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| Telltale's Back to the Future gams by fabio 06/13/2012, 3:19pm PDT | ||||
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| The puzzles are easy (the only ones I got stuck on involved a non obvious red herring and arbitrary trigger). The writing isn't anything great (only two or three jokes are funny). When they try to recreate the old town square chase using stiff animation it's an embarrassment.
Despite all this I'd give a thumbs up. It's great just to see the characters back in action again (Christopher Lloyd and a dead ringer for Fox (most of the funny jokes are from his dead on distressed Marty)). You can't help get excited when the first notes of the sound track kick in, when you hear the famous sound effects. The only hurdle is getting past the first episode, easily the weakest of the five. It's actually kind of depressing, going back to the whole "movies are dead" thing. Sure you have a good Cohen brothers movie every 5 years, a "thoughtful" drama, a character study or a muted comedy designed to make you almost smirk rather than laugh, but there will never be another great "entertainment" movie again, ever. They're done. That's it. There will never be another Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Alien(s), or Die Hard. No 80s Spielberg or John Carpenter or James Cameron. The greats have gotten too old and there's nobody waiting in the wings to take their place. There are no replacement action stars. Nobody to replace Harold Ramis or Bill Murray. Transformers and Avatar made over triple those greats combined and they're the wave of the future. How many movies of this century is anyone going to care about 25 years from now? Who in 2025 is going to buy a Ridley Scott's Gladiator game out of nostaltia? Who can even remember a soundtrack, much less get excited over one? thumbs up for the actual games. Negative ten thumbs for making you realize what we lost. |
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