I know I know, this wasn't in my personal bucket list of spooky games for this month, but I just had to jump into the Backloggd Game of the Week tradition at the very least once, and hey, this indeed has the spooky thematic so it still counts!
Y'know, I wouldn't say that I'm someone who's difficult to charm, I'm very easily enthralled by bizarre or charismatic worlds and characters if they are unique or appealing enough, but I'll admit, I'm a bit of a picky bastard when it comes to humor. I massively respect games that try to go for the humoristic angle A TON, but that also results in me being a lot more strict with, for a lack of a better term, ''comedy games''; if you are trying to be funny cheeky game, then you better not miss (I say this, being the worst '''''''punster'''''' in the entire site...). Graphic adventure games are probably the breed that's most familiar with humor, and that's everything but a secret, Monkey Island and Sam&Max are two perfect examples, while far from the only ones. Whether its poking fun at the tropes of the genre they are part from or just breaking the fourth wall more directly, this more sarcastic, satirical and surrealist is one that I cannot get enough of. I was initially scared that No Rest for the Wicked would fail in this regard, since I didn't really enjoy a few jokes in the beginning, but luckily, it didn't took long before it put my concerns... to rest!... Oh my god that was the worst one yet holy fu-
It has been a while since I've been charmed by a bunch of morons this hard; the nameless servant is a fantastic main character and loved his dry and sarcastic commentary and I actually really enjoyed his voice (the voice acting in general is pretty good to be honest), the count/master is everything I could ever want from a pretentious and dumb as bricks vampire, I adore the depressive son of a bitch that is Otto with every bone in my body and Carla was a really funny character that I wished it had even more interactions with you and the prisoners! The writing is on point, there are indeed some jokes at first that felt too sarcastic or direct to my own liking, but after those everything is a hit; it's not a game to which you'll be constantly laughing at, but the smile will persist during the entire playthrough and will get a chuckle or too out of you.
Puzzles are pretty simplistic for what they are, tho that's not a negative. It's a quick experience after all, and considering the run time, the game is pretty clever with the problems it presents and it has a puzzles that I would call stellar, it's nothing mind-breaking, but it is very creative and it took a while for me to realize what to do. The only negative that I could point to is how many major objects blend with the background and other objects, but at this point, this is more of a generalized problem with this style of game that a particular fault of No Rest of the Wicked.
Weirdly enough, even the negative kinda connects with the biggest positive I can say about the game: if it were to be a bit longer, I could easily see this as a classic of the genre, both in visuals, design, and above all else, script. It goes for that very particular way of writing and nails it, while at the same time managing to feel completely unique. In the end, it is what it is, a very enjoyable albeit short and not very deep experience, but it is like a good pun; clever, lasts as long as it needs to, and it may take a while to get some parts of it, but it's very worth it.
Also, I kind of saw the end coming, but it didn't make it the less funny. All in all, you could say this game is pretty wickedI'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SO-
Y'know, I wouldn't say that I'm someone who's difficult to charm, I'm very easily enthralled by bizarre or charismatic worlds and characters if they are unique or appealing enough, but I'll admit, I'm a bit of a picky bastard when it comes to humor. I massively respect games that try to go for the humoristic angle A TON, but that also results in me being a lot more strict with, for a lack of a better term, ''comedy games''; if you are trying to be funny cheeky game, then you better not miss (I say this, being the worst '''''''punster'''''' in the entire site...). Graphic adventure games are probably the breed that's most familiar with humor, and that's everything but a secret, Monkey Island and Sam&Max are two perfect examples, while far from the only ones. Whether its poking fun at the tropes of the genre they are part from or just breaking the fourth wall more directly, this more sarcastic, satirical and surrealist is one that I cannot get enough of. I was initially scared that No Rest for the Wicked would fail in this regard, since I didn't really enjoy a few jokes in the beginning, but luckily, it didn't took long before it put my concerns... to rest!... Oh my god that was the worst one yet holy fu-
It has been a while since I've been charmed by a bunch of morons this hard; the nameless servant is a fantastic main character and loved his dry and sarcastic commentary and I actually really enjoyed his voice (the voice acting in general is pretty good to be honest), the count/master is everything I could ever want from a pretentious and dumb as bricks vampire, I adore the depressive son of a bitch that is Otto with every bone in my body and Carla was a really funny character that I wished it had even more interactions with you and the prisoners! The writing is on point, there are indeed some jokes at first that felt too sarcastic or direct to my own liking, but after those everything is a hit; it's not a game to which you'll be constantly laughing at, but the smile will persist during the entire playthrough and will get a chuckle or too out of you.
Puzzles are pretty simplistic for what they are, tho that's not a negative. It's a quick experience after all, and considering the run time, the game is pretty clever with the problems it presents and it has a puzzles that I would call stellar, it's nothing mind-breaking, but it is very creative and it took a while for me to realize what to do. The only negative that I could point to is how many major objects blend with the background and other objects, but at this point, this is more of a generalized problem with this style of game that a particular fault of No Rest of the Wicked.
Weirdly enough, even the negative kinda connects with the biggest positive I can say about the game: if it were to be a bit longer, I could easily see this as a classic of the genre, both in visuals, design, and above all else, script. It goes for that very particular way of writing and nails it, while at the same time managing to feel completely unique. In the end, it is what it is, a very enjoyable albeit short and not very deep experience, but it is like a good pun; clever, lasts as long as it needs to, and it may take a while to get some parts of it, but it's very worth it.
Also, I kind of saw the end coming, but it didn't make it the less funny. All in all, you could say this game is pretty wickedI'M SORRY I'M SORRY I'M SO-