Having played the 7th Guest back in the day (on CD-i nonetheless) I was absolutely captured by the atmosphere the original game set. Sadly, after 11th Hour the series went away and I haven't heard anything back from Trilobyte, there were some talks of a 7th Guest III but that kickstarter sadly went nowhere. When I first heard about this fangame I was naturally sceptical at first but I have to be honest: It definitely exceeded my expectations, it was as if I was playing an actual sequel to the series. The hammy acting, the mood and atmosphere it sets. It's all wonderful. If I have to give it a major flaw it's that it's possible for you to miss puzzles. (Like the 'escape' one in Tad's file in your office to name just one example) although I'm sure this also gives people a lot of replay value to try and see what they missed. As a puzzle game, I really loved how forward the puzzles were, one thing that frustrated me in the 7th Guest and 11th Hour were that some of the puzzles essentially involved moon logic. (The soup can puzzle anyone?) In any case, I had a lot of fun tinkering with the puzzles in this game as some of them were indeed difficult but very cleverly designed. Would love to see this team tackle other games.
Being a fan of 3d platformers like Rayman2 + 3 and having finished the Spyro: Re-ignited Trilogy, I'm always looking for more fun platform games to play. At first I wasn't too sure about getting this game as homebrew Unity games are usually very cookie-cutter with not a lot of (or extremely forced) personality. (Skylar and Plux definitely comes to mind on that last part) I was pleasantly surprised however when I played New Super Lucky's Tale. Yes it's simple and very pick up and play but that's also one of its greatest strenghts in my humble opinion. The graphics are nice, the characters are naturally bouncy and charming (without it being pushed in your face constantly like some other game devs tend to do.) I'm definitely having some great fun so far. So, are you a fan of platform games? Do you like the charm that Mario- and Spyro games have? In that case I can highly recommend this game for people looking for more of that. Best of all, since this is GOG: It's DRM-Free, meaning I can run and launch it on my GPD Win2 without having to log in or set (for example: Steam) to "run offline", then log-out & log-in later just to play one or two games. One downside that I have to name (and that's probably just me) for some reason on my GPD Win2 (Handheld Windows10 PC) when I use the build-in controller it seems like the game constantly drops input (as if in the background its constantly losing the controller's connection) so Lucky runs and then suddenly stops, misses inputs and etc. etc. I don't have this problem with any other (Unity) game so I don't know how or why this happens, though when I physically connect an Xbox360/XboxOne controller it works perfectly fine, so I'm not sure what's up. Might want to keep that in mind for those looking to play this game on-the-go. (Again, It might be something on my end, which is why I put this here 'just-in-case' I'm being a doofus. :P) In conclusion: For €30,- this fun little platformer is well worth the price. :3
