Having heard long time about LOOM it was only now that I could play it by myself. And I was positively surprised, as it offered several extraordinary ideas I did not find elsewhere: - A music-tunes based adventure: You act magic spells with own music tunes that you learned before. (An approach I did not find in any other adventure. - A point-and-click-adventure where you DON'T collect any item. Its not "collect and combine", but enchanting items to solve puzzles. Also an approach I met owhere else. - A faboulous athmosphere created by subtle and impressive pictures and music that still impressed - Additionally I suppose it was among the first games (1990!) with spoken voices of all actors instead of (or supplemental to) sublines. Loom is a small hidden gem of games that has matured astonishingly good in 25 years. The main and eligible critique was and is the shortness of the game. It felt a bit more like a lengthened Demo than a whole game. But IMHO that critique was more valid in 1990 when the price was around 100 DM (Germany) than now, when it is sold for around 5€, and in sales even less. If you like more experimental games, that use extraordinary trails, you should try loom. And if you know other games that experiments like music tunes as magic spells please let me know so I may try them.
