Some constructive criticism to telltalegames regarding S2E2
First I would like to say I’m a big fan of Sam and Max and of telltalegames too.
I bought the full Season 1 and Season 2 and Sam and Max is the only game I still play on my PC since I got my 360.
I’ve downloaded Ep2 today and played it for a little while and I got to say, still best class humor. It’s the only game that makes me laugh out loud while playing.
My criticism is that I feel that Ep2 was rushed out in visual aspects. Maybe the cause is that December/January is usually holiday time or maybe it’s some internal turnovers but I have some specific points which I think could be better:
• Beach location looks too simple. Textures and location design seemed below the average quality for the rest of locations.
• Babies look someway like soda poppers, I expected new characters to have some new feelings.
• Bosco’s Incontinence and Bosco for the first time, looks exactly the same in 2 consecutive episodes. I was looking for the new Bosco’s style this episode.
• I would have been really nice to have some underwater effects like Sam and Max swimming instead of walking normally or to move in a bit different way to give more feeling of the environment.
• Hitting objects with the car felt old since it is used exactly as the last episode (with a twist).
The good side is that story and humor still top class and seems to be improving but I really hope to see same improvement to the overall quality of the game.
Thank you
I bought the full Season 1 and Season 2 and Sam and Max is the only game I still play on my PC since I got my 360.
I’ve downloaded Ep2 today and played it for a little while and I got to say, still best class humor. It’s the only game that makes me laugh out loud while playing.
My criticism is that I feel that Ep2 was rushed out in visual aspects. Maybe the cause is that December/January is usually holiday time or maybe it’s some internal turnovers but I have some specific points which I think could be better:
• Beach location looks too simple. Textures and location design seemed below the average quality for the rest of locations.
• Babies look someway like soda poppers, I expected new characters to have some new feelings.
• Bosco’s Incontinence and Bosco for the first time, looks exactly the same in 2 consecutive episodes. I was looking for the new Bosco’s style this episode.
• I would have been really nice to have some underwater effects like Sam and Max swimming instead of walking normally or to move in a bit different way to give more feeling of the environment.
• Hitting objects with the car felt old since it is used exactly as the last episode (with a twist).
The good side is that story and humor still top class and seems to be improving but I really hope to see same improvement to the overall quality of the game.
Thank you
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Well, no. The store did change a bit for this episode, not much but it is not exactly the same. And Bosco told you in 201 "the time for disguises is past".
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Nonsense. If Bosco was incontinent, why would he make it so hard to get into the bathroom?
Come on, that was pretty good.
And, of course, to sum up my reply: you can only please so many people. There's always going to be someone that will see something wrong with the game.
Have to agree with your criticism of the human babies (which weren't that funny or interesting) and the driving minigame (which resembled the last one). I had fun with the surfing game, though.
Overall, I think the episode could have been more elaborate. Another location with a few more puzzles wouldn't have come amiss and the babies could have been more fleshed out as characters. The interesting setting is definitely able to support more gameplay without becoming stale and the portals are good for loads of intriguing puzzles.
To sum it up, I wouldn't mind at all having to wait a bit longer between my doses of Sam and Max, if that meant the episodes were longer and more imvolved.