The good is that it partly keeps in line with the same style of humour as the two first games, the bad is that the switch to 3D was diabolical in every other aspect. Bottom line is, if you put your mind to it you can enjoy the game, but you have to forgive a lot of unnecessary frustrations, bugs, inconsistencies, glitches and nonsensical controls. The worst part of this game is navigation, the controls and how these are used in the game. When they switched to 3D they made the decision to attempt to use this new "perspective" in their puzzles, using depth as part of the puzzles. The puzzles often feel unnecessary; navigate a maze, follow a trail, crawl into holes - puzzles that wouldn't even be puzzles if you had better controls. Random bugs and glitches also makes puzzles unnecessarily difficult to finish. And that is where this game falls so badly compared to its predecessors. So many of the puzzles are challenging just because of the controls the game has. So many puzzles are not clever, don't require much logic or thinking at all, and are based almost entirely on using poor controls to execute seemingly simple tasks. While you have a handful of decent "classic" puzzles scattered around, it would be so much more enjoyable in 2D and without the pointless "3D puzzles". It is painful to play this game while being awfully aware that if it was in 2D you would have a much better time, and a much better game. Yet this is still a Simon game. Simon is still an arrogant and insensetive jerk, Sordid still does things unnecessarily complicated, and Calypso is as unhelpful as ever. I found Simon considerably less witty in this version, but that might just be me. That part - given you can get past the truly horrendous game-mechanics - is still enjoyable. It's just not a very good "game". *SPOILER* I'm also fairly certain the very last puzzle, which is kinda clever, could be a bit difficult to solve on certain modern laptops? *SPOILER*
