Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne

Right, Good news bad new kinda situation here - I'd ask which you'd prefer but you're currently not actually reading this as I write it. The Good news is that this is a solid game, solid mechanics, I only managed to break the game once by phasing through a cage of fried nimoths in the plunder room. Could've happened to everyone. The game keeps to the trusty humour of Girl Genius, it has tons of lore to discover and the puzzles are actually interesting, even managed to stump me for a few minutes once or twice. Really, solid game so far. Now for the bad news. HALF THE STORY IS MISSING! if you've read the comic you'll become slightly miffed at various missing cast members, you'll miss what goes on outside the castle at the same time, which would give this game a much more condensed feeling of urgency. This story should've begun all the way when Agatha enters Mechanisburg and shouldn't have ended until The Great Personal Disaster of Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. (I... THINK I might have managed to hint at it without directly saying it, hopefully people understand what I mean, then again - they ARE people.) It IS a charming little game, but it deserved to be so much much much more. I really hope Professors Phil & Kaja give the game approach another go sometime. Because this game is only an hors d'oeuvre. FOR SCIENCE!

All fine until the introduction of the vents and propeller, which created an essentially unsolvable jumping puzzle. 30 tries later I simply had to give up because I was unable to make it past this part. There's simply too little leeway between total failure and success, and insufficient ability to preserve progress.