Posted on: October 13, 2018
P-E-S
Verified ownerGames: 1981 Reviews: 41
Not all games age well or were any good.
Somehow I remembered this as a pretty decent game back when I was a teenager, but after replaying The Last Crusade shortly after it was re-released on GOG I had to reevaluate my opinion. Nostalgia can be a terrible thing at times. I really can't figure out why anyone would praise this game, these days. It's a badly abridged version of the movie it's based on, often skipping big chunks of story that would provide some coherence to the actual plot. People not familiar with the film will simply end up scratching their heads. Even as a big fan of the original trilogy I have a hard time seeing past that. Not only that, but half the game feels like it's unnecessary padding for game length, especially the latter part as the fisticuffs drastically increases in frequency; good luck with those repeated checkpoints after the zeppelin flight. Sure, you can bypass some of these, but only if you happened to have the item you didn't know you needed or happened to find. This just ends up in a lot of trial and error and ultimately frustration. If you want a well-designed Indiana Jones point-and-click adventure you're much better off with The Fate of Atlantis, which is a far superior game.
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