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Back to the Future The Game (PS3)

This game seems like an amazing love letter for anyone who loves BttF. There are a ton of callbacks to the films, the developers managed to get a voice actor who does an uncanny impression of a young Michael J. Fox, and of course, Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doc does a great job. I like the films just fine, but I'm not a fan by any stretch of the imagination, so I mostly judge this game from an outsiders perspective.

It's a decent traditional adventure game. The story is not as good as the films, but that's not shockingfew games can stand up in that sense. It is good enough. Like most Telltale adventure games, it is split into five episodes, each 2-3 hours long. It does a commendable job at avoiding complicated puzzles or logical leaps, although there are a few spots where it's basically 'try everything and see what works.' I got a little stuck in the Speakeasy sequence with George McFly's picture and the final episode when trying to jog Edna's memory, though those are rare exceptions. For a Telltale game, the performance is pretty smooth.

The game hits a lull in the middle. The Citizen Brown stuff is kind of goofy and not really compelling, and the adventure tasks in that episode are not stimulating. It leaks a bit into episode 4, but going back to the main setting helps a lot with that. The finale also feels a little disconnected from the rest of the game. The main conflict wraps up halfway through the fifth episode and then another thing happens that could have maybe been it's own episode, but is resolved in two scenes. Despite this, I still say I enjoyed playing and it's a fun epilogue to that movie trilogy. If you have not seen the movies or don't like them, I think this one is easy to skip.