Detective Gallo is very good and fun. The story with ridiculous and pretty funny. Characters and voice casts are good. But it is a little buggy. - Audio can be laggy/unclear especially in intro cutscene. - Game hangs sometimes, locking the entire desktop, and making it very difficult to kill the task (task manager is hidden behind the stuck game). In addition, savegames are huge for some reason (likely bad implementation). This makes cloud sync difficult and prone to failure.
Truberbrook is not terrible, but is seriously below average. - The story is bland - Characters are uninteresting - Some of the puzzles are badly designed - English voiceover could be better - Gameplay controls could be seriously improved: Use of right-mouse button for instance. - They way you use items lacks a sense of adventure. If you have the right item, you automatically have the option to use it. There's no need to figure out what needs to be done which is a big part of point & click games. - No item description in inventory: you have to remember what the character said, based on the item icon.
I didn't get far in the game: barely 2h. But the experience was terrible. The reason: extremely poor save system. The game saves only when you manually dock into town: which is fine. However, if you are docked automatically as part of a mission (let's say deliver something), it doesn't count. There are no checkpoint saves as you progress through the story, and you can't skip cutscenes (only dialogues). So, if you go back in time (failed mission for instance) you have to sit through the cutscenes over and over. On top of that I've lost my progress several times. Save games would simply disappear when I start the game. Luckily I also backup manually, but this definitely shouldn't happen.
The game is great overall: - story is fun, not the best of the series, but very decent - puzzles are good, generally simpler than previous titles, and there are some interesting new ideas that worked well But - I'm not a fan of the visual style: I much prefer the Special Edition's (previous titles) - The Trivia game (can be ignored) is rather annoying and contains minor spoilers of things to come: questions about stuff that appear later in the game. And where is the porcelain?
A game title has never described it so well. It's beautiful: really lots of areas, beautifully designed. It's a desolation: these areas have very little to do in them. 1 or 2 interaction points at most. And since a lot of the areas are quite large, you spend your time walking around to locate the points to interact with. In addition there's a lot of back and forth resulting in time spent navigating between areas. On top of that, on the puzzles' side, it's unfortunately a bit lacking: it mostly consists of the previously mentioned back and forth. As for the story and the characters, they are really weird and sometimes feel off. Finally, the mini-games are seriously tedious, if not horrible.
