedingly linear
Cons:
- Overall too easy, only manages to get almost challenging towards the end and only if foes are fought the wrong way
- Some translation defects
- Some glitches
- Main character is always silent and makes it difficult to create a bond with him 

[NES] Final Fantasy (1987)

Pro:
- Nella sua semplicità è divertente, esteso e appassionante
- E' un gioco che con poche semplici regole permette di pianificare strategie (il che è divertente)
- La storia offre qualche spunto interessante
Contro:
- Gli incontri random sono troppo frequenti, rendendo il gioco furbescamente longevo e spesso irritante
- Comunque i tempi sono sempre molto lunghi, il combattimento più semplice impiega minimo 1 minuto
- Il mondo in cui è ambientato sembra il classico fantasy medievaleggiante ma si rivela ben presto un miscuglio incoerente con pirati, mummie, ninja, dracula e batman
- Storia ingenua
- Rischia di diventare troppo facile anche per via dei combattimenti così frequenti che alzano l'esperienza
- Non c'è alcun modo e nessun hint (oltre che provare sul campo e cercare di capire autonomamente con conseguenti soldi sprecati quando si compra) per sapere chi può portare un'arma/armatura, quanto danno fanno, quanto proteggono, quali sono le caratteristiche e gli effetti secondari, o a cosa servono i vari anelli, guanti, braccialetti che si trovano in giro

[PC] Duty and Beyond (2006)

Pro:
- Storia simpatica e interessante, anche con qualche tocco macabro
- La grafica e le animazioni in bassa risoluzione sono comunque gradevoli
- Musiche carine e adatte agli scenari
- Piuttosto longevo, inoltre il sistema a punti e la quest delle gemme contribuiscono alla rigiocabilità
- Enigmi simpatici e di difficoltà equilibrata
- Personaggi simpatici e caratterizzati
- Diverse citazioni/omaggi ad altre avventure (sia classiche che indie)
Contro:
- La bassissima risoluzione potrebbe essere un deterrente
- L'ultima parte forse è troppo facile e lineare

[PC] Trilby's Notes (2006)

Pro:
- Riesce a mettere una certa ansia
- E' sostanzialmente horror
- Si guidano diversi personaggi in diverse epoche con enigmi e parti arcade divertenti
- L'uomo alto può diventare un personaggio di culto
- Enigmi al solito ben ragionati
- Effetti speciali semplici ma convincenti
Contro:
- L'interfaccia a comandi testuali può risultare scomoda
- Comincia ad esserci un pò troppa carne al fuoco (dal punto di vista della storia)

[Amiga] Simon the Sorcerer (1994)

Pro:
- Storia, personaggi, dialoghi e sketch simpatici e scanzonati
- Enigmi difficili al punto giusto, favoriscono la già ottima longevità
- Il protagonista fa le magie!
- Grafica e animazioni di ottima fattura
- Ambientazioni fantasy ottimamente dettagliate
- Colonna sonora ottima e appropriata al tono fantasy-comico
Contro:
- Alcune (poche) sessioni di pixel-hunting
- Un paio di enigmi sono davvero astrusi
- Anche se c'è la mappa si perde tempo con gli spostamenti

[PC] Day of the Tentacle (1993)

How:
Bought the game in a budget edition (digipack) while browsing for games at a local computer shop.
Pros:
- Trama assurda e scanzonata che non può che divertire
- Grafica cartoonesca simpatica e animata a dovere
- Sistema di gioco coraggioso e riuscitissimo, i personaggi possono passarsi gli oggetti dell'inventario e aiutarsi a vicenda
- Gli enigmi, anche se in gran parte demenziali, hanno la loro logica e si risolvono con piacere
- Si possono guidare i tre personaggi in qualsiasi momento
- Contiene anche il gioco intero Maniac Mansion
Cons:
- Quite short