Posted on: February 13, 2018
MotherKojiro
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So Much Wasted Potential
I absolutely adored the first Legend of Kyrandia, and the second was very good, too, but this was a disaster. The visuals are still great, aside from some very dated rendered objects, but the places you go are very interesting to look at, and those scenes at the ends of the earth are phenomenally surreal. The music wasn't quite as good, and it has that irritating Red Book Audio thing where the track fades out and starts up again after a short silence, and it wasn't even of a high enough quality that it needed to be Red Book Audio, but it's forgivable. The characters weren't bad, either, even if the consciences are both really annoying, and Malcolm's humor was pretty hit-or-miss. Actually, most of the humor was pretty hit-or-miss, and there was an overabundance of it; too much humor can be annoying if not enough of it is good, and this game certainly straddles that line. What really drags this down is the gameplay. Sure, the others had some obtuse puzzles, but the vast majority of the ones in Malcolm's revenge are straight-up moon logic. Also, they often just won't work, because the game is a little different each time, so you can't really even learn what works and what doesn't by experimentation. If this wasn't enough, you are often required to have certain items, which is normal, but the items you receive from certain piles are also random, so you have to go back and forth, hoping to get what you actually need, and that's only if you already know that that will be! Worst of all, you'll often be randomly yanked out of the middle of the road, wherever you are, to perform some repetitive task, sometimes almost a dozen times in a row before you can continue, and this happens repeatedly; it's like playing with a 5-year-old running the game. If this had some bad enemy-dodging sequences and Lure of the Temptress's abysmal pathfinding AI, it would be drowning in every abominable Point-and-Click Adventure sin I know.
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