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Sam & Max Episode 6: Bright Side of the Moon

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Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Genre: Adventure > General Released: Mar 28, 2007 Players: 1 Website

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Mike Hommel: 8

Looks like all the sound issues are cleared up (or perhaps I'm just playing it on a different computer)! Nothing to say about this game - everything said about the previous episodes stands again (except the sound complaints). This is the end of the series, and I would definitely not recommend it unless you play the earlier entries first and enjoy them. This one seems to be almost entirely 'in-jokes' from the previous episodes.

Brian Clair: 8

Sam and Max is actually pretty difficult to review, since all the technical merits remain largely static from one episode to the next, as does the gameplay. If you've been following Season 1 so far and liked what you've seen, then Bright Side of the Moon is a must buy (and vice versa). I ran into a few minor technical bugs with this title, but nothing major. Any casual or hardcore adventure fan should pick up the entire Season for what can only be called a truly unique experience.

William Usher: 8

Bright Side of the Moon: Out of all the Episodes, I actually think this is my favorite. The pacing for this game was a lot more uniformed and substantially more fun. Also, the puzzles (for a Sam & Max game) seemed to make sense and that made it a bit easier to figure out what to do next. That was probably one the biggest drawbacks to former iterations of the series, because many of the puzzles seemed very impractical and that, in turn, hurt the steady pace for progress. But honestly, I think TellTale got it completely right. The dialogue was smirk inducing at least, and carried enough one-liners and pop-culture jocularity to keep just about anyone entertained. While the music played a lesser role in this episode, I think all the other components came together well enough to compensate for this minor drawback.

Caspian Prince: 7

I refer the honourable reader to last month's roundup, which essentially describes this game: it is virtually identical to Sam & Max : Reality 2.0, except that it's a different story. In other words it's slick, polished, excellent, etc. (though I did have one gripe in that I for some reason couldn't exit or skip during the intro). If you liked the other Sam and Maxes and you're up for a bit more clicking around and silly jokery, then this is for you. I have scored it slightly more conservatively this time around using my ultra-top-secret Consistent Score-O-Meter, and it lost a point because it's just another episode of more of the same, and another point because I didn't really feel compelled to go and play it any more than I had to for the sake of a review, and another point because I didn't feel compelled to buy it (and this is probably because I've not finished Reality 2.0). But essentially we're looking at another very solid title.