Finished the game in "Easy" Mode after about eight hours of game time at 4 AM, still playing on "Hard" mode. Excellent voice acting, beautiful artwork, good puzzles. Switching between and coordinating characters keeps you moving even if you get stuck with a single character for the moment. The "easy" mode is a bit too straightforward at times, makes some screens quite pointless and even omits a few whole screens from the story line. The "hard" mode requires a lot of thinking. The engine is capable of effects like moving grass or even tilting screens, but this is only used in very few screens. Also there are no "huge" animated cutscenes. Some screens are so tidy, they have a somewhat "clinical" look to me. Looking at the credits I'm surprised that so few people could pull off a game of this magnitude! Still laughing about all the books and phone numbers. I didn't give the fifth star because the story didn't really captivate me, and the humor in the story itself could not make up for it. The connection between the five actors is not always really clear and they are not even always introduced to each other, for example it is not really clear to me why Ransome the Clown readily cooperates with the others, and sometimes you have to give an item to a character who doesn't expect to receive it. There are some open questions in the story, and towards the end it goes a bit too much onto a "meta level" and the questions are explained away too easily.
