There are many good games, but this series kept raising the bar one step at a time, and it did well. Expect minor bugs here and there, although they are few enough to forgive their existence. And play them in the correct order, because it's all part of one story and the building your experience throughout the story helps you advance and enjoy how the details unfold. 1. The Blackwell Legacy puts you in the shoes of Rosa Blackwell, raised by her aunt, knowing very little about her family, and nothing about the "condition" both her aunt and grandmother had. She does get some answer from her new friend Joey, although he's not too eager to share everything up front. This episode is quite a nice warm up of the series. 2. Blackwell Unbound brings you some well deserved answers about Rosa's aunt Lauren, and also about Joey. It's a shorter episode, and the end will probably make you cringe, but it's a great story build-up for the next episodes. You get to know more about what's possible, and the full picture starts to make more sense, and find yourself wanting to move to the next episode to find out what's next. 3. Blackwell Convergence surfaces an old foe that makes Joey spill up some more details about the past. It brings many questions, it raises the stakes and you get to solve an old and complicated case, feeling like you'd put some big things in order in the Universe. And yet, when you think of it, there's got to be more than that, right? 4. Blackwell Deception complicates things even further. As far as Rosa and Joey have gotten, they solve some apparently regular cases only to discover a new type of foes besides one of Joey's old friends. Yeah, imagine that. :P By the end of this episode you're not sure what to expect any longer. You advanced this far and you found out more about the past, but also about a complicated little society of people who were quietly looking for Rosa. Awesome story and characters. Play them in the right order, then get Blackwell Epiphany.
I played the whole series with my wife after I got the taste of the first episode. It's not exactly an intuitive game because it forces you to think like you're not in game, while most games are based on attributes or weapons that better fit various tasks or opponents. With this series, you constantly have to be aware of your capabilities and take advantage of them to achieve something. Just like in real life, distracting people can get you somewhere, and insisting on the same topic will get you valuable information. This is just a little bit about the game's mechanics, which are not unheard of, but the whole story complementing it from the first episode to the last, made it awesome. The order you play the games in, matters. This is it: 1. The Blackwell Legacy 2. Blackwell Unbound 3. Blackwell Convergence 4. Blackwell Deception 5. Blackwell Epiphany Get them all, play them in order, and you'll have a great time. It will probably take you a week to finish them if you play about 3-4 hours every day, or maybe it will take you a bit more if you're not used to this kind of games. But it's not worth rushing it. Every episode is fun, and The Blackwell Epiphany was an amazing ending to the series. It was sad, it was great, it was unexpected - unlike many games and movies you get to see and you've pretty much figured out what would happen in the end. The closing chapter of the Blackwell series stirs your feelings right from Rosa's room, where you got memorabilia from every episode, like a farewell gift to you, that really means something when you've player the previous episodes. The story is longer, more complex, and it surprises you to the very end, both sadly and beautifully. Wow, what an ending... Hats off for the writing! We loved it. :)
I was eagerly waiting for Samorost 3 and considering the other 3 Amanita games I bought have Linux support, I took it for granted that this version would have it as well. I hope it will come soon. For now... I'm terribly disappointed. :( Pretty please!
This game was a lot of fun when it first got out and to my surprise it got even better now. It's nicely polished, it has more effects than I remember it to have back then, and it also works in Linux, with Wine. Awesome! o/
For me, Redline is the game that made me quit Windows 98. It didn't work on Windows XP and I just had to play it again so I removed XP, reinstalled Win98 and went right back in the game. Unfortunately, after being cozy with the stability of Windows XP I felt Windows 98 was crap. I was wondering why I put up with it for so long, so I went back to XP and never looked back. But then I really missed Redline. And now, on GOG! OMG! I didn't see this coming. This is an awesome good old game where you can explore HUGE maps with tight places and wide open areas where you must run for your life or get sneaky and enter a turret to blast some unexpecting players running along. :)) This was so much fun that I'm really ecstatic to see it back alive. Thanks, GOG, and thanks to the developers! :D My only regret is I'm on vacation on a dial-up connection and I can't even touch the game. Wow! This boosted the happiness of my vacation! :)) I hope it will works well on Linux too. o/ YAY! o/
