Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Ignore my playtime here, beat this back on the Xbox during covid. I'm gonna start calling these kinds of games boomer-bait. Overwhelmingly positive reviews, but then when you play it, it's a mid point and click adventure game with writing that could only make a five year old laugh. These titles are carried by nostalgia. Half of the time, the puzzles are not even puzzles, they are just nonsensical garbage connected by the most fragile through-line. No hate to Double Fine though, I adore most of their library. This just ain't it for me.

None of the jokes are funny. The soundtrack's mileage evaporates with mere hours of play. The vague gestures in the direction of an ethos, sans silly sound effects and on-screen hijinx, are worthless. The concept of an adventure game, a notoriously hard-to-pace genre, predicated on Looney Tunes-esque slapstick, a notoriously immediate and punchy cartoon, assumed the blame for many a blasé moment in my playthroughs, wherein I would begrudgingly let the game do its thing in long-winded breaths, letting all of it slip past my every sense until I got put back in the driver's seat. All of this compounds to make wading through this game's deepest self-assured mires nigh unfun. And yet, it is my comfort game. The puzzles are tactile, synaptic, devilishly versatile in their presentation, they make sense, which is more than your average adventure can even say. They weave into each other and their interplay is just able to be inferred without displacing room for thought. Solving one never pays in anything less than elation, the adventure is designed to nudge you into a puzzle chain without forcing you into any. Since I've spent so much time with it, I think calling it motherly is not unnatural. Or I just might've invested too much of my life into this glorified grab-bag of pixels to ever question that. I wouldn't know. I don't really want to. I genuinely hold Day of the Tentacle in a similar regard to Monkey Island 2. It objectively has failings, many, in fact, but I can look past those. It whisks me away to a place where the tentacles wave freely and mad scientists gab with a voice like nails on a chalkboard, and that's all that really matters.

weird little game with cool music. a classic.

Old school point and click one of the games that made Tim Shafer reputation, fun silly time travel plot with some very stupid and annoying puzzles. A really good remaster which shows both the orginal and remastered art and offers modern conviences.

Double Fine como siempre con su exquisito gusto en juegos raros, en este caso, haciendo un gran trabajo en un hermoso remastered de la secuela de uno de los grandes juegos de final de los 80's (Maniac Mansion, el cual es totalmente jugable DENTRO del propio juego) en lo que seria la época dorada del genero "aventura grafica" de la mano de LucasArts. Con algunos glitches visuales y bugs en audio pero en ningún momento perjudicando de manera grave la experiencia. 9/10.

Going back to the old days with this classic. Very nicely remastered, I say. This game is so funny!

Es una obra de arte y obligatorio en cualquier colección de videojuegos.