Pros:
- Nice puzzles overall
- Several cut-scenes
- Cool old school 3D graphics
- Overall good, carefree mood even during the darker bits
Cons:
- Repetitive music
- Confusing controls and interface, easy to miss stuff
- Bad field of view
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| A Gigerish corridor in a very brief game section! |
Note:
I played the "extended cut" version, which is an unofficial patch that fixes some bugs and adds back some unused music and dialogue.
Pros:
- Just the old school graphics I like
- Great atmospheric music
- Lots of cutscenes
Cons:
- Lots of bugs and glitches, even with the patch installed
- Annoying action scenes to complete via trial & error
- Unfair, obscure puzzles
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| At one point you dress up like a woman, and the character even makes a falsetto voice. |
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
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| A totally unexpected innuendo |
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| The only fun part was to see Death in game. |
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
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
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
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| Once again, I didn't get a full score in a Sierra game. |
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
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
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| Trapped in a coffin. Actually, asking for help doesn't help. |
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
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| This might also be the first appearance of a talking head in an adventure game. |
