It's absolutely wild how modern this feels in every way except for the UI. Wandering around the train and stumbling into ongoing conversations in real time feels like magic even today. The writing is worthy of the golden-age Hollywood movies it clearly takes inspiration from, and even the acting is good. But the classic point-and-click interface makes this incredibly frustrating to navigate. This kind of interface doesn't bother me in other classic games like Riven or Grim Fandango, but train cars look similar enough to each other that it's super easy to get turned around in The Last Express.

This Gold Edition presumably offers some quality of life improvements from the original, but this is really screaming for a full-on remake. Take the same story and puzzles and transplant them directly into a modern 3D environment with mo-cap replacing the rotoscoping and you'd have a masterpiece.

Granted, this will not happen. So you'll just have to play this: one of the two or three best classic point-and-clicks, ahead of its time, a victim of its own momentum.