r/adventuregames

This genre is new to me (only really got into playing these in the past few years) but I have been gaming since the 1980s so I am aware of many of what consider to "classics" or "must plays".

I am curious, however, what are some of these games that you out there, reading this, have tried and despite everyone heaping praise on the game, you just cannot enjoy? And what about the game kills it for you?

For me right now its "The Longest Journey". I started playing it back in Feb and dropped it, and just came back and ran across a character who repulsed me so hard I am considering just giving up on it. I like the visuals, the music, and the voice acting. But I find the writing, puzzle design, and characters to be kind of just...not my thing (outside of April, she is cool I like her).

Kathy Rain 2 primarily takes place in a fictional American city called Kassidy, and I've been trying to puzzle out where it's meant to be set. A line in the newspaper mentions a regular bus line being set up between the downtown area and Hollywood, but then there's this line:

\"Well, in the old days, that place was a famous site for burning witches at the stake.\"

All of the witch trials in America took place on the east coast, with the very last one taking place in 1878 in Ipswich (and a man was the accused witch in that case.) Further, we didn't burn witches in the US - those who were sentenced to death were usually hanged (or, in one case, Giles Corey was tortured to death by pressing, but he wasn't convicted, and some others died in jail.)

I know this is a fictional story with fictional history and a fictional city, but man these details threw me. Maybe it's because it was made by a Swedish team who didn't know much context about the US.

EDIT:

Apparently, according to the game’s designer, it’s meant to be a fictional stand-in for Kansas City:

>Early in the development I did have Kansas in mind, with Kathy living in Kansas City. To avoid constraints, I later opted to change it and set the game in a fictional state (with Kathy living in a fictional city), neither explicitly mentioned by name. 
"McConnell" ended up sticking, even though it was no longer supposed to directly correspond to its real life equivalent. Same thing with the "KCU" abbreviation at the university, which was originally supposed to mean something like "Kansas City University".
I'll probably clarify all of these points if there is a Kathy Rain 2 :)

I feel like this adventure game flew a bit under the radar. Has anyone here played it?

I love this game. It makes a lot of sense to me that Julia Minamata was inspired so much by it for Crimson Diamond, which is also delightful. I just had this thought though, if>!you go directly to the bathroom after gaining control of Laura and take a shower, you are murdered, a la Psycho. !<However, if you keep playing through to the end you discover >!that Lillian is the murderer. In other words, Lillian drags Laura out to the bayou on a rickety raft only to briefly introduce her to her entire family and then promptly slash her to death in the shower twenty minutes later. With her entire family strewn about the house. !<And it's the only bathroom in the house. Again, I love Colonel's Bequest, just pointing this curious in-game eventuality out.

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