[twillight]

I knew from first hand experience this is not the game it was hyped to, still a disappointment.


For the first half of this thing the lack of a map is a real issue for the player, as they don't have the knowledge of their character, what stinks. The worse thing is, the game is trolling you, teasing with a solution, while executing another. Still, this part is survivable if you make some notes what your goals are.
Then comes the pixelhunting, quicktime events, and straight out BS. And the incosistent lore, like it's a big deal skellyies don't drown because no lungs - but then how are they smoking? This gets a real problem when you get in HL's casino, and the game straight out tells you, Manny won't change clothes, because the previous set stinks. Because you walked through the sewers this makes sense. What does NOT makes sense, that you have to go back to the sewers. And the new cloth somehow won't get stinky. My arse. This is just bad design.
For the puzzles the really bad designs start with opening the door to Meche. There is just no way anyone guessed it out without a walkthrough. And the puzzle-design rly gets worse from there. Puzzles for puzzles sake, Sierra-style. And that method killed Sierra when it because so obvious it hit everyone on the nose in Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria. It was bad there, it is bad when Lucasarts did it too.


The whole story could have been a great animated movie. But as a game - it's annyoing, frustrating, disappointing, tedious, and overal not fun to play. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel about this mess.


Lastly: where are the people from this thing? Very Escape from Monkey Island syndrome.