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Indiana Jones® and the Infernal Machine™

Been waiting for this for years!

Very excited to see this on GOG - it was a game I loved years ago, but had great difficulty finding for sale anywhere. So 10 year old me loved this game enough to still be looking for it 17 years later. And it's held up surprisingly well. The key choice can be a little wonky, the autoaim feature is pretty poor, and you're probably going to get stuck on some random corners. However if you can put up with this its a fun pretty immersive game. The graphics are top of the line for 1999 and still worked well enough to be immersive for me (keep in mind I had a lot of nostalgia going for me here), also it meant that I could play it on my pretty old home computer. One of the biggest issues is that there are occasional bugs, where Indy will get stuck or trapped, occasionally this affects your save file. What I did for this was I keep a couple (3) save files and rotated through. On a full play through this problem only happened twice, but it would've been annoying to replay the chapter on those occasions. The level design is kinda cryptic, you'll often be wandering around for quite a while trying to work out what to do, only to find doing something completely random opens a door, or there's a whippable post above you somewhere ('Hmmmm, that thing looks whippable'). I enjoy this kind of gameplay, but if you especially don't like the feeling of being frustrated this might not be the game for you. The levels are varied and I found them beautiful (though keep in mind 1999 graphics) and a lot of fun to explore, they're very warreny and poking around in new rooms and areas is half the fun of this game for me. Compared to the other Indy games I've played (Emperor's Tomb, Fate of Atlantis) I found this one felt like a much bigger world, the other two felt more planned out and single corridory (though still very fun)

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