Earth Must Die

If you've ever wanted to play a game in which you take the part of Nandor the Relentless from What We Do In The Shadows, this is the closest you're going to get for now. It's like an interactive late-night Channel 4 comedy show. Brilliant voice cast, hilarious script, great tweaks to the standard point and click adventure formula. Can't wait to play more, but more than happy to give this an enthusiastic recommend already. EDIT: Finished the game. Enjoyed it a lot. Many memorable moments, and it's interesting how the game manages to still have some decent puzzles despite no conventional inventory and the main character not being willing to use his own hands for anything. Adventure game veterans will probably breeze through it, but that's no bad thing when the main attraction here is the story, voice acting and animation. It's not a "choices matter" game, but there are some notably different scenes if you play things a bit differently at certain points. Just go with your gut when you first play, though -- there are no "wrong" answers! Big thumbs up overall. Here's hoping Size Five is able to do some more similarly ambitious titles in the future, because this was very successful at what it was doing -- and if this kicks off a trend of adventure games with all-star British comedian voice casts I am 100% on board.

No, this isn't like playing a saturday morning cartoon, or an old school adult swim series. Maybe that's what it tried to be but it failed. The writing sucks and isn't funny at all and the gameplay is even worse. There's no way I'm going to finish this and I don't know how I even sat through 4 hours of it.

Irreverent, Puerile, and very, very British. The game shoots for the writing of Douglas Adams, the hand-wavy science of Red Dwarf, and the comic timing of both. And it comes within spitting distance of both. VValak is a vile and unlikable toady, and so makes for a perfect adventure game protagonist. The world is brought to life by an art style that is simultaneously garish and wonderful, and through a who's-who of great voice actors who will prompt a "oh it's THAT one from the telly!" reaction. The progress throughout is fairly linear as VValak's insistence to not carry anything requires most puzzle solutions will only require what is present on the screen at the time to complete, and the narrative through-line finds itself exploring long cul-de-sacs that don't particularly mean much in the grand scheme of things. But neither of these things is a particularly difficult thing to get past and the jokes consistently are thrown at you at such a relentless pace it's hard to not get dragged along on whatever nonsense it throws at you. A firm contender for the best point and click game of the year.