Archives for: May 2007, 31

It's like the end of an era!!

I thought that Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die was amazing.

I thought that Episode 5: Reality 2.0 was an absolute high-point in gaming.

I was not prepared for Episode 6: Bright Side of the Moon

What a hope-inspiring image :D Featured just before the most amazing credit sequence Sam and Max has ever had!

Telltale cleverly set up the whole series and blew it out of the water with this amazing finale to the six-episode stint

But the majesty of Sam & Max is that any adventure with them is about as random as the beginning of a Simpson's episode, so Telltale should never run out of ideas. And I believe they have plans for a second season -they better do!

One thing that really shows from this experience is that episodic content does work really well -as long as you've got a much loved ip- so it's quite a shame that David Cage was made to create a whole game of Fahrenheit as opposed to episodes, which is what he really wanted to achieve.

For the finale of Sam & Max they seriously raised the bar, the episode was hilarious, with many strange goings on - Bosco's mum, the Queen of Canada, a game with the perfect AI, Max's bad habits running amock, the head of Abraham Lincoln on a date with Sybil, and the highly entertaining circus torture attraction!.

Episode 6 is hands down, now my favourite episode, if only for this quote; "It was too short. And not hard enough. I want my money back!" Which had such a cute inclusion into the game, where at the start of the series many similar complaints were made about Sam & Max.

And it ended with one of the best credit sequences so far; better than Ted. E. Bear's mafia song, better than the C.O.P.S song. 'It's a Max, Max, Max, Max World!' together with a cute cutscene going on in the background to conclude the (I wanna say show!) series.

AMAZING! GREAT STUFF, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MORE FROM YOU TELLTALE (YOU TOO DOUBLEFINE)