i've owned the original game since the earlier days near its release but it took me so long to get around to this that i figured i'd just do the director's cut. it went for such a cheap price in the recent winter sale when you factored in the additional bundle discount for owning the old version that it was an easy sell.

having not played the original i'm not sure how substantial any changes that came with the Director's Cut were. what i played however was pretty different than what i expected. the mystery elements were all here and what i was looking for after first coming across the game but the darker, almost horror elements and developments that came with that were a surprise. it was my expectations and therefore my own fault but i was really hoping this was going to have a more grounded resolution to things but some of the environments in the end were interesting at least.

puzzles and point and click gameplay are all solid with nothing standing out in a significantly bad way. some of the solutions get into some brain wormy territory but that's standard for the genre and i'm used to it by now.

curious to see how i feel about Whispers of a Machine from the same devs. hopefully i don't wait so long to play it that it also sees a re-release before i got around to the copy in my library. 🤪