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I’m all for ambitious, envelope-pushing stories in adventure games. They keep the genre from getting stale. If developers were content to simply rest on their laurels, we’d still be exploring mundane, endless caves with criminally under-developed characters. Fortunately, as exciting as big cave exploration is, the stories in adventure games have moved far beyond their […]

Games, as with musicians and models, seldom age gracefully. Modern adventure gamers are thrown into a deluge of orchestral scores, voiceovers, polygonal protagonists, and increasingly high-resolution graphics. Thus, it is a pleasant surprise when a classic adventure game manages to come off as quaint, not dated; refreshing, not stale. The Legend of Kyrandia does just […]

Sequels tend to have a bad rap. Maybe it isn’t fair. But let’s face it, The Land Before Time MCXIV just didn’t have the same spark and flavor of the first installment. And don’t get me started about Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge. Thank goodness The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate doesn’t fall into this […]