Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space

These games are really funny and unique, and I'm glad I can enjoy them with new graphics and updated controls and UI. Kudos to the developers

Gorgeous game. Well written, perhaps one of the best if not the best written game, the script is hilarious. The only remark I have is that it is a tad bit short, not too short but the more you play it the more you want to experience it.

Simply put, if you've liked the Sam & Max games up to this point, this is right in line with the rest of them. It gets off to a bit of a rough start, but the end, I was still laughing so hard it hurt; I couldn't believe some of the jokes they were making. The scenery is still imaginative, and the plotlines are still enjoyably ludicrous. Some of the puzzles are bonkers, but the environments are still small, so they're not too bad.

What you get with this game: a modern milestone of the point-and-click genre that has ushered in an all too short lived new golden age of adventure games. Gone are the odd repetitions of Season 1, every episode has their own new places to explore and characters to meet. Season 2 has a much more pronounced story arc and ends on two very high notes. I was and still am sceptical about episodic gaming on the whole, but Sam and Max Season 2 has sold the entire concept to me. What you get with the Remaster: everything you could wish for in a Remaster ever. New control options, re-framed scenes for a more immersive sense of place and a more P&C feel, new character models to fit in better with Steve Purcell's original sketches (they reinstated the keychain in Jurgen's nipple ring, watch out for that). New emotion animations, character outlines, higher resolution of environmental details, some recreated assets. A new lighting system gives each episode much more of an original mood. Re-choreographed cutscenes, an estimated 20 minutes of new, fully orchestrated music by the original composer. Less compressed music and voices. This is how a Remaster is done. What you don't get with the Remaster: „censorship“ of any kind. Even the pidgin speaking sea-mian Rastafarian boneheads in Moai Better Blues are still in there unaltered and cringey racist as ever, if that's your cup of Banang (personally, I would have re-voiced those, sorry folks). Bosco's voice actor changed, but his lines remain the same (apparently Telltale Games became more culturally sensitive between 2006 and 2007 already, who would have guessed?). The original voice actor Joey Camen can still be heard a whole lot in at least three additional roles, one of which was „censored“ already in the original 2008 release. What I'd like to add: I happen to know that a GOG employee has explicitly asked the developer for Season 2 to release here. I'd just like to say to this gal or guy, you're awesome and thank you so much.