Next up is a horrible, horrible game. I'm talking about this little gem from 1995:


The game has filmed video sequences with real life actors. Check out the cheesy intro if you'd like. It starts at 1:30 in this video:


I'll give you an example of how douchy the main character is:

Robin: I can't go on like this, everyone's saying I slept with you to become your Producer
Carl: Well, didn't you? *sniggers*
Robin: I can't believe you just said that, you of all people. I'm a good producer.
Carl: Robin, you're good at a lot of things.

So the story is: a bunch of people have gone missing, the last person in line being Robin. Suddenly struck with a bad conscience, Carl sets out to find Robin, starting off with investigating a mansion with a horribly annoying narrator who's more than happy to comment on Carl's every move. The narrator always talks in puns and will most often end his pun by laughing at his own pun. This game is worth checking out for that cheese alone.


So the gameplay is quite easy, there's a bunch of puzzles around the house which you have to solve, and you can't really investigate much until you've taken care of the puzzle it seems. I got stuck with this one for quite some time. IT SEEMS SO EASY AT FIRST SIGHT. I'm sure it took me a good 20 minutes. 20 minutes of whinny noises.


Among all these puzzles there's always an overarching riddle which you have to solve. The riddle is referring to a random object in the mansion that you have to examine. If you examine the wrong object, the horrible narrator will come up with a horrible pun and laugh at his own joke again. Repeat until you either find the correct item or strangle yourself. This one was referring to a bottle of tonic water, for some reason.


This one I got, it was referring to this painting of some birds. But only one of the birds would give you a correct answer. The other birds would give you horrible puns again.


Also, this game suffers from some bad game design. Even though this door is quite wide open, it's still not possible to enter. Simply because this is a room you're not supposed to enter yet. The mansion has a long hallway of doors like this, and knowing when to enter them would require some guesswork. Gotta love old adventure games, eh?

Anyway, not a very user friendly game. Should probably avoid this one unless you're in it for the cheesy acting/dialogue and the horrible puns of the narrator.