[Intrepid Homoludens]

Ryan, cool it with the name calling, please. We don't do that in this community.

Sorry you didn't like it, RockNFknRoll, but Ryan has a point. Though you're one of the many detractors, it is considered one of the strongest series in the adventure game genre. I played the first one and even wrote a dissertation on the game's symbolisms, but I tend to agree with some of your feedback on it. The gameworld, I found, was annoyingly sterile, replete with many things to interact with (a trend in the genre in recent years, they're so damn stingy). The graphics are gorgeous and the character design, to some extent, is pretty decent.

Still, as mentioned, it's one of the more critically acclaimed adventure games of its time.