And so my adventure through the works of Joe Richardson continued.
Ahhh, these games. Maybe some of the humor is just not for me. Yet some jokes got the same giggle out of me that Four Last Things did.
This game does something interesting, because after Ending #1 it really opens up. Everything up to Ending 1 was all fun and games, until The Procession to Calvary opens up. At this point it got tedious in places. I don't know what happened to the rather straight forward Puzzle design of it's predecessor, but here it got messy, convoluted and frustrating to a degree. To part ways with the old adventure game trope of having the player pick up everything that's not nailed down, came at the cost of hinting you to very specific items you've already seen and make you fetch them. I would have had these in my inventory, come on, why the backtracking over these huge ass screens. Everything was smaller in his first Renaissance game. And although this game too is gorgeous to look at, the sprinting speed does not account for the landscape pictures this game has now. Also the quest to complete all 7 sins was more interesting than the motivation in this one. Also each quest here, feels a little to long and featuring too many steps to make you feel immediately rewarded. Goes well with my point from above, with the backtracking becoming really tedious at some point.
The humor of this one is also expectantly pitch-black and that just has to be your type of thing. I liked many jokes here, but you REALLY gotta be into this. The meta jokes all spoke to me though and I had a good laugh off those.
But I personally had enough of the
The Immortal John Triptych franchise for now and think I will pass on Death of the Reprobate in the near future.
3/3 of my reviews of Joe Richardson's body of work so far
Ahhh, these games. Maybe some of the humor is just not for me. Yet some jokes got the same giggle out of me that Four Last Things did.
This game does something interesting, because after Ending #1 it really opens up. Everything up to Ending 1 was all fun and games, until The Procession to Calvary opens up. At this point it got tedious in places. I don't know what happened to the rather straight forward Puzzle design of it's predecessor, but here it got messy, convoluted and frustrating to a degree. To part ways with the old adventure game trope of having the player pick up everything that's not nailed down, came at the cost of hinting you to very specific items you've already seen and make you fetch them. I would have had these in my inventory, come on, why the backtracking over these huge ass screens. Everything was smaller in his first Renaissance game. And although this game too is gorgeous to look at, the sprinting speed does not account for the landscape pictures this game has now. Also the quest to complete all 7 sins was more interesting than the motivation in this one. Also each quest here, feels a little to long and featuring too many steps to make you feel immediately rewarded. Goes well with my point from above, with the backtracking becoming really tedious at some point.
The humor of this one is also expectantly pitch-black and that just has to be your type of thing. I liked many jokes here, but you REALLY gotta be into this. The meta jokes all spoke to me though and I had a good laugh off those.
But I personally had enough of the
The Immortal John Triptych franchise for now and think I will pass on Death of the Reprobate in the near future.
3/3 of my reviews of Joe Richardson's body of work so far