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Posted on: February 26, 2025
GloodyDoo
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 9
It's Sam and Max
Great remaster, nothing else to be said. If you like Sam and Max, just buy it (it also comes with the original version)
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Posted on: June 26, 2025
themaestro13
Games: 265 Reviews: 2
Best of the original with less jank
Don't read too much into the overblown controversy of "censorship" . A dozen lines changed and a voice actor changed. Review bombing a game over that is just internet culture wars at its finest (especially when it's the original devs revising their own work, so who's getting censored exactly). This is still a series where a whole episode is about assassinating Abraham Lincoln, a tourrete's kid comically curses out his mother, and there's an extended dance number about how much the US government loves war. You even get the originals on purchase with zero changes. The remasters themselves are a substantial improvement. I always enjoyed the originals but they're some of the jankiest point and clicks ever published. I recently replayed Save the World - it got pretty embarrassing. Ugly 3D models, characters changing voices randomly, characters getting stuck in t-poses, etc. There's an early game-breaking bug I always forget about where a critical character disappears and you have to click on a specific spot on a door for them to reappear. The games always had great dialogue and jokes, but the jank was unbearable. So these games desperately needed a remaster. And they've largely seen across the board improvements. Look at any two comparison screenshots and tell me the visuals aren't substantially better. Many of the horrible bugs are gone. I feel like I'm playing a completely new Sam and Max adventure and it's great. That said, the usability is slight downgrade. Better graphics means more visual noise, so interactions become harder to find. These games have 1-2 infuriating puzzles per chapter and that's made a bit worse. Also the inventory system is twice as cumbersome and in these games that adds up to hundreds of unnecessary clicks. For some reason, running is always faster when using keyboard than with the mouse. The remasters are a big net positive but the games feel like they needed a little extra polish to hit their full potential.
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Posted on: December 29, 2022
Illiad.Odyssey13
Games: 147 Reviews: 1
Pretty good
Just to get this out the way, the complaints about censorship are not deserving of any attention. The degree to which the game's dialogue and voice acting are different from the original source material is completely inconsequential. To be honest, I thought the new VA did the part perfectly and I very much enjoyed their performance. Now that I've covered that, here are some thoughts about the game (and I'll try and cater to newer players a bit here). The gameplay is simple and easy to understand, which makes it no problem for new players. I often used a mouse to move, since I needed to click on items on screen anyway, but it was nice to have the option of keyboard movement. The visuals are the best they've ever been, and the redesigns are more faithful to the original comic book art style of Purcel's work. Given the fact that this is about a pair of anthropomorphic animal detectives, this was a good touch. It's certainly worth playing the remaster over the original just for the visuals. One thing I will say is that it is really challenging at times. I had to peek at a walkthrough once or twice and I would have liked to see some kind of hint system throughout the game. Of course, there is something similar to that in episode 6, which was helpful. Nevertheless, I thought it was a pretty good, challenging game and it's worth your time and money.
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Posted on: March 19, 2022
MotherKojiro
Games: 481 Reviews: 196
Takes a Bit to Get Going
This Point-and-Click Adventure is separated into 6 short episodes, but despite the annoyance of having to exit and rerun the launcher each time, losing all of your settings, it's pretty good. The first 2 are a bit lacking, but after that, the humor really ramps up. Each episode has a small area to explore, so puzzles and solutions usually aren't too overwhelming. The different locales get to being pretty imaginative, too. It does have its share of bugs, but nothing game-breaking.
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Posted on: April 21, 2022
PanzerFranzz
Games: 1491 Reviews: 35
Censored
The remake is censored ... I LOVED the original, but they ruined it with censorship. Sad day for fans.
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