[DustyShinigami]

Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

Positives:

+ A fantastic and well written script/story where its themes have been thoroughly researched
+ Interesting characters with plenty of background
+ A control scheme - moving the camera around the environment with the keyboard whilst interacting with objects with the mouse - that works quite well
+ A beautiful and atmospherically composed musical score
+ Puzzles are generally logical and well put together. Added to this...
+ Le Serpent Rouge is a brilliant and well put together puzzle
+ SIDNEY is a great tool to use
+ Voice acting is generally good
+ Plenty of locations to visit and explore, which contain a lot of details and events in each time-block
+ Humorous in places
+ Loads of easter eggs and secrets present throughout the game
+ Ending is bittersweet

Negatives:

- 3D graphics/models are blocky and ugly even at the time of release
- A few silly/illogical puzzles
- Tim Curry's voice acting can be a little grating/overdone at times
- Suffers from bad frame rates when moving the camera around. Graphical glitches in places
- Game has an annoying habit of setting my graphics setting to 'Software Renderer' whenever i reload saved data
- Very easy to miss events (and the full score), in each time-block, unless equipped with a walkthrough
- Timed/action sequences at the end are frustrating

Overall: 4/5