A pair of luminous, spectral ‘ghost moths,’ one pink and one blue, emerge from its proboscis, entwined in a musical dance. My brief concerto awakens the moth, and boy, it is lit. As the vibrations fade away, I put my magic horn to my lips and play back the tune. Eventually, they start to resonate, deeply and musically. It would tower over me if it weren't unconscious, but it is, and so I tweak one of its antennae, just to see what will happen. Andy's review offers an illuminating picture: Released: 2016 | Developer: Amanita Design | Buy it: GOG, Steam, Humble StoreĪ surreal exploration game filled with quizzical vignettes, Samorost 3 is something to dive into without asking for too much explanation. It lacks the depth of stuff to point and click on that Sam & Max Hit The Road offered, but what it has is always worth seeing. It all just flows, the vivid cartoon graphics making the setting feel far larger than simply one house, and a huge cast of crazy and recurring characters across the three time periods ensuring there’s always something new to be discovered or a new joke to find. Thus is the evil Purple Tentacle slowly defeated, even as you walk round the future he’s conquered. It’s the ultimate puzzlebox: three characters in past, present and future worlds working together on headscratchers such as putting a bottle of wine from the future into a time capsule in the past so that hundreds of years later it becomes vinegar and can then be sent back.
Day of the Tentacle doesn’t have too much in the way of story, but no other game has quite encapsulated everything else so well. What is an adventure game? It’s a question many people have a different answer for, but it’s usually based on a love of story, of comedy, of puzzles, of character, of writing, of stepping into a different world for a while and seeing something new. Released: 1993 (original) | Developer: LucasArts | Buy it: GOG, Steam, Humble Store (Remastered version)
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