A really sweet and lovely experience in roughly movie length :)
If you like dark humour, have a love-hate relationships to parties and party culture and pixelart is your thing? I think it's well worth the time
I played it for the first time in 2025 with the sneaky upgrade Mod, and I have to say, I definitely liked the game! Sometimes it's a bit too glitchy/buggy and I think the new devs didn't nail the tone of the first two games perfectly, and sometimes I felt the story was a BIT off, but overall I think they delivered a good sequel with a good story and satisfying ending.
I played it this year, 2025, for the first time and I found it to be as great as everyone says, good story, interesting characters, Garrett is likeable and the gameplay is fantastic. I find it particularly stunning how the plot of a technology-cult hijacking a corrupt government seems to be timeless
Fantastic game and more relevant than ever. What I found the most impressing was, how the writers managed to combine absolute trash b-movie like elements with genuine narrative depths and interesting characters.
I joined P&C adventures roughly a decade later with "Broken Sword", which defined t he genre for me, since then I played a lot of other more or less modern P&C adventures; so I can't enjoy Maniac Mansion how it would have been at the time, in the 1980s within a less defined genre (Except maybe for Sierras stuff). So I can see why it has become so popular, but I have to admit that it was just mildly entertaining for me. Still fascinating as a piece of Gaming history.
For years I heard great things about the old Thief games, still I first got around to play Dishonored in 2012 and then a few years later the Thie reboot. (I still like Dishonoered a lot, the reboot was boring though) And now, finally, I got around to play Thief Gold and OH WOW WHAT A GREAT GAME! I love the atmosphere, the worldbuilding, the character was also really likeable and the plot interesting. But really, the mood is what makes this game so fantastic. So eventhough I only played it now, in 2025, for the first time, it became one of my favourite games.
A wonderful artstyle, graphics engine and soundtrack in addition to a very intriguing worldbuilding and start of a story. However, the gameplay is very unbalanced, so much so that even I care about it; and usually I don't. Enemies respawn after loading a saved game within a dungeon, the dialouges are all extremely short, the combat is tiring and grindy except if you go for exploits, and so on. It's a case in which I wish I could love this game but I can't
I had a lot of fun palying this really pretty, and relaxing, game. The soundtrack and artbook included in this version are imo worth it. The only thing I'm missing is something like an actual narrative/story.
I found the story itself to be nice, but not mindblowing or deeply engaging; however the way the story is told, the overll amtosphere which switches between cozyness and almost creepy really capitvated me.
