Anybody else ever play an old mid nineties game called The Neverhood Chronicles? From a game mechanics standpoint, it is absolutely awful, the puzzles aren't exactly hard, but sometimes they are unreasonable in the large amount of memorization and mass back tracking it makes you do. Though if it didn't make you jump through these annoying hoops, the game would be rather short.
Despite all of this, the game is very pretty... in a quirky claymation kind of way. The entire set is made out of clay and it uses full motion video as you walk around the tiny clay world. I can't recall how many times I've started this game throughout my childhood, got frustrated with it or stuck and gave up only to get in the mood to start it again a months or years later.
The last time I played this game I was probably 12 or 14 and still hadn't beaten it. Last week I started thinking about it again and decided to see if there was a Mac port of it available in the seedy underdepths of the interwebs (my old original CD-ROM is probably rotting away in a box in my parents garage), and sure enough, I found one that works brilliantly on OS X. And now, finally after all these years, I beat it today!
The game is a very pleasant and unique experience. I'd recommend it to any adventure game fans and/or clay animation fans.
4 out of 4 balls.
Maybe someday I can get my hands on its hard to find sequel for the PSOne, Skullmonkeys.