[PC] Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (1996)

How:
Got for free on GOG during a giveaway.

Pros:
- Great graphics and excellent animations
- Good puzzles overall
- Likable main character
- Nice and relaxed pace but still gives a sense of adventure

Cons:
- Very slow movement
- Unclear red herrings
- Some pixel hunting and unfairly obscure puzzles (e.g. you must use the bathroom keys to open a towel dispenser without even knowing the towel dispenser can be opened)
- I didn't care for the templar historical story line

A totally unexpected innuendo

[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.

[PC] Cruise for a Corpse (1991)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga times.

Pros:
- Great graphics and smooth animations

Cons:
- Important items and characters appear and disappear depending on the time of day (e.g. searching someone's laundry yields a newspaper piece only after talking to the priest)
- Tons of useless and misleading items
- Some annoying pixel hunting
- Illogical puzzles
- Bad storytelling
- Annoying music
- Bad English translation

[FM-Towns] Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga times, got on a GOG summer sale.

Pros:
- Nice puzzles, some have multiple solutions
- Nice graphics
- Some ideas will later appear in Monkey Island (e.g. the cannibals in MI1, the mazes in MI2, the two-headed squirrel, the monkey wrench, ...)

Cons:
- Too many dead ends
- Too many mazes, which are also very difficult to map
- The need for money for traveling makes the game unnecessarily difficult

[PC] Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987)

How:
Played Larry 3 in the past, got the entire collection on GOG.

Pros:
- Some fun situations (e.g. the flasher, the dance)
- Some nice puzzles
- Just the right game length

Cons:
- Slow movement
- Some walking dead scenarios
- Some random encounters carry important items
- Need precise wording for solving puzzles

Once again, I didn't get a full score in a Sierra game.

[Amiga] Maniac Mansion (1987)

How:
Played as a kid on the Amiga.

Note:
Finished with Razor and Bernard.

Pros:
- Great, clean graphics
- Nice puzzles, some can be solved in multiple ways
- Relaxed mood

Cons:
- Walking dead scenarios
- Many red herrings

[Amiga] Curse of Enchantia (1992)

How:
Heard about it since Amiga times.

Pros:
- Nice graphics and smooth animations
- Silly humor

Cons:
- No dialogues
- Very illogical puzzles
- Cumbersome gameplay with unclear actions, mostly trial and error
- Too many red herrings
- No item descriptions, sometimes it's difficult to understand the graphics

Trapped in a coffin. Actually, asking for help doesn't help.

[Mac] Enchanted Scepters (1986)

How:
Found while browsing a book on adventure games.

Note:
Credited to be the first point-and-click adventure game. Actually, it seems like "La Souris Golotte" came first.

Pros:
- Nice challenge with some almost unfairly difficult puzzles

Cons:
- Too much randomness
- Fights require no skill
- Some very crude graphics
- Weird mixture of typing and mouse commands

This might also be the first appearance of a talking head in an adventure game.

I finished the game with experience 3950 and wealth 1356, no idea what that means.

[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] Fallout 2 (1998)

How:
Got during a Fallout series giveaway at GOG.com.

Pros:
- Limited items and money make resource management useful
- Well written and darkly fun dialogues
- Great graphics, fitting dark ambient / industrial music
- Lots of nonlinearity and side quests

Cons:
- Cumbersome and annoying inventory management
- Using items can be confusing, the "use" functionality is not always the correct way
- Brutal difficulty encourages save scumming
- NPCs keep getting in the way
- Several glitches and bugs