Trying the last of Take Two’s FMV games, Black Dahlia, and this feels so weird after Ripper because it feels like a real, respectable, big budget (for the time) point and click adventure game and not a weird mess created by nerds with no sense who can’t stop re-reading Neuromancer.
It’s a game all about wacky nazi conspiracies and also two real world murder cases from the 30s/40s because serial killer fiction was all the rage in the 90s. It actually has good looking graphics, more sensible use of character actors and only a bit of splurging (mainly for Dennis Hopper, who was in their first FMV game, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller), nice music, and a general sense of competency. I hear the puzzles are bastards so I will be using a guide.
Also playing Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, the first game of its series! It’s very meta, you see. You play as the protag of a Resident Evil-like franchise finding out they live in not only a video game, but an unfinished one. It’s very funny, lots of great existential dark comedy, fun match-3 mechanics with some fun twists on certain encounters, and a neat progression system where you can revisit past areas to not only make different choices, but gain personality traits over time that unlock new options.
Anyways here’s the funniest moment I’ve found so far
