Runaway, A Road Adventure

The Game is just Mediocrity for me, some of it is good, other things rather not. The most important Criterion for me when Evaluating a Point & Click is the Puzzles. Everything is from simple to difficult. Difficult Puzzles are not bad, but the Reasons for this are often somewhat dubious In nature:-Some Objects are very difficult to find; Pixelhunting is the order of The day; Any inconspicuous Thing could be important; In addition, many interactive Sites are close to each other; To make matters worse, the Cursor is often many times larger than the Object being searched; So you have to search the whole Screen and lentil it again and again to the Text at the bottom of The screen to see if and which independent Object is in Focus. -Very many Objects have to be visited and searched several times; Sometimes there is slight Evidence that it could become useful later, but sometimes such Hints do not occur. -Very much has to be done in exactly the given Order-At All, there are rarely any Hints as to how it might go (E.g. "yes so similar it could go" "there is almost never; sometimes, however, there are hints, but often I had to have half the Level Search before I found something again) Sometimes things go really nicely. I guessed what to do, for which I can use something to look for. To my Liking, though, it was a little too common that I was clueless about how or where to continue. The Prospect of then just having to try through or search everything frustrated me. Then came the Handle to the Walkthrough ... Moreover (although many Puzzles were logical within the Framework of the Genre), I sometimes found the Solution quite absurd:-That frozen Batteries provide electricity again is unknown to me-That you can cut Nuts better with a hot Scalpel is new to me-That Sun Rays falling through a Window, warming better than the plump Desert sun, is a Mystery to me-Where The Killer Gina's Name (in Hospital) know remains unclear to me-That Lipsticks Sprinkled with Black Powder yield ammunition I can't understand-etc. Overall, the Puzzles (Minigries were probably only one and that was relatively simple for me) average; The Vastness of the Possibilities often made it "artificially" difficult, in the way illogical Solutions make it difficult In the wrong Way. Now the Puzzles could rarely inspire me, but the told Geshichte could not really make up for it. It starts as a road adventure (according to a road movie) and Initially it seemed that way. A Man meets a mystery handsome woman and both end up in a Car fleeing the Mafia. Super! But then, in the middle of the Desert, where they are held captive, the Hero Brian meets three drag queens who are also stranded in the Desert. Not only that, even an alien researcher who, of course, is now kidnapped by Aliens, a millionaire Hacker and Owner of a Ghost town, a Fortune teller who lets him talk to The Dead, etc., come into play and any logic and credibility Flies out of the Game. The Car has been lost for a long time, Instead Brian is walking for miles. He usually deposits the pretty Gina somewhere and so she almost doesn't matter. No, the Story is not coherent, it is shrill. It seems like a C-Movie, like "Attack of the Killer Tomato." Which is such a shame because the Graphics are excellent, even today. They are not static Images, but the Characters move, Light and Shadow, 2.5D by motion Parallaxes, All elaborately made. You can't find a straight line in the Pictures, everything is bent. This has a lot of comichaftes about it and is already fine. The Operation of the Game is kept simple but fine. The (too large) Mouse Pointer changes when it is on an interactive Object, the Objects can be moved with Drag and Drop. This is probably in line with the Situation in 2003. There are very long Cutscenes in places and many long Dialogues, felt this accounted for 40% of The Game time. If I liked the Story, w # ren they probably seemed much better to me. Pro & Contra: + Good Graphics and Animation + Meist pleasant musical Accompaniment + Some (too few) good Puzzles-Too little indication of how to proceed-Pixelhunting-Some Illogical solutions-Increasingly absurd Story Rating: 05/10 Unfortunately, neither the History still excite the Puzzles. So I found the Game disappointing.