This review contains spoilers
I liked it and there were a lot of nice nods and winks to Lucasarts games (and teasing Sierra games). The puzzles are fairly straight forward, though a times there are moments where the game assumes that you know an area is open.
without giving a cut scene or having some sort of action to say that it will open up. Or maybe I just missed whatever clue was supposed to tell me that. I admit, this just saw me wander around for longer than I should have.
There's parts of the game that just aren't accessible for the time being...not sure that this is spoilery, but will add it as such the arcade is supposed to have games in it, but because they haven't made the games the arcade is just closed until they patch the game. I didn't know this until after completing the game, so I kept going back to try and open it up, assuming that it was important to story line.
The characters were interesting, though some of the voice acting took some getting used to.
There were two point that I caved to find a hint. Both resulted in me going 'duh'.
The first was early in the game where the answer was "pick up toilet paper". Given all of the hubhub about the toilet paper on the blog and on twitter you'd think I would have picked this up
The second was very near the game. I was trying to use the panel with every inventory item I had. I didn't think to use the verb "open" with the panel. It was pretty late at night....
The end does feel rushed and you could argue that this is due to the story that they're trying to tell. Or it may just be that it feels rushed and the story is that way to justify the rushed feeling. But the pacing felt a little awkward throughout. Some of the chapters were super quick, while others went for quite a while. Often I think this was to indicate a shift in something happening in the town, but yeah.
I'll probably play it again on casual to see how it's different and to get the achievement (and to take a look at more of the books and dial more phone numbers). And like most adventure games I'll probably end up playing it again once I've forgotten most of it
without giving a cut scene or having some sort of action to say that it will open up. Or maybe I just missed whatever clue was supposed to tell me that. I admit, this just saw me wander around for longer than I should have.
There's parts of the game that just aren't accessible for the time being...not sure that this is spoilery, but will add it as such the arcade is supposed to have games in it, but because they haven't made the games the arcade is just closed until they patch the game. I didn't know this until after completing the game, so I kept going back to try and open it up, assuming that it was important to story line.
The characters were interesting, though some of the voice acting took some getting used to.
There were two point that I caved to find a hint. Both resulted in me going 'duh'.
The first was early in the game where the answer was "pick up toilet paper". Given all of the hubhub about the toilet paper on the blog and on twitter you'd think I would have picked this up
The second was very near the game. I was trying to use the panel with every inventory item I had. I didn't think to use the verb "open" with the panel. It was pretty late at night....
The end does feel rushed and you could argue that this is due to the story that they're trying to tell. Or it may just be that it feels rushed and the story is that way to justify the rushed feeling. But the pacing felt a little awkward throughout. Some of the chapters were super quick, while others went for quite a while. Often I think this was to indicate a shift in something happening in the town, but yeah.
I'll probably play it again on casual to see how it's different and to get the achievement (and to take a look at more of the books and dial more phone numbers). And like most adventure games I'll probably end up playing it again once I've forgotten most of it