Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle

Horrible dialogues, horribly written characters, horrible plot... the game has barely anything going for it other than the visuals (and even then the art style is really specific and may not fit everyone's tastes). You'll constantly be wishing you could play Broken Sword instead, as this game is basically trying to imitate that one at every corner at fails all the time. The overall design of the game is really flawed - you'll do the same stuff over and over again, or hear the same jokes over and over (e.g. Lokelani's boyfriends), and the payoff will be boring and frustrating. Not to mention frequent crashes and other technical problems, don't bother.

The game has all the hallmarks of a bad adventure game: bad story, cringe dialogues, cliched characters, awful fake accents, illogical puzzles, cumbersome interface for its time, lots and lots of long-winded boring cut-scenes and a disappointing "to be continued" at the end.

I'm a huge adventure game buff and I played the first two Runaway installments years ago and loved them. It's still as enjoyable and charming as ever BUT... what I notice now is the typical early 00s sexism in a few of the women (Tomb Raider\Dead or Alive Syndrome) and bringing back Joshua, the Long Duk Dong/Kobayashi racist stereotype. I can overlook it somewhat but it does make me cringe. There are a few other things here and there such as a few insults used, peculiar impersonations but if you've seen a 90s or 00s teen comedy, you've heard and seen all of it. Keep this in mind if you are thinking of buying it as not everyone tolerates it well! +Fun story, quirky characters, good voice acting +Little Devil, the sidekick lemur +It keeps the hammy charm of the first game +Great music reminiscient of 00s boybands and The Cranberries -I had to download a third-party program to get the game's cutscenes to work properly -The animations locked movement so you had to wait for a certain animation to finish for the dialogue or walking to continue which was frustrating. -I had the same issue in the first game where I had to resort to pixel hunting to the lack of brightness or contrast in the background. Is a game ever too hard? Maybe not, but this game was too frustrating! Overall I would give it 3ish stars BUT... [SPOILER] This game is kicked back to 2 stars for this: Brian Basco, shown to be a good and likeable hero who you can connect with, whose entire goal was to locate his missing girlfriend (who may be dead) decides to cheat with the local bartender (who the developers made to look as suggestive as Gina) and he gets no repurcussions for this. He even has a little moment where he had an angel and devil help make his decision to cheat on Gina, because she would never know. Yeah.... what the heck?! [END SPOILER]

dialogue is freak and story is boring dont buy

One of the best adventures i ever saw. 5 stars from me. The game is a diamond.