We’ve seen an avalanche of steps in recent years to reinvent gaming into something new, but amongst all the shiny new tech I still have a soft spot for a genre that is having to work so damn hard to crawl back into the public attention. Yes, I’m talking about the humble point and click. Originally responsible for a whole whack of PC classics (The Dig, Monkey Island, Discworld, Simon the Sorcerer, Broken Sword, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, Beneath a Steel Sky… ok, I’m going to abandon this list here. There’s just too many!) we did see the Point and Click have a brief resurgence on the 360. But I want more.
Sure, there’s a few games out there. The only problem is that barring Grey Matter, which is on my rental list and due anytime now, I’ve played all the worthwhile games, and I’m not being picky! I don’t really use my PC for gaming anymore, I’m a console only girl, but it’s reasons like this that I do lament my choice of platform. Telltale have done wonders for the cause. I’ve played all four Wallace and Gromit adventures, and both the Sam and Max episodes. Thanks to LucasArts I’ve replayed Monkey Island and finally got round to its sequel. Hell, I’ve even played all three CSI games and Sherlock Holmes, although I do set the limit at NCIS which scored a whopping 36/100 on Metacritic (there’s only so many bad reviews you can read before you have to abstain). Basically, once I receive Grey Matter, I’m done.
I look into the future releases and all I can find is the next Sherlock Holmes. It’s a damn good job I still have my humble DS to broaden my possibilities slightly, but is my love of the genre really going to force me back to PC gaming, or are we going to see another uprising? Come on guys, so many classics came out of this genre for a reason ‒ the mind-bending logic appeals to many a slightly kooky gamer and we must have it back! Until the console world catches up, I guess I’ll have to stock up on DS games, and hope that Grey Matter can scratch my point and clicking itch.
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