played the trilogy a long time ago and thought i had never finished the third one, but i definitely did, even tho it shows only like an hour's worth of achievements... i remembered a lot of that game while playing through it
god my memory sucks, i think i consume too much CONTENT
anyway these games are both great and terrible
MOST of the puzzles are very solvable without a guide but every now and then it just throws so many fuckin options at you with very little guidance that you either resign yourself to tedium or just look up a guide... i'd say about two or three puzzles (or Entire Situations) per game are like that? it sucks cause otherwise i think it's a pretty immaculately designed game, very consistent within its own cartoon logic, although you do have to kind of let yourself be an idiot
and then there's the story... most of it is not bad! most of the writing is extremely good! it's fucking funny!
but it's also often extremely sexist and occasionally extremely ableist in ways that make me go ehhahehhwwe, and that fuckin sucks! goal and donna being the main culprits (or, rather, victims), respectively, but the tone carries throughout the entire game even when they're not around
i have a great fondness for this game but it's hard to recommend to anyone i respect because i'd be subjecting them to some real horseshit
ALAS!
still 4/5 stars tho like when it's funny it's funny i dunno i'm weak all right
ps having just come off of randal's monday, a game published by daedalic, and a game whose main character i despised because he was openly a piece of shit, it's a little weird to say, but i find rufus' bullshit far more endearing? maybe cause there are so many other characters calling him out, as opposed to randal, where no one really does, i dunno, but anyway, yeah
god my memory sucks, i think i consume too much CONTENT
anyway these games are both great and terrible
MOST of the puzzles are very solvable without a guide but every now and then it just throws so many fuckin options at you with very little guidance that you either resign yourself to tedium or just look up a guide... i'd say about two or three puzzles (or Entire Situations) per game are like that? it sucks cause otherwise i think it's a pretty immaculately designed game, very consistent within its own cartoon logic, although you do have to kind of let yourself be an idiot
and then there's the story... most of it is not bad! most of the writing is extremely good! it's fucking funny!
but it's also often extremely sexist and occasionally extremely ableist in ways that make me go ehhahehhwwe, and that fuckin sucks! goal and donna being the main culprits (or, rather, victims), respectively, but the tone carries throughout the entire game even when they're not around
i have a great fondness for this game but it's hard to recommend to anyone i respect because i'd be subjecting them to some real horseshit
ALAS!
still 4/5 stars tho like when it's funny it's funny i dunno i'm weak all right
ps having just come off of randal's monday, a game published by daedalic, and a game whose main character i despised because he was openly a piece of shit, it's a little weird to say, but i find rufus' bullshit far more endearing? maybe cause there are so many other characters calling him out, as opposed to randal, where no one really does, i dunno, but anyway, yeah