| okr said: Of the few I listed in my first post I'd especially recommend Jack Keane (<- another review), which seems to be one of the best recent releases. Or just download Sam & Max Season Two. But if - judging from your original post - you're more into Myst-style adventures, I can't recommend you anything, as I didn't follow this subgenre in the last decade (I never liked Myst or any Myst-like game - I'm the typical LucasArts/Sierra/Westwood/RevolutionSoftware adventure gamer). |
Same here, okr! Well, Sierra(/Dynamix)/Westwood/Lucasarts. I found it really hard to recommend something Myst-like, and that was the only game I'd played out of the ones mentioned above. (I do want to give Syberia and Atlantis a try though.)
I thought Jack Keane was interesting, but the main character felt too derived (Guybrush clone). The puzzles were unique and quite comical, but the setup for each puzzle was way too directed. The new Ankh games are great though. The humour and puzzles in the first game were all spot on. I particularly liked the flood puzzle and Assil's haphazard exit from the Sphinx.
Some DS buckets/bouquets for kirby007:
Operation Undercover: Dual Motives is a fantastic game for the DS that received a very poor translation. If you can get past that, it features an interesting story of sabotage/espionage set in WWII. You can play darts in it, and there's a hotspot trigger so you never have to go pixel hunting. I haven't played the matching Operation Wintersun for the PC :(.
Runaway 2 made it to the DS, but the port wasn't that great. It was a case of scaling the PC graphics down to a DS screen and offering zoom facilities. Not impressive. The heartbreaking thing was hearing the dev. team talk about how much time they spent on it.
And games I'm looking out for:
I want to play The Secret Files: Tunguska. It looks interesting and I'm thinking about getting the Wii version of it. The Whispered World looks like it's going to have a beautiful atmosphere to it. Two more games I'm hanging out for at the moment are So Blonde and SCG4AP.
