While I understand some of the annoyance that this series sometimes provokes I think they are pretty fun and silly. The sprite work is really readable and the voice acting is pretty good. I disagree with Roberta's position that it's fun to spend months thinking about a puzzle, when I do that when I finally figure it out I usually feel mad. Which is why I played with my friend feeding me information from the hintbook. We felt like that was a good compromise between finding solutions ourselves and not pulling our hair out over a solution that we were missing pieces to complete.