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You know what? I thought Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade was GOOD! It’s not Fate of Atlantis in terms of epicness and original story, sure, but it was a decent effort at a time for “translating” the popular movie into a classic adventure game, that paved the way for one of the best games in the genre. The game grabbed me from the start, and that Venice puzzle was nicely “converted” into a game. Just a quick tip - if you haven’t watched the movie yet (yeah, like that can happen) play the game first - you’ll save yourself of few “spoilers”, because many puzzles are the “recreation” of the movie (for example, Indy “gets around” the students right at the beginning in the exact same way like in the film).

I thought it was even more “cartoony” than “Atlantis” (thus, it features on Sunday) mainly because of locations’ brighter and more prominent primary colors in DOS version.

Yeah, I agree it was actually a quite good game, not as good as Atlantis, but still a game that I enjoyed playing.

I must admit that I don’t really remember that much from it, but I do remember crawling out of the window in the beginning, and having a good laugh about it, mainly because it was the exact same thing as in the film.

I’m however not sure about the scene in the screenshot, didn’t they change it so it is slightly different and more complicated than in the film?

diego - 14 June 2015 07:15 AM

You know what? I thought Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade was GOOD! It’s not Fate of Atlantis in terms of epicness and original story, sure, but it was a decent effort at a time for “translating” the popular movie into a classic adventure game, that paved the way for one of the best games in the genre. The game grabbed me from the start, and that Venice puzzle was nicely “converted” into a game.

I agree. It may have a few frustrating sections (I’m looking at you, zeppelin ‘maze’), but it was still a fun game.
Still one of the weaker efforts in the LucasArts catalogue, though.

Just a quick tip - if you haven’t watched the movie yet (yeah, like that can happen) play the game first - you’ll save yourself of few “spoilers”, because many puzzles are the “recreation” of the movie (for example, Indy “gets around” the students right at the beginning in the exact same way like in the film).

There are alternate solutions that don’t use the method of the movie, probably for everything, so it doesn’t matter so much. And there are some things that make more sense if you HAVE seen the movie (what to do when facing Hitler, for instance).
Meh, watch the film first. It’s awesome, and it’ll give you that extra level of recognition if you see how they recreated things in the game. Plus you’ll notice and actually get all the movie references.
Except Charles the Plant, that’s a Maniac Mansion nod to Chuck the Plant.

TimovieMan - 17 June 2015 06:13 PM

There are alternate solutions that don’t use the method of the movie, probably for everything, so it doesn’t matter so much.

Yeah, but still, I fear players are like that - going the easy route I know I was immediately looking for window in that students puzzle.

TimovieMan - 17 June 2015 06:13 PM

Meh, watch the film first.

Well, it certainly won’t hurt that much. And I actually agree that seeing the movie first is sometimes a significant incentive for enjoying the game. It’s also interesting how the game was released, not months, years… after the movie, but days after it. So I’m sure plenty of computer geeks played the game without seeing the movie.