Pros: The look and atmosphere from the first game are back. The puzzles are mostly logical and vary from simple to tricky. Good story. Cons: The designers discovered the 3d object viewer and thought it'd make for a better puzzle interface - they were wrong. It sounds good on paper - look at an object, rotate it in the 3d viewer to find one of a few hotspots and then interact with it using items from the inventory. Unfortunately, the system is so laggy (I had no problems running the first game 'Yesterday', which was great) that it makes solving the puzzles a chore. You can slide the mouse while it rotates painfully slowly, then suddenly it speeds up and whizzes past the part you needed so you have to scroll back...painfully slowly). The cut-scene videos also lag behind the audio, with the result that the scene ends before the video has caught up and you're left wondering what all that shouting was about. Then it autosaves so you can't go back and try again. If they'd stuck with the system from the first game, this would be 5 stars. I'm slowly making my way through the game - do so if you have a lot of patience for frustrating mechanics.
This is a point-and-click adventure game in the classic style but with modern (2D cartoon) graphics (see screenshots). The puzzles vary from super-easy to reasonably challenging, none at the super-hard level. The story and characters are engaging and the humour is good without spoiling the atmosphere. My only complaint is that the game is too short. I've bought the sequel since I enjoyed this one so much.
