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...with wounded pride and earless carcass. (BTW, Freddy Pharkas, underrated much?)

I would put it in my top three games period. Of course I’m a good friend of one of the designers, so that counts for a lot.

Nevertheless, this is one hilarious fun game to play. One of my favorite voiceings is Josh’s saloon scream “Let me at them sheep!”

For reasons that have been discussed in other threads I think the floppy-disk version is superior to to CD. But the former is a lot harder to find. Plus you have to jerry-rig a USB disk drive to load the game in order to get all the dialog. I think it is worth the effort.

One of Sierra’s best games ever.

I agree that the game is underrated, and it’s also one of my favourite Sierra games.

I’ll wager that the game is grateful that it will never be touched by you again as well.

While a very small sample is represented here on this thread, your negative opinion is outvoted 4-to-1. I’m glad you liked the music and humor.

As for the graphics, I think the quality is very typical of not only Sierra games released at the time, but typical of just about every game produced in that time frame.

I can’t speak for other publishers, but this was the first Sierra game that could only be played on 486 machines. Sierra always pushed the envelope a bit. It was, I believe the first company to move exclusively to CD. Much to the chagrin of those who came to expect backward compatibility as a right. Some of those eye-bleeding graphics might be simple result of increased processing power compared to games that still ran on 386 machines.

You’re not wrong. You just have a totally different view of the game than I do.

Please tell us how you feel about the Legend of Kyrandia book 3.

I agree about the Freddy Pharkas graphics, they were annoying all game through. But I did enjoy the game. 

It is true that graphics are from the perspective view a mess, though the comedic nature of the game tags along with it. Another problem as I see it is the strong and overdone color palette, though far from it that it’s all bad and without a style:

The back alley, for example, has some neat shadows and nice colors, makes you almost “feel” the sun rays finding its way through the leaves.

This is nothing unusual for Sierra, but the game makes some really original views, like through the bars, windows… making for a nice change of pace.

Finally, even though I also agree that the town is “flat” and “linear” from the design point, it is exactly how the towns were built in the old west, and what we see in movies - in a straight line, so that really didn’t bother me.

I know my biggest gripe came from the fact that I had to use walkthrough in several places because it wasn’t clear what the objective is, but I think I would welcome its open nature more now. I still think that great music, not that great but passable graphics, dubious but also rich puzzle design AND a nice atmosphere, makes for an above average title, even for Sierra standards.