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Gameplay-wise, this is a departure from Riven in that you’re now free to look in a 360 sphere around your character at any time. Lots of imaginative scenes and cutesy humor, this game is great if you want something that’s not too heavy, but has a simple charm. Obviously, don’t expect a gripping story, this game is more for people who like exploring a strange new world of machines and Jewish robots. I had fun with this game when it came out, and I’d definitely recommend anyone try it at least once. The game starts of in a linear fashion: you’re put in “rooms” and your job is to find a way out of said room. The art style is like cartoon Soviet industrial made to look organic.
Adorable little game with cute hand-drawn robots, tricky puzzles, and no dialogue. Tough recommend based on that, but I enjoyed playing this game regardless. People come down hard on how supernatural things get by the ending, which really takes a nosedive. Fantastic, love it! Unfortunately, but the third act everything has devolved into quick time events and you’re jiggling your joystick just to get a dialogue scene going. It starts great, you play a guy who just committed murder but has no real recollection of it, and you also play police detectives trying to track him down. I was intrigued by Cage’s efforts to find gameplay options where none should exist, as with the above “look through cabinets for wine glasses” sequence. Now that we’ve got all that out of the way, I want to say I enjoyed this game when it came out. Like all of Cage’s other work (Heavy Rain, Detroit, et al), Indigo Prophecy takes place in a big city, you play multiple characters, one or more of whom are police searching for another player character, it rains (or snows) way too much and everything turns out to be a conspiracy bigger than you could have imagined. C) His games will stop dead in their tracks while I search through cabinets, usually via precise button/stick movements, looking for something I know not where and D) At some point in the game, there’s a bathroom. B) He thinks games can be narratives where you are the hero, what a buffoon. Right off the bat, let’s make fun of David Cage. I’m including it here because it has its fans and I’m not one to condemn a game just because I personally did not enjoy the tone.įahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream, 2005). I haven’t played Dreamfall: Chapters, but jury’s out on whether it’s worth it or if the story should have ended with TLJ. Yet people love this game, despite lack of catharsis and having to wait another 8 years for a sequel, and 3 more for the story to end. The plot is a lot of build-up that runs around in circles, gives you one reveal, and turns you into a damn vegetable. There are way too many action scenes for the quality of input I’m allowed- it’s hard to even find a path through broken glass early on so that you don’t trip a sound sensor. The main character is in a freakin’ coma for the entire game, criminey. TLJ had tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic quips when talking about corporate globalism, but here it’s a major threat, and familiar characters are now living sad, empyu lives. In this game, it’s all gone to shit (btw, fuck sequels that do this that act like nothing was accomplished previously). In the prequel, you worked hard to preserve the fate of two worlds. Oh, man! Finally, a sequel to TLJ! Remember how upbeat the first one was, getting into mischief, finding your identity, fulfilling a destiny, overcoming fears? Well, fuck all that, life sucks and this game is bleak and depressing. Here are a few titles that actually come close to being “classic” adventure games.ĭreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom, 2006). None of the titles from this era are among my favorites, but I do have a few weak recommends.
As far as adventure games, though, you just had to hope someone overseas could come up with a compelling story and enriching gameplay.įor this list, I’m not going to do a countdown.
No, they weren’t adventure games, but they still had stories, and you were still an active participant in the narrative, so all was not lost. The early 2000’s weren’t exactly known for their killer titles but you could still have fun playing KOTOR, KH, HL2, SOTC, RE4, all the games we were too lazy to spell out longhand. Poorly translated and acted adventure games from apparently the last place that still made them, Europe, were all I could find. Throughout the 2000s, I vainly cast my net in a sea of shit for a graphic adventure game that held the same semblance of quality I had come to expect from LucasArts and Sierra.
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