First of all, some context. Although I've played many PC games in my youth that were, for want of a better word, point and click games (games from Humongous Entertainment such as putt putt being main examples) I have never played Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion or any of the other classic point and click games of the era. Therefore I came into this game with perhaps a more objective mindset than many others and while I'm happy this game has satisfied so many with nostalgia for the past, this is a deeply flawed game that is unlikely to win over many modern gamers to the charms of the genre, which is a shame, because I think there's a lot of potential here. The major problem is the writing, which simply isn't as funny as it thinks it is. This game isn't being made for children, it's being made for nostalgic adults who've had twenty years of clever post modern writing in games and other media (The Paper Mario games for example, or Deadpool) and may want something more intelligent than this. The plot is full of major holes and the characters are very two dimensional, only Ransome the Clown, who feels like he's wandered in from a much funnier game than this, has an interesting personality, and while I won't spoil the ending of the game here is it a spoiler to say that the game simply doesn't get around to telling you who actually commited the murder you're ostensibly trying to solve? Because that's the sort of thing I'd have liked to know before I spent $20 on this. As for the puzzles, perhaps it's because I played the game in casual mode but I think at least half the items I picked up didn't end up doing anything by the end of the game, and frankly, if you want to bring new players into the genre, you shouldn't lock them into a half finished version of the game with missing puzzles just because they weren't game to attempt the so called 'expert mode' This was a real disappointment, and I won't buy anything from this developer in future. Avoid it.
