Love Letter from 2006
There is nothing else to say about Sam and Max: Save the world other than it's the exact same, multi-episode game from 2006 from 'Culture Shock' to 'Reality 2.0' and the season finale 'Bright Side of the Moon'.... with some extra bells and whistles.
It's a Point and Click mystery solving game wtih each case just as or more bizzare than the previous one. Though if anyone remember's this Duo before the age of video games, bizzare is their specialty; so much so that Chtullu walking down the street with a tommy gun and uzi, swallowing the current President of United States of America while singing the Oscar Meyer jingle using bag pipes made from a cow's stomach harvested from a factory made of glass and orangatangs is basically a weekday afternoon occurance to them, right after lunch.
The whole mouthful of a paragraph sums up what they are, Max being the psychotic one out for justice in his own derranged metal state and Sam being the middle man who just enjoys being a freelance police officer enjoying the company of his partner. Just watching the two interact with job after job and the puzzles you need to solve is entertaining in itself.
Any big changes from the 2006 version to this one? Well, the screen ratio has improved drastically, a FAR better use of lighting from scene to scene and in sections of chapters, such as the day to night change in Chapter 1 Culture shock near the end when you find the 'Mental' home for child actors... and the soundtrack is vastly improved; The Soda Poppers tune, Too Useful to Boot, War, All of it feels like a refreshing breath of fresh air.
The puzzles to the classic require a little creative thinking unless you've already played this and begin blazing through everything and some are just entertaining to figure out/
I'm happy to see a remaster, but would pay to see another 'new' season or installment to this pairs capers and insanity.
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