... because of the controls. Too tanky, too tight. Might be a classic, but aged like milk. Pick up the remaster instead.
One of the weirdest, confusing (thanks to the puzzles), yet atmospheric, well drawn graphics, and storywise the most closest attempt to think this was written by Haruki Murakami, writer of many magical surreal stories like Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Forest, and the 1Q84 trilogy. The story weird, it goes on and on, like an episodic TV series, doin' your tasks, which sometimes ends pretty "interesting". Also the puzzles most of the time don't make sense in regular P&G games, but it does in a Murakami way - that makes game charming. The story is incredibly Murakami like; even has the same themes in said writer: mucis, cats, being alone, ect. I also found different than most game in genre is the lack of option to choose lines, to get more informations, important or not. It's just one single line, and figure out what have to do. Of course, some cases you get 3, and the last one tells it, the 1st two just... hints. What also weird for me, is the basic "look-at/speak/interact" part: some are can be automatically interacted, without giving any clue what's that and what the player suppose to do with it. What really bugs me more, is that you can't reach some part of the game, because it doesn't use it, and also has some missed opportunity too, but those are so irrelevant it doesn't need any explonation. Let's just say, it makes the game's world tiny. Most of the time you have to go back and forth each part of the game, and if the jobs done there, it closes. The OST - if we can really speak about OST - not bad, but most of 'em actually background noises, and that's it. Not really much, but I can't say "more than 15". The graphics are okay, looks pretty good, not as way cartoony like many other title in the genre, but still catches the eye, paying attention to it. Same goes to animation too. Overall: a must-play one, weird, sometimes confusing and frustrating, play this only, if you not only into P&C games, but also fan of Murakami's works. Otherwise: stay away.
