Posted on: September 27, 2019
ghorahn
Verified ownerGames: 103 Reviews: 6
Good story, polished game
I didn't play this one when it was new, so I have no real choice but to judge it by my current-day expectations on adventure games. This game tells a really good story, and was clearly crafted with love. The remastered art looks really nice, but the original art looked like it would have been great at the time. (I'm a fan of pixel art, so I won't be bad-mouthing that in any way.) Voice work is generally excellent...although some character were voiced by actors doing "familiar" voices, which I find a bit distracting -- it breaks the immersion (for me, at least) a bit to hear The Brain (of Pinky and the Brain), for example, whenever one of the villain's henchman talks. That just leaves the things I didn't like as much. For one, the motorcycle motif of the game didn't really resonate with me...although that's no fault of the game's creators. Some of the music started to grate at me pretty hard as the game went by. The heavier guitar-specific stuff I enjoyed (Was that a JCM900 I heard?)....it was the janglier stuff that made me think about turning the BGM off entirely. And the puzzles....some of them got frustrating in a hurry, and when I looked at a walkthrough, all I could think was, "What am I even trying to accomplish that would lead to me to do ~that?~" Anyhow, now I've played through it once, and I'm a better person for having done so.
Is this helpful to you?
