taczillabr: Gray Matter $10.20 at gamersgate
Who amongst you, GOGers, played it? Opinions?
I played it and adored it. Storywise, it's an excellent successor to the Gabriel Knight series and shows that Jane Jensen is still very good at what she does. She dabbles again in the quasi-supernatural, this time with a poltergeist and a dream study, and the result is very effective. Robert Holmes' score is not too shabby either.
The gameplay is actually pretty interesting. The female lead is a street magician, so a lot of the puzzles are solved through performing tricks in detail: hiding items up one's sleeve and switching them out with another item, for instance. Of course, the game is very controlling of these and won't let you screw them up, so wrapping your brain around how the trick would work until the game says you're correct is the only requirement (and typically spelled out for you by her magic book).
There's also an option to turn on labels for clickable items rather than forcing the typical adventure game pixel hunt. It's more sensible than Telltale's use of them in Back to the Future, and you can turn them on and off at will.
Altogether, I'd recommend it to any adventure game fan, especially at that price.
