I played Full Throttle more or less at the time when it first came out. A friend handed it over, we were 9 years old or something like that. Well, it didn't stick to my mind as much as other games from the period like Monkey Island, or the slightly-more-recent Grim Fandango and Discworld Noir (check that out, if you find it!) Replaying it 20+ years after I remembered why. First of all: the game is extremely cool. Just not in a way that entices me a lot. I never cared much for biker's stories, nor road movies, nor stuff like that. But I reckon that the story is simple yet effective and that the music really conveys the right atmosphere, a mixture between country and hard-rock / metal. The graphics are a bit worse in my opinion: the character design is alright but for example I don't like the general palette (all that violet...). The remastering is quite good, allowing one to switch back and forth from the original graphics to the new one with a button, and one can easily see that the original style has been kept quite faithfully; only, it looks a tiny little bit less gloomy and more colorful now (not as much as the remaster of the first Gabriel Knight though). But not much was added and everything looks quite static. The game itself, however, has some annoying parts such as the bike fights, a cool idea very poorly implemented, or even the ending section, that I'm not going to spoil here but that felt really like an anti-climax in terms of gameplay. The only really cool enigma I found was the bunny part. Also, the game is VERY short: we're talking about 3-4 hours, which is fine to me but might be unacceptable to others. I grabbed it for free, I played it, it had some nostalgic values, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
The Black Mirror is a classic point-and-click adventure game. You are Samuel Gordon, a young member of an aristocratic English family. Your grandpa passed away in very mysterious circumstances and you want want to uncover the truth. The plot is intriguing, even if the acting and the text are not on the same level. Also the atmosphere is good, dark and gloomy as a story about mysterious murder should be. The graphics is quite nice, even if it is in low resolution, but the 3d characters aged terribly. The music is quite repetitive and boring, but some sound effects are nice. From the technical point of view, I also had problems with the motion of the mouse that was not fluid and a couple of crashes when switching from the game to my browser using alt+tab. But what really drags down this adventure game are game design choices that aged terribly: it is weird, to say the least, that one needs to wander aimlessly for twenty minutes to solve a puzzle; it is even weirder that one can die and be sent back to the main menu for actions with unpredictable consequences (realistic, if you want, but not enjoyable); and the interface is just plain bad. Oh, and the game is SLOOOOOOW. You need to wait for all the slow animations to finish before interacting with any people, the protagonist walk slowly, and there is a lot of travelling between the places you can visit. Last word: It is a mildly entertaining adventure game that lasts around 15 hours, with a nice plot, but terribly old mechanics. If you are into the mystery murder-horror mindset, I would suggest you to play Still Life instead (the prequel Post Mortem being nice but very old and the sequel Still Life 2 being just bad).
