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The Book of Unwritten Tales (PC)

I was told this game was a classic and funny adventure game. Well it probably was in the 2000s when it came out. It's full of self-referential humor targeting point-click adventure tropes and CRPGs in general. It's also hella slow, but mercifully not as slow as The Lost Crown (and thank god I played that so nothing could possibly be worse than it).

Without the gimmicks, the structure was your classic "find 3 things to solve problem 1 of 3 of a larger problem" structure you're so used to seeing in the Monkey Island games. And it knows it too, makes a joke about it at least twice.

The story? Sure, it was okay. Classic multi-raced unlikely individuals banding together to save the world from certain doom. Nothing we haven't seen before but even at that the game takes a LONG time before any banding together actually happens. First half of the game is each character's individual tale and it only really picks up around 3/4s of it with the last chapter just being a time travel shennanigan of the previous chapter. No final battle. No satisfying conclusion. It was clearly made with a cliffhanger in mind. And now I'm contemplating if its the second game that's actually good instead of this raw thing.

Game hasn't aged well. I've played something far better with the same themes and the motif played straight in Chains of Satinav and that game was infinitely more entertaining and logical.