Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Just a wonderful classic adventure game. I'd like to recommend this to anyone that hasn't played it, but the sound quality is terrible and cannot be fixed. It truly spoils the experience. Constant clicking and popping during speech leaves the player either having to turn off all speech or simply endure it, and the speech is half of the appeal in this title. Until they bother to fix it, just avoid it or watch a longplay.

I picked this up because I enjoyed Broken Sword 1 and thought it would be similar. Unfortunately, the graphics are so low resolution it was causing eye strain. After getting frustrated I consulted a guide and discovered I'd missed several items hiding as a pixel in the background. First I had to use the "look" icon, then the "open" icon, then the "take" icon, on a pixel. Don't buy this. Get the newer version. Your eyes will thank you.

For the time, this ws some super high quality story telling & a solid engine. However, it continued with the pixel-hunting trend & the "just try everything with everything" brute force approach of the genre. Also, the well-worn "good hearted womanizer" hero & "spunky, streetwise, acid tongued" assistant were old & repulsive even then.

I was looking forward to being able to play this game but the quality of the graphics are so bad, it's making it difficult for me to see exactly what I'm trying to do.

Although the game did have alot of character depth, there wasn't any exciting twists or turns.