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Originally Posted by AndreaDraco83

Maybe.



And maybe I can't explain myself.

For the average gamer, it isn't important why the puzzle is there. You're perfectly right, even if you're stating the obvious, since no one ever said that everyone, average gamer or not, should know the reason behind the puzzle.

But, if a writer want to blame it as the final nail in adventure's coffin, or as the landmark of adventure's suicide, or only for ranting about "oh gosh, we wonder why they aren't making these games anymore", the least I can expect is that the above mentioned writer has done some research about the statement is going to make.

Doing this little bit of research, maybe can clarify him that this particular puzzle isn't the final evidence of the supposed death of adventure games, but only a side-effect of the market changes, the changes that were responsible at least of the departure of Sierra (and Lucas, by the way) from the adventure genre.

So, their syllogism (Bad Puzzles are responsible for Adventure's Death; the Cat-Mustache is a bad Puzzle; the Cat-Mustache is responsible for Adventure's Death) is totally wrong. Once we know that that puzzle was the result of personnel cuts + reducing budgets + tentative to speed up the production no matter what, and not a designer's choice, why can we still point it out as one of the reason for "wonder about they don't make this kind of games anymore?".

They didn't want to do these games anymore, so they tried to get quickly rid off the one they were producing at the time, so they manipulated the design to make it quicker and cheaper to produce.

Yes, I get what you're trying to say.
But it's not like it's an article published in NY times accusing gk3 to ruin the adventure genre for everybody else. It's just a random guy ranting on the internet. Personally I didn't even know there were people that had this opinion until now. I just knew that the cat-mustache puzzle was a popular example of a bad puzzle. I get the feeling that you just get overprotective over gk3.