I originally had this game on I don't know how many cd's. the cd's died before I finished the game, and so I was overjoyed to get this one on GOG. One of the finest games of the genre, puzzles which are not impossible, but not too glaringly obvious, a fascinating story line, a sense of humour, magnificent ambience, original. I find most games slightly disappointing, I will play anything, but soon forget the most games. This is a game I remember, and the ending. Normally games end all of a sudden with a cut scene which makes me feel that I spent a lot of effort getting nowhere. I truly enjoyed the end of this game, I think the best way to describe this game is to say that it was satisfying to play, and satisfying the ending.
As a middling aged point and click veteran, it was lovely to get back to the genre with the same humour, tongue in cheek exposition, and lovingly created artwork. Unlike many P&C's you didn't get caught up in ridiculous finicky puzzles, but therein lies my only complaint. It was at times too obvious, too lineal. As the game progressed there was a little more meat to the puzzles, but generally it was just a case of playing through doing the obvious. I highly recommend the game to any fans of the genre, but more for the joy of pointing and clicking then for a serious challenge to the mental processes, although newer generations unused to the devilishness of zork and the like may find this quite complicated enough, you never know.
