Bojangles4th
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Second entry in the overly ambitious trilogy, and the overall most boring from memory. As the name suggests, most locations are at night, coupled with the rather earthy tones of the game (barring 1 or 2 locations later) makes for an incredibly drab world. The beginning of the story feels incredibly forced, and it didn't really felt put together until towards the end, and the end only set up for a convenient plot point for the third game.
Spyro meets Lord of the Rings, complete with Elijah Wood voicing Spyro. It's extremely ambitious, and I adore it for that, but the gameplay is endlessly repetitive and the delivery for lines (which, there's a lot) is also a mixed bag. Not the worst of the trilogy, that remains for the second entry...
Update: Replayed as of 10/16/2021, added half a star. My opinion of the game hasn't changed much, and I actually like most of the voice acting (but you can tell when the writers just had to put in filler)
It gets better after the 2nd act, since you get Lightning which has the ability to stunlock (mostly) and chuck enemies around; meaning you an chuck almost any enemy in the game into a death plain and not have to deal with the tedious combat.
The biggest thing it has going for it is the presentation, with a fully orchestrated score and star studded presentation; though only the former of which is particularly good imo, the latter is fine for this kind of game in the mid 00s.
If you like semi-corny epics and are a Spyro fan that doesn't reel at games made past the first 3, I do recommend it; but don't expect the gameplay to be terribly interesting nor the story to be particularly deep as it only serves to set up for the Legend trilogy.
Update: Replayed as of 10/16/2021, added half a star. My opinion of the game hasn't changed much, and I actually like most of the voice acting (but you can tell when the writers just had to put in filler)
It gets better after the 2nd act, since you get Lightning which has the ability to stunlock (mostly) and chuck enemies around; meaning you an chuck almost any enemy in the game into a death plain and not have to deal with the tedious combat.
The biggest thing it has going for it is the presentation, with a fully orchestrated score and star studded presentation; though only the former of which is particularly good imo, the latter is fine for this kind of game in the mid 00s.
If you like semi-corny epics and are a Spyro fan that doesn't reel at games made past the first 3, I do recommend it; but don't expect the gameplay to be terribly interesting nor the story to be particularly deep as it only serves to set up for the Legend trilogy.
First point and click I bothered to finish, incredibly charming game. Looking forward to, potentially, playing through the rest of the Sam & Max games.
Update: I now have all of the Sam & Max cosmetic items in TF2 and own a Max plush irl and I love him.
Update: I now have all of the Sam & Max cosmetic items in TF2 and own a Max plush irl and I love him.
1998
The first real or noteworthy collectathon, and probably the best. Not its fault, but a shame nothing else has matched it.
2017
Probably the best 3D platformer, great community adding tons of additional levels of all types too.
One of the best roguelites in the entire genre, and an excellent strategy game overall. Fantastic and very active modding community.
1999
5/10 incredibly mediocre