Three stars is a bit harsh but the reputation of the series calls for some amount of harshness. All in all, BS III is the least one out of the three. Unlike what I expected, it wasn't the graphics or the controls or anything like that. The story starts out really good, with a nice murder investigation, and some great locations. Midway the game falls completely flat on its face, with a ridiculous repetition of create-moving puzzles and way-too-simple adventuring. The game also isn't "snappy" enough to push those slow-moving and tedious parts of it into the background of the experience. Although it has to be said that backtracking is never really demanded of the player so solving the puzzles isn't too frustrating. In fact, the puzzles are often too easy. It's a nice adventure game, but somehow you can feel that things were either too ambitious and never fully developed, or not ambitious enough, during the development.
