My favorite of the System Sacom FMV games, Lunacy feels like a fitting expansion upon the ideas laid down in the two Mansion of Hidden Souls games. I do find a great deal of charm in those games' constraints, but nevertheless I consider this an improvement in nearly every respect.
The town is a wonderfully moody place to walk around, the characters are fun, the music is great. I wish the English voice actors were credited, because by god does one of the characters sound like the scientist in Half-Life. One of the antagonists approaches the player character by saying "Hiya, stupid", which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a video game and alone makes it a game worth playing.
My only real complaint is that, like many, I do find the change of environment in the second disc to be much worse than the town of the first disc, but I appreciate what System Sacom was going for. There was also one puzzle on that disc whose solution seems to be hoping you made the correct 1-in-4 guess and reloading if you got it wrong. It's supposed to involve matching a song you heard earlier, but even listening to all the options removes your ability to complete the puzzle without reloading. Very clumsy; hopefully I missed something.
Otherwise, I absolutely love this game. Hands down my favorite of the FMV games I've been going through this month, and one I can unreservedly recommend to anyone looking for something a little bit weird. Just, like, don't pay $350 for it or whatever game collector motherfuckers are asking for it these days.
The town is a wonderfully moody place to walk around, the characters are fun, the music is great. I wish the English voice actors were credited, because by god does one of the characters sound like the scientist in Half-Life. One of the antagonists approaches the player character by saying "Hiya, stupid", which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a video game and alone makes it a game worth playing.
My only real complaint is that, like many, I do find the change of environment in the second disc to be much worse than the town of the first disc, but I appreciate what System Sacom was going for. There was also one puzzle on that disc whose solution seems to be hoping you made the correct 1-in-4 guess and reloading if you got it wrong. It's supposed to involve matching a song you heard earlier, but even listening to all the options removes your ability to complete the puzzle without reloading. Very clumsy; hopefully I missed something.
Otherwise, I absolutely love this game. Hands down my favorite of the FMV games I've been going through this month, and one I can unreservedly recommend to anyone looking for something a little bit weird. Just, like, don't pay $350 for it or whatever game collector motherfuckers are asking for it these days.