Getting tired of waiting for Sam & Max S3 remaster, so decided I was gonna play the Telltale games in between S2&3. Only thing is, that'll include Tales and it's been so long since I played Curse and I never finished Escape, so fuck it, replaying this overrated, meaningless, weirdly interpreted, beautifully animated follow up to the greatest game of all time!

Got to the first time at the reactor with Sephiroth. I cannot get over how adorable young cloud's face is.

Episode 1.

Loving everything in regards to the overall game design & technology - real innovation from Wolfenstein 3D > Doom > Quake, dunno why I haven't actually played through it before.

As for the first episode, Tim Willits' levels are great and have a fantastic cohesion. Romero's opening level perhaps would have been better suited before the episode select area as it feel very disconnected from the rest of the episode, though I do understand that that would give people les immediacy to choose a specific episode to jump to like they did in Doom (though the fact you have to beat all 4 episodes to unlock the final boss makes it feel like maybe that shouldn't be the case? I dunno).

Mission 5 is like the most American McGee level I've ever played, so it came out of nowhere after Willits' stuff, but it's not bad, plus full mouselook and jump button make his platforming tendencies actually work. His boss arena is extremely well designed for a fast pace bullet-sponge boss, except then you realize it's not that and you just have to puss buttons to kill him and the whole bottom level is just pointless.

Overall though, loving it! Excited for Romero's episode next.

OH AND I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT TRENT REZNOR'S SOUND DESIGN AND SCORE! HOLY SHIT!

Virtious Mission + Snake Eater up to Eva

I hope this type of DLC is done this generation.

Honest pretty fucked up how you can destroy all that art. Agreed with JJJ's commentary on it afterwards lol

God this third act is such a slog. It's probably fine if you're no going for 100% but if they put this much shit in their game it should be fun to do.

Voice acting is fine, 64 had it too, it's just that peach was the only character in the cutscenes. The problem is the huge amount of cutscenes at the beginning - this a Mario game lmao.