From Lex to Rex

Pros - Its kind of a simple story but takes a very bizarre and unexpected route. Never boring. - Fun dialog and lots of quirky characters. - Nice graphics, very nostalgic - Good music - Controls are fine, mostly entirely playable with the mouse but you do need to press ESC to exit. Cons - No manual save, there is an auto-save but you might have to redo a few things - A couple of glitches where Lex seems to appear in the wrong place, nothing game breaking. - The puzzle design was just not my cup of tea. Lots of try everything with everything moments. Lots of pixel hunting. There is no hot spot reveal which I guess might be all part of the old school point and click ethos but I've just gotten use to modern convenience at this stage. - A little on the short side maybe but its fairly priced I think. - No vsync Overall its quite charming and worth a look for fans of the genre.

The game has wonderful retro pixel graphics and animations. The English translation is not great, but okay. This would normally mean a thumb up but... Unfortunately many of the puzzles are totally illogical, with the game texts rarely giving you any idea what you need to do. In addition you often end up searching the screen for tiny elements to interact with. Your final resort to is to combine everything with everything or looking up the walk through hints. Example: early in the game you need to fix a broken rake. To glue it back together, you need to stick one half into a pile of bones to suddenly have adhesive on the end. The second half needs to be rubbed on some graffiti at the wall, which will add hardener to it. None of these actions make any sense and no dialog or examination of said objects give any clue that this would happen. When you have figured it out by pure experimentation, you need to use the rake on a crack in the floor that does not look much different from any...