Dave Gilbert and WadjetEye are definitely among my favorite developers of all time at this point.
The puzzles were all pretty trivial. I only had to slow down a couple of time over the course of the game to figure things out, and I never needed any sort of outside help. I'm 100% ok with that since I'm not a huge fan of point and click game puzzles in most cases. I mostly see Point and Click as a vehicle to give players a bit more involvement in a narrative, rather than a genre I enjoy on its own.
The background and character portraits are all gorgeous and go a long way to setting the mood. Unfortunately, the character sprite work aren't quite up to snuff. The walking animations are in particular very wooden and awkward.
The voice acting was generally good, but there were some lines here and there that didn't land quite right. The audio quality seemed a little uneven throughout, but I'm not enough of an audiophile to really be able to say why or how.
It was very well written. Great characters and great overall plot and twists, with plenty of foreshadowing and logical conclusions to the decisions you make along the way. It never quite had the emotional impact of the best portions of the Blackwell Series for me. I think it's the grittier, gorier, grimmer writing. That said, there definitely were well written emotional scenes, and the twists and overall plot were top notch. I really loved the callbacks to Blackwell, as well. Tastefully handled.
Definitely worth a playthrough if Point and Click isn't a major turn off and you want a well-written urban fantasy adventure.
The puzzles were all pretty trivial. I only had to slow down a couple of time over the course of the game to figure things out, and I never needed any sort of outside help. I'm 100% ok with that since I'm not a huge fan of point and click game puzzles in most cases. I mostly see Point and Click as a vehicle to give players a bit more involvement in a narrative, rather than a genre I enjoy on its own.
The background and character portraits are all gorgeous and go a long way to setting the mood. Unfortunately, the character sprite work aren't quite up to snuff. The walking animations are in particular very wooden and awkward.
The voice acting was generally good, but there were some lines here and there that didn't land quite right. The audio quality seemed a little uneven throughout, but I'm not enough of an audiophile to really be able to say why or how.
It was very well written. Great characters and great overall plot and twists, with plenty of foreshadowing and logical conclusions to the decisions you make along the way. It never quite had the emotional impact of the best portions of the Blackwell Series for me. I think it's the grittier, gorier, grimmer writing. That said, there definitely were well written emotional scenes, and the twists and overall plot were top notch. I really loved the callbacks to Blackwell, as well. Tastefully handled.
Definitely worth a playthrough if Point and Click isn't a major turn off and you want a well-written urban fantasy adventure.