Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle

Interesting and enjoyable at the beginning, complicated and frustrating in the middle, boring before the ending.. and there is no ending... It ends before you fulfill your main objective. Having played Runaway 1 is not necessary as this story is not connected to the previous. Although some characters from Runaway 1 reappear here. Thankfully Runaway 3 is a lot better !! It continues the story of Runaway 2 but in a totally different way.

(GOG keeps saying my review is too long, so...) -Terrible puzzles -No logic -Incredibly slow to carry out any action -Lots of obscure pixel-hunting -Tonnes of backtracking -Lots of crashes -Only pixel-hunting/inventory puzzles In the end, my appreciation of the first game carried me through this game (which just ends, with no conclusion, half way through the adventure) - but it was not fun. If you do buy it, just print out a walkthrough and follow it every step of the way - it'll be a much more pleasurable experience.

I really liked the first part. I heard bad things about the second, and still I bought and played it. I was not really enthused about the game. The story is lame. You don't get to solve the initial problem, the kicker of the game – that's reserved for a sequel. Makes for a frustrating ending. Also, the game flow is bad. You often have to click on objects again after looking at something else or talking to someone, because Brian can't figure out how the thing might be important in the first place. The inventory feels clunky as does the options menu. There is no separate volume control for voice, sound and music. This means that either you have no music at all (at least that's possible!) or you have a hard time understanding the dialogue if you do not want to read the subtitles (which I resorted to). There is no way to skip animated sequences. This is annoying throughout the game, but especially annoying when you need to watch the loooong door-opening animation every fricking time you want to change from one location to the next. As for almost all adventure games: walking speed is too slow. Clunky UI is used to artifically strech the game. Making it less fun and less worth. The game crashes at the most inconvenient times. This means I had to replay a lot, watching all those animated scenes. I made it through though, to prepare me for Runaway 3 – which is supposed to be better. I would not recommend this one, unless you are an adventure game addict.

A very interesting and fun to play adventure game with satisfactorily difficult inventory puzzles, colorful graphics and a suitably zany plotline. However it ends on an abrupt cliffhanger that is only resolved in the next (and final) game in the series.