JMM72
Half-Life 2
Point and click graphic adventure

The Last Door - Collector's Edition

9/10
14.3 hours
16 of 16 achievements

A classic point and click graphic adventure with pixel art and horror setting. Let me elaborate on those three points. Yes, it is a very classic style point and click game, with inventory but no verbs. Interactions are straighforward so you only need to use the brain following sometimes subtle clues that are only revealed truly after you've succeed on a puzzle. The pixel art is very pixel (huge pixels, resolution is like 100x78), but also very artsy; you'll have trouble finding many games with this art quality in such low res, and animations are fluid and surprisingly realisting - signs of great quality pixel art. And finally, the horror setting is really great; not actually scary (tho there are some jumpscares), but the writting, the story, the ambience, the melancholic-then-eerie-then-tense music help telling a great horror tale in the vein of Poe or Shelley. Old classic gothic horror with some modern touches here and there.

It was a great experience playing each episode the first time. My playtime is distorted and elongated by 1. card farming before playing (5h); 2. doing other things with the game on background when they required my attention (who knows); and 3. having to play each episode three times to get all achievements. Specially devious are the "occult" secret events to get Master Of The Occult. I found some myself but for the last ones I had to follow a guide because why would you stay in the precise same spot doing nothing in a precise moment until an event triggers? Not following a guide means hours of tries - and you know when you've triggered a secret event, but you never know if you're missing any in this chapter or in another.

All in all, near perfect point and click for us who played on the golden age in the early 90's. Next stop: Day Of The Tentacle? Dunno, but now I have to get The Last Door Season 2!