Posted on: December 3, 2022
Handsome Stranger
游戏: 评论: 19
Took me 20 years, totally worth it, khm.
When I was a kid, I didn’t like being stuck in adventure games , so I often used guides. As I grew older, I realized that this beats the purpose and stopped doing it. Unfortunately, a few great titles fell victim to this bad habit. Not this one. Which says a bit about how motivated I felt to make progress. I played for some hours, put it away for a few months (or years), played some more hours, and so on. Anyway, the reason it took me so long is the poor clue design (always blame the devs). Most puzzles are logical given that you get the clues. And the game provides clues plenty, but these are often one-time dialogues, and usually you don’t realize that it was important, and you cannot revisit it. If you missed them, you are walking around cluelessly (badumtsss) left only with your common sense. And common sense will not get you far in this game. Perhaps this was just a problem for my easily distracted brain. I typically managed to get over an impasse when I started over and realized that some character earlier said something that was a clue. I think, in a good design the state of the world retains such clues. The problem with having tank controls is not that it is bad but rather that it had to pass through many decision makers before it got released. And the remastered mouse controls aren’t flawless either. The inventory is also annoying. The graphic boost is not much either but at least it prevents the game from becoming a pixelated mess on 4k monitors. It would have been good if they re-render the scenes in at least FullHD though. Essentially, from a technological perspective the game is subpar. Some bad ideas were implemented, and some good ones were executed poorly. Story-wise it is a decent noir adventure, at least the first half and the ending. The jokes land quite well too. It’s enough to carry the game on its back. Probably one of the worst Lucas Arts adventure games, but it still beats most adventure games from the last 2 decades.
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