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Teenagent

Nice adventure from the '90s

The graphics really remembers me the '90s, although I've just checked it and this game got published one year after Day of the Tentacle so it was a bit outdated even at its time. Apart from that, I enjoyed playing it. The story is nothing special but nice, the humor snatched me a smile here and there so I'd say it fullfilled its purpose (can't say the same about many modern games...) and the puzzles are mostly fair although at times a bit counter-intuitive (but I guess they're fine for the '90s). The only real issue is that sometimes it's required to go pixel-hunting (always hated it). Maybe a bit short (only 3 locations: the training camp, the village and the mansion) but not by much) but overall a more than decent game. Surely, it's worth its price (which is free, so you can't really complain... :P).

1 gamers found this review helpful
Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition

How can this game cost so much?

Really. This game is yet another fpg from the nineties. It should be free. How they can possibly charge you 20€ (15€ with discount, watch out!) for it? All relevant games from that era have got an engine port already, with tons of mods, level packs and whatsoever for free so, again: how can they possibly charge money for this? New levels? Multiplayer? You must be kidding me! It's not even among the most memorable of the bunch, I mean, it comes after Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem... All of them can be basically played for free. This: 20€ please. Ah! C'mon...

11 gamers found this review helpful
Ape Out

A game with vinyl!

You're an ape escaping from the cage that goes around smashing whatever gets in its path. You can also grab people and use them as meat shield, but at the end you'll have to throw them away, so you'll end up just throwing people around most of the time. The game concept is quite simple but very funny. Controls are smooth. There are no idle moments, it's pure action. The thing that clearly tells this game apart from the rest is its '70s style: loading screens look like the white noise in those old crt monitors, levels are presented as LP albums (they even have a B side!), music is kind of funky and, each time you blast (or you're blasted by) someone, you can hear the cymbals playing just on time. The game is just what you need to discharge bad moods after a day at the office: half an hour of it and you're reset. Normally, I'm not into action games, but this is just perfect. Can't recommend it more.

1 gamers found this review helpful
The Supper

Short nice demo

The demo is really short and the puzzles are quite straightforward. This said, the graphics are really cute and I loved the settings as well. Since it's free, you can't really complain. I hope some day we'll get a full fledged game out of this.

2 gamers found this review helpful
The Last Door: Season 2 Collector's Edition

Even better than the previous one!

This game won't make much sense to you if you didn't already finish the first season, so I'll assume you did. It has all the qualities of the first one, plus the puzzles are more elaborated and the game itself is slightly longer, so I'd say it's even better. While the first season started strong and got a bit bland towards the end, this has been quite the opposite: the beginning is a bit weak but it gets more and more engaging. Of course, this is a bit subjective and depends heavily on the tastes of everyone, but it's a great adventure nonetheless. Again, the story is not very original in the sense that it takes from well known material (I think I've recognized a bit of Eyes Wide Shut, the Wicker Man and, this time yes, The Call of Cthulhu), but it works pretty well (at least for me). If you already like the first season, there is no reason not to play this as well.

2 gamers found this review helpful
The Last Door: Collector's Edition

Short but beautiful

Wow! What a game... I think I'd better list the "negatives", to better show that actually there are none. First of all, let's be clear: this game is quite short. In fact, I was debating whether or not to give 5 stars only because of this. In the end, I think the price is fair for what you get (especially if you buy it on sale), so 5 stars are well deserved. Secondarily, this is more of a graphic novel (although "graphic" may seems a stretch in this particular case...) than a true point-and-click adventure, in the sense that the game is easy. Puzzles are not really challenging, I got stuck only once just because I overlooked a dialog option. Nonetheless, I think it's fine: if you were to spend too much time between one step and the other, you'd loose all the immersion. Because this game is all about immersion. In fact, I've finished it in one day but not in one seat. I had to take a break from time to time because it was "too much" to bear at once. About the graphics, many people find them ugly, others say they contribute even more to the immersion. Personally, I was a kid when CGA was a thing and I don't remember even 320x240 to be so poorly detailed. I believe they went a bit too far with it but, even so, it serves the purpose indeed. Lastly, the story itself is not very original: I could recognize references to Edgard Allan Poe (not Lovecraft, as some may say), Dead Poets Society, The Name of the Rose, a bit of The Shining and even Donnie Darko. If you're Italian like me, you may see a hint of Profondo Rosso as well (although developers have all Spanish names, so I may be making this one up) and I'm sure more enfranchised people will find even more references. Nonetheless, the story is very well narrated and all this tropes blend into each other seamlessly. In fact, this "lack of originality" may as well be seen as a "wise use of what works instead of trying something new that may or may not be worth it".

2 gamers found this review helpful
Strange Horticulture

Great game, low replayability

WARNING: If you're the hardcore gamer that likes the challenge for the sake of it, this game is not for you. This is a game where you take your time solving puzzles and enjoying the story. Relaxing. The puzzles are clever and, although the always follow the same schema, they never feel repetitive. They are challenging enough, but never unfair. You'll never really get stuck anywhere, since there is a clue system and, when you "die" (you never really die in this game), it's juts another puzzle before you can get back on track. The story is quite interesting. For those who read the Spook's Apprentice novels, the setting will look very familiar. There are several endings, where you basically choose which side you want to stand for, although you won't really replay the game to see them all. The problem is: aside from a few path branching in the storyline, the game doesn't really change much. The puzzles are the same, the plants are all the same etc. By adding some randomness (plants changing name, colors etc. characters showing in a pseudo-aleatory order, kind of side quests etc.), the game's replayability will have improved a lot. to Hence my 4 stars instead of 5.

3 gamers found this review helpful
Ultima™ 4+5+6

Ultima VI alone is worth the whole pack

I had a blast playing Ultima VI when I was a kid. This game is huge, especially for its time, an open-world RPG before open-world RPGs were even a thing. You can explore the world, farm goods in the villages, fight monsters in the dungeons, all or none at the same time. There are many sub-quests, some of them you won't even know they exist, some others you'll be in and you won't even notice. Characters have all their back-stories, their daily routine, at dawn they get up, they go to work, at noon they have lunch, at night they go to sleep etc. All in in-game "real"-time. Of course, the game is very old, but you will be surprised by how playiable is still nowadays. Graphics are passable, but you can find mods to increase the resolution etc. Unfortunately, I've never played Ultima IV and V (they're too old, even for me! XD), so I cannot speak of them.

12 gamers found this review helpful