Hoodwink‘s trailer burst onto the internet the other week, the game having gone pretty much entirely under the radar until that point. The trailer showed off a colourful, nicely drawn world with witty, interesting and, most importantly, well-voiced characters. To me, it looked like a welcome return to the comic-noir style of a true genre classic, Grim Fandango. I got the review code. I was excited. I really, really wanted Hoodwink to be good. Ye gods, I’m so angry. I knew from the very start of the game that things were not going to go well. Hoodwink controls exactly like…
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The Sea Will Claim Everything
June 13, 2012 – 2:50 pm
Bundles. It’s all about bundles these days. Even the big publishers are nosing into the indie bundle craze. The bundle I’m delving into here is the Bundle In A Box which features adventure games a plenty but from which I’m plucking the rather worryingly titled The Sea Will Claim Everything. On launching for the first time I’m struck by the music, so much so I don’t know how long I sat just staring at the menu screen. The dried vine porthole view of a slither of sand beyond which presumably endless water lay offered nothing, and yet was made captivating…