Makotolia: PS: Just finished Beneath a Steel Sky minutes ago.
zeogold: Ah, nice! What'd you think about it?
Well, I'm never good at reviewing games (or anything else) in English (or in any language), but (spoiler alert!):
1. a robot sidekick who can be "upgraded"!
2. LYNCSPACE! Ahem, well, not that innovative for today's standard, but it must've been quite cool back then;
3. the bear sweater!
4. I encounter every possible death ending without the help of a walkthrough XD
5. there seems to be a glitch? Talking to the boy at a certain point seem to initiate a conversation process without actually showing any dialogue and I can't cancel it either.
6. pussy video!
7. some interest points are too vague in pixel arts to be found. I died to that monster several times...walkthrough to the rescue...
8. not as long as I expected (I thought there would be story of another city at first), but it turns out to be fine. In comparison, Broken Sword feels a bit too long to me ("That's not 'too long', that's 'EPIC', son!"). The ending/climax seems somewhat a rush though. It feels like things are not explained enough, and I'd have to take some time to think over it myself.
9. interesting characters (not sure how it sounds to native speakers, but I kind of enjoy the voice acting of some funny characters), memorable and atmospheric BGM and backgrounds. Bah, just forget what I've just said about I can tolerate its short play time-I still want it to show more of that world.
10. the sense of opening up new areas is good. It needs backtracking-a lot, in fact, but since the locations are not terribly many, and you can always (well, at least until the end) return to the previous areas, it actually make the game feels more non-linear, and make me feel that it's a real city that I have to use what I've encountered and learned so far to solve new puzzles.
Well, so much for now. I'm just a casual AVG player, so probably not so accurate in describing or criticizing things, so please take it easy if I said something that sounds stupid (I'm fine with I saying stupid things ;)