From Lex to Rex

This game has something that alot of others are lacking: Being genuinely silly and creative. If you like the oldschool classics, you will most likely.. like this game. The puzzles are just great, because you have to try unusual combinations. Moonlogic, sure, but in a fun way. There was a puzzle involving portals that was clever and different. I am looking forward to play the other titles in the series. It has flaws. I was playing with a resolution of 1920x1200, since thats the native res of my screen and it was chosen automatically. Looked great with no black bars. The problem was that at one point in the game I was stuck and couldnt figure out what to do. Came back some time later to try again but nothing. I was sure I was missing something. I didnt like it but I looked up how to proceed and the problem was that there was an exit I couldnt see and mouseover, because it was cropped, because of the resolution. Changed the resolution to 1920x1080 and everything worked. The other thing I noticed were some rare instances where the character sprite wasnt in the correct layer, or popped into view when I clicked on a specific hotspot. Thats it though. Just happy accidents ^^ Thumbs up!

Un buen revival del espíritu de las aventuras gráficas que me flipaban en la juventud, con Lucasarts a la cabeza. Historia divertida y buenos gags.

The game has wonderful retro pixel graphics and animations. The English translation is not great, but okay. This would normally mean a thumb up but... Unfortunately many of the puzzles are totally illogical, with the game texts rarely giving you any idea what you need to do. In addition you often end up searching the screen for tiny elements to interact with. Your final resort to is to combine everything with everything or looking up the walk through hints. Example: early in the game you need to fix a broken rake. To glue it back together, you need to stick one half into a pile of bones to suddenly have adhesive on the end. The second half needs to be rubbed on some graffiti at the wall, which will add hardener to it. None of these actions make any sense and no dialog or examination of said objects give any clue that this would happen. When you have figured it out by pure experimentation, you need to use the rake on a crack in the floor that does not look much different from any other parts on the screen...

From Lex to Rex es una aventura gráfica que evoca el tipo de humor de los comienzos de Lucas Arts, aunque no siempre conecta. En vez de ser multiples pantallas que pueden ser recorridas libremente se trata de escenas individuales (unidas por las historia eso sí) donde básicamente resolvemos lo que sucede ahí y pasamos a la siguiente. En principio parecería que esto evitaría el tedio de posibles idas y vueltas pero el juego se torna frustrante igual porque en la mayoría de las pantallas no hay demasiadas cosas y debemos encontrar lo que tenemos que hacer muchas veces sin demasiadas pistas y varias veces con pixel hunting o intentando todos los objetos con todo lo posible (a tal punto que el propio juego reconoce que hacemos esto). Para colmo, en varias escenas podemos "morir" y tenemos que rehacer la escena por completo. Más allá de eso voy a darle el positivo al juego, creo que tiene la duración adecuada (menos de 3hs) y termina en el punto justo para no pasarse al lado negativo. Puntaje: 6.5/10

Una aventura grafica de corte clasico. A mi, mas que a las de Lucas, me ha recordado mucho a Touche!