wonderful settings and has a few moments of nice spooky atmosphere but god this was a fucking slog to play sometimes. even when looking at it in context of point and click adventure games and how obtuse they can be.

tons of context sensitive interactive items/objects or even dialogue choices that can only be chosen after other things have been done, frequently without rhyme or reason. there's multiple points throughout the game where someone will ask you to wait and ask them about something later which left you to fuck off through the map pixel hunting for stuff to interact with if you've done everything else that was possible until then.

i'd be willing to give the next two games in the series a go if they keep what was nice about this while easing up on some of the more unpleasant elements.