Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs

The original game is ok, like a low budget LucasArts style comedy adventure. However the "remastering" is dreadful. The graphics are a mixture of redrawn and simplistically upscaled, including - rather bizarrely - one character with a redrawn head and a blurrily upscaled body. The game engine is buggy and does not properly respect 4:3 resolutions even if you choose them, the result being that you are essentially forced to play in widescreen. This wouldn't be so bad if any care had been taken over the widescreen conversion. There are numerous visual bugs including sprites surrounded by a white box which was meant to be transparent, sprites that are misaligned and end up with a "seam" around them and bugs introduced by the horizontal+ conversion to widescreen. This would have scored better if they'd included the original version as an extra. The remaster allows you to turn off the enhanced graphics but all this does is exchange the upscaled graphics for the originals so it doesn't help with the bugs. The sound is pretty terrible too, with some characters sounding like their clips have been converted to mp3 repeatedly at the lowest quality settings. I'm not sure how this could have occurred because that kind of compression wasn't used in games in 1996 as far as I am aware. My guess is that they've actually applied some noise reduction software in an extremely heavy handed way. Personally I would have preferred noisy voice files as an alternative to the characters sounding like they're under water but maybe that's just me. This is a truly dreadful cash in of a remaster only topped by the Simon the Sorcerer remasters in terms of laziness.

Although this game has some great humour and hilarious situations, it is let down by the slow, clunky interface. The hero takes his sweeeeeet time when moving from location to location and the various animations (eg when you reach the fort) get tiring very quickly. The lack of keyboard shortcuts is a downside and a big negative is the cramped inventory, in which you can only see 5 items, while you have to carry around dozens of items. There are also often situations with obvious solutions that require the unreasonable use of the 'move' verb, instead of the obvious 'pick up' or 'use'. The puzzles are a bit hit and miss and I consider them to be on the difficult side. Although you cannot die or get stuck in this game, there are dialogues with precious clues which disappear after hearing them once, so you had better have eidetic memory or take notes! The graphics are cartoony but the choice of colour makes them tiring to the eyes. There is very little music and the voice acting is ok-ish. Overall, avoid this one, or get it when discounted and have a walkthrough handy.

The 'puzzles' are terrible and mostly guesswork. It has no real jokes but seems to think it's funny.

the game was abandonware not long ago and was running fine in a dosbox. besides the question why galaxy still doesnt run on linux I'm asking myself why even this game does not run on linux according to the system requirements