It keep afloat on nostalgia and not particularly anything of its own merit.
After about ten minutes, or that moment in time your right temple is throbbing at yet another shrilling "daddy", this voice actress pretty much single handedly made you rue the fact that you oppose the carrying of firearms in public.
The rest of the game though it looks alright is pretty much stitched together like an old dusty plaid you were forced to sleep under at your grandmother's. I still have no idea what I was doing at the Indian guy's place.
The most, well no the 'only' memorable scenes from the game are not actually from this game.
We visit an Irish pub and castle like layout, not just faintly reminiscent of Broken Sword 1.
We dwell in some cave that has you looking for a figure caught in ice first as it even managed to copy the exact layout of the Indy game.
Furthermore, there are scenes from less well known games such as prisoner of ice, but let's save a few words for the puzzles.
They are the dumbest, most random pieces of filler I've ever encountered.
Sure Monkey Island has some puzzles that seem very random, but most of them had a cleverness in them and you'd go "of course" once you found it., and if there wasn't any link it was at least funny or in some other way rewarding to complete the puzzle. In this game after a few hours you just want to race through the game to finish the story and be done with it. Half of the objects you find you have already used or combined before you have any idea what or why you're doing it and the girl just goes with some flow.
At first the flashbacks to earlier games felt kinda nice, but when you realise it's all that it keeping the keep up and the next best thing is the voice acting of a minor protagonist you'll be seeing for half an hour tops it's sure a let down.
All I can really be thankful for is seeing some scenes of the early days in today's visuals and see all our suspicions confirmed, prettier pictures don't make better games.
and they just don't make them like they used to...regrettably.
And you know the really sad thing is, i'll be giving it a seven, because besides Sam & Max and Longest Journey it's probably the best thing out there...