Okay, fine, a half-star for the shitty puzzles. We all know which ones they are. Otherwise, fantastically upscaled art (it looks like what I forced my imagination to make the Smoothing option look back in the '90s!) and audio along with typically interesting commentary from Tim Schafer and Co. do justice to one of the greatest adventure games ever made.
Short enough it can be finished in an evening, full of quick wit writing, incredible style and an all-time lineup of voice performances from Roy Conrad, Mark Hamill, Hamilton Camp, Maurice LaMarche and all the the rest - what more could you ask for from a point-and-click, especially so far removed from its heyday when more foundational games like Day of the Tentacle or more ambitious games like Grim Fandango are meeting players without the mental fortitude and muscle memory required to deduce solutions to their absurdly obtuse puzzle designs.
Unfortunately, and I can't guarantee this is true, but something about playing this on a Dual Shock 4 rather than mouse and keyboard made it impossible to pull the trigger on the chainsaw fast enough to steal the bike from the Cavefish and I'm definitely sad about that. But I also played this game about once a month for, oh, my entire childhood so I didn't need the third act to get what I needed out of this.
Short enough it can be finished in an evening, full of quick wit writing, incredible style and an all-time lineup of voice performances from Roy Conrad, Mark Hamill, Hamilton Camp, Maurice LaMarche and all the the rest - what more could you ask for from a point-and-click, especially so far removed from its heyday when more foundational games like Day of the Tentacle or more ambitious games like Grim Fandango are meeting players without the mental fortitude and muscle memory required to deduce solutions to their absurdly obtuse puzzle designs.
Unfortunately, and I can't guarantee this is true, but something about playing this on a Dual Shock 4 rather than mouse and keyboard made it impossible to pull the trigger on the chainsaw fast enough to steal the bike from the Cavefish and I'm definitely sad about that. But I also played this game about once a month for, oh, my entire childhood so I didn't need the third act to get what I needed out of this.