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A blog about all aspects of PC gaming: commercial, shareware and freeware. My tastes tend to veer towards adventure games and RPGs, but I'll give pretty much anything a go. New games or retro, they'll all get a mention. First impressions, mini-revie
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PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 5 - Rise of the Pirate God
The final act in Season One of TellTale Games' Tales of Monkey Island has a lot of references to the very first Monkey Island Game (Secret of Monkey Island), which fans of the series will definitely enjoy. In terms of the plot, Guybrush Threepwood h...
PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3: The Lair of the Leviathan
Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3: The Lair of the Leviathan cleans up a few of the problems that were rearing their heads in episode 2, though I didn’t think it was quite as good as episode 1. Guybrush is trapped inside a giant manatee with his Fi...
PC Game Review - Tales of Monkey Island Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay
Tales of Monkey Island Season One, Episode Two (The Siege of Spinner Cay) carries on directly where the first one episode left off – with Guybrush held at sword-point on his own shop. The fact that the owner of this sword turns out to be, among ot...
PC Game Review - Keepsake
Set in a school where all the students have mysteriously disappeared, a young woman who should be starting her training must discover the secrets of a strange academy - and the plot that has engulfed it. After briefly being introduced to the basic ga...
PC Game Review - Full Throttle
Full Throttle is one of the games that comes from what it commonly known as LucasArts' "golden age" of adventure gaming, and has a sizeable cult following - maybe not quite on the scale of Monkey Island's fan base, but still impressive. For this reas...
PC Game Review - Wallace & Gromit Grand Adventures Episode Two: The Last Resort
The second episode in TellTale Games' Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures, entitled "The Last Resort", brings to fruitition much of the potential shown, but not realised, by the first episode ("Fright of the Bumble Bees"). Everything about this se...
PC Game Review - Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
Following on from the first Runaway game, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle is another traditional point and click adventure game that follows the adventures of Brian Basco and Gina Timmins. Well. That is to say Gina is in the game a tiny bit - whe...
