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by Martin Mulrooney | 14/08/2024 · 11:59 pm

GAME REVIEW – Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered (PC and PlayStation 4)

By Marty Mulrooney

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered is a five-episode point-and-click adventure game (collected here as a complete package) starring everyone’s favourite six-foot-tall canine detective in a suit and his hyperkinetic rabbity-thing sidekick. Following on from Skunkape Game’s previous remasters of Sam & Max Save the World in 2020 and Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space in 2021, this third and final season of Sam & Max dusts off the original 2010 release from the Telltale Games archives and brings it bang up to date for modern PCs and consoles in 2024.

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by Martin Mulrooney | 17/06/2024 · 11:27 pm

GAME REVIEW – The Night Is Grey (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

The Night Is Grey is a 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Whalestork Interactive, a five-person team based in Portugal. As the first game developed by the studio, it’s nothing if not ambitious; featuring hand-drawn characters animated at 12 frames per second (the same framerate as the original Broken Sword), with over 50 digitally painted, fully animated panoramic backgrounds, this is an indie game that immediately stands out from the crowd with its striking visual presentation.

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by Martin Mulrooney | 17/10/2023 · 9:25 pm

GAME REVIEW – Midnight Girl (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

Midnight Girl is a 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by Italic ApS, a Copenhagen-based indie game company founded by Thomas Ryder and Camilla Pedersen. Set in France during the mid-1960s, players take control of late-teen tomboy Monique, an amateur cat-burglar living in Paris who ends up crossing paths with a legendary thief called The Night Owl.

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by Martin Mulrooney | 11/09/2023 · 8:08 pm

GAME REVIEW – The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a surreal point-and-click adventure game created by artist, 2D animator and director Nacho Rodríguez, previously the animation director of Ubisoft’s gamified, connected program O.zen. Described by publisher Meridiem Games as ‘a new take on the adventure game genre that will appeal to veteran players and newcomers alike’, players must take control of Mr. Coo in a strange and nonsensical world as he tries to find the three pieces of his body that have become separated – his head, torso and legs – and put himself back together again.

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