Posted on: June 26, 2025
themaestro13
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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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