It isn't without it's faults, but I love The 7th Guest. If this was jsut a straight release identical to the original I'd have given five stars. My low score is due to the nature of the remaster. It's really bad. They've worked hard to suck out any charm or mood the original game had. The music is choppy, restarts randomly, and often cuts out entirely. Audio cues are out of sync with animations. Animations seem to speed up, slow down, and jitter randomly. Scene transitions have awkward strange pauses while the mouse cursor changes clothes. The screen is cluttered with always on tools and icons which detract from the immersion. It crashed on me several times. Bugs aside, I didn't really recognise any real improvements. The extra content is nice, but in game the improvements are almost universally bad.
I'm not going to play a 2D platformer with an analog stick, and I sure as hell ain't using keyboard. Non-starter.
