Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: Muzzled!



Telltale keeps rolling along with the third part of the Wallace & Gromit series. Whatever you think of the games, you can't say they're not consistent in anything they do. This one didn't do as much for me as the first two for some reason, though I still mostly enjoyed its charm while it lasted. It just didn't seem as substantial, like something was cut out for some reason - previous games had you bouncing back and forth between playing Wallace and Gromit, while this time you only control Wallace for one relatively brief segment. It just isn't as well conceived as earlier installments. The puzzles are on the same level of being generally intuitive and usually clever. The climactic sequence involving one of their elaborate contraptions for something other than its intended use was still fun, although again, just not quite as good as they've already done it. I hope they do another run in a year or two, because only four episodes isn't enough time to spend in such an enjoyable word.

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