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I finished Leasure Suit Larry Reloaded. The game is really short. You can complete it in 4 - 5 hours easy. What there is is pretty good, nice graphics and quite funny. This game is simply a remake of the first, and is it’s second remake. The two Larry games by Crazybunch are much better (longer, better plot) and I’d play them first.

Just finished The Wolf Among Us. What a game. What a story. It won some Aggies, all well deserved. Can’t wait for The Wolf Among Us 2, it will be epic.

I really enjoyed Cleo D. It relies a little too much on its own nostalgia for Monkey Island and perhaps Zelda but if you don’t care much about originality, it’s a fun game.

I’ve had lots of fun with Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? FMV, choice-based interactive movie. (IMO this one would be perfect for Mrs Walas.) It’s your job to find out who poisoned Uncle Marcus. It’s actually one big zoom session with 8 members of an incredibly disfunctional family. Unpleasant people, with maybe one or two exceptions. The over-the-top acting is excellent and matches the story perfectly.

You have to play the game many times and develop a different strategy for each family member to get them to open up and give you the info you need. It’s a good thing that the game lets you skip scenes you’ve already watched. Not a perfect game, but very entertaining.

Karlok - 29 March 2022 05:30 AM

I’ve had lots of fun with Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? FMV, choice-based interactive movie. (IMO this one would be perfect for Mrs Walas.) It’s your job to find out who poisoned Uncle Marcus. It’s actually one big zoom session with 8 members of an incredibly disfunctional family. Unpleasant people, with maybe one or two exceptions. The over-the-top acting is excellent and matches the story perfectly.

You have to play the game many times and develop a different strategy for each family member to get them to open up and give you the info you need. It’s a good thing that the game lets you skip scenes you’ve already watched. Not a perfect game, but very entertaining.

I’m playing this game as we speak, You are spot on, I enjoyed reading your comments, the game is very funny, can’t stop playing it, quite addicting.

the genre lives!

I feel a strong urge to comment on the review of Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus. Starting a new thread about a game only two people have showed any interest in is overdoing it, so I’ll vent my criticism here. The AG reviewer didn’t like the game much (2.5 stars), which is of course fine. But I have a problem with his reasons why.

Next to zero actual gameplay. An interactive movie is just that: a MOVIE. The player has a few seconds to influence the story by choosing which cut scene will be shown next. That’s it. So the reviewer is in fact complaining about an IM being an IM. It’s like being disappointed that there isn’t any shooting or platforming in Monkey Island.

Everything is guesswork and trial and error, and there’s never a way of knowing what result an answer will trigger. Yes, you watch scenes first and then decide if you want more or different info. But getting info is NOT simply guesswork! I don’t want to give anything away, so I’ll use one of my favorite IMs (actually more of a SIM hybrid), In The 1st Degree as an example. The player has to develop different strategies for interrogating different witnesses: Confronting person A will give you the result you’re after, while person B will shut up like a clam when intimidated. Same here. After watching a few scenes with a family member you should get an idea what approach will work.

After three or four playthroughs of not choosing properly, I took a pen and pad and made decision branches of each round. Once I unlocked each piece of evidence in that round, I would move on. If not, I would start over and choose differently. It sucks the fun out and makes playing a chore. That’s the equivalent of trying every inventory object on everything. True, not much fun.

I get the impression the reviewer has never played an IM before. Or if he has, he doesn’t care for this genre. No problem.  But maybe let someone else review Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus.

Karlok - 04 April 2022 05:51 AM

I feel a strong urge to comment on the review of Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus. Starting a new thread about a game only two people have showed any interest in is overdoing it, so I’ll vent my criticism here. The AG reviewer didn’t like the game much (2.5 stars), which is of course fine. But I have a problem with his reasons why.

Next to zero actual gameplay. An interactive movie is just that: a MOVIE. The player has a few seconds to influence the story by choosing which cut scene will be shown next. That’s it. So the reviewer is in fact complaining about an IM being an IM. It’s like being disappointed that there isn’t any shooting or platforming in Monkey Island.

Everything is guesswork and trial and error, and there’s never a way of knowing what result an answer will trigger. Yes, you watch scenes first and then decide if you want more or different info. But getting info is NOT simply guesswork! I don’t want to give anything away, so I’ll use one of my favorite IMs (actually more of a SIM hybrid), In The 1st Degree as an example. The player has to develop different strategies for interrogating different witnesses: Confronting person A will give you the result you’re after, while person B will shut up like a clam when intimidated. Same here. After watching a few scenes with a family member you should get an idea what approach will work.

After three or four playthroughs of not choosing properly, I took a pen and pad and made decision branches of each round. Once I unlocked each piece of evidence in that round, I would move on. If not, I would start over and choose differently. It sucks the fun out and makes playing a chore. That’s the equivalent of trying every inventory object on everything. True, not much fun.

I get the impression the reviewer has never played an IM before. Or if he has, he doesn’t care for this genre. No problem.  But maybe let someone else review Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus.

Thank you so much for writing this. I myself loved the game and thought it deserved more than 2.5 stars. It does have a score of 75 on metacrtic which is quite favorable.