Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate

the graphics are top notch, the animations well done, the inside jokes and humor fantastic. Whats not to love? well. ... for one..... countless hotspots that dont go away once used leads to almost infinite item combining when stumped, which is almost every level due to arcane, illogical and miraculous puzzle solving. In other words, you character lands into a new level with new goals to complete before the game progresses. Thats fine and is the enjoyable part. Exploring all the hot spots, getting the jokes and back story, talking to new npcs. Great! Then the game play kicks in and the unsolvable unless you play with an open walk through puzzles make the game very tiresome. You still hang there as each level is at first fun pure adventure. hours go by and you realize.. hey.. this isnt fun its a chore. It would be great if they let some of the not needed hot spots disappear after getting the text and joke. It would be great if quick travel worked all the time but many times no matter how many times I clicked the character would walk to the destination. It would be great if they allowed you to pick up objects as you find them, or allow different ways to solve puzzles or dropped better hints that the game wasnt allowing you to use an item just yet due to some other gateway needing to be triggered. Many times puzzles needed an object before the action could be triggered, but many many objects that would work are right there next to you or in your inventory already but nooooo, the game insists you back track myriad times in order to first build a super conductor rocketship out of cheetos first. *sigh add in over the top sexist female animations for extra nausea. I dont know, this game could have been stellar based on the graphics, animations, back ground art, story but filler game mechanics to stretch gameplay (ridiculous amount of backtracking needed) makes this more tiresome than fun. at least the lead male char wasnt such a jerk this time

+ My favourite game in the series + Great characters + Riddles not too hard + Nice graphics and voice acting - Tendency to crash on Win10, so save often - Very short

Okay so, a bit of a background first. As a kid some ten years ago, I got the first two games on CD at a local supermarket. I think I played through them like 20 times each how much fun I had and how much I loved the story and characters. This game then came out and I coulnd't get it because they were not selling it at that supermarket. I was content with just watching the character trailers over and over and couldn't believe they killed off Brian! I was probably on the verge of tears. Years pass and I find this gem here on GoG! I got it right away and was instantly blown away. Yup, that's that beautiful artstyle for sure! Those beautiful hand-drawn backgrounds I fell in love as a kids, the somewhat odd character models of someone like Gabbo, etc. New thing in this game are the hotspot and hint systems which make the game much more fun when you're stuck somewhere and don't wanna feel like cheating and looking it up online! Love that! Also you get to play as Gina, which is great because it's a story about the two of them, so it should be logical to play as both. The only thing I didn't like is that they brought a lot of new voice actors for the characters. Both main characters use different voices. Maybe I'm just so used to the old ones that I cannot think about Brian and his "I dunno" or "Presto!" in that iconic voice. New voices are good, but I still prefer the old ones. Music and the story are great, it's a nice conclusion to the story I started ten years ago and I was very satisfied in the end! Overall a great experience!

The final installment of the Runaway series is definitely the best one out of the trilogy. The story picks up where the second game left off, although filling some of the events between the two games with retrospections. Still, the story is told in a much more engaging way now. You interchangeably control Gina and Brian, trying to piece together what exactly is going on. The game's interface reaches out a helping hand, with nicely crafted "map" of chapters that you can look up whenever you want, as well as a nice hint system built into the game. All these systems should be enough to help you out when you're stuck and don't know what to do, but there were two or three instances where the hints were more puzzling than the puzzles themselves. Still, a nice addition. While the cast of annoying characters didn't shrink, most of the really cringe-inducing ones get very little screen-time, so the whole cast is much more bearable than in the previous entry. It's a really solid adventure game, but the fact that you have to play the previous two installments to enjoy it may be too daunting to some.

For me this was the best in the series, i did enjoyed all 3 games, but this one is my favorite ! I really like the story ! Whole story is way more realistic this time, great characters, a very nice mixture of dark and classic Pendulo humor with some refferences to classic adventure and action movies. This time you can play for both Brian and Gina, i would say their screen time is 50/50. Overall i really enjoyed this game from start to finish, too bad Pendulo never did another game in this series, i would absolutely like to see another adventure !