Post originally by Dan Davenport at 2004-05-07 07:08:09
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Overall, nice job on the review!

I have to say, though, that I found the game slipping from the style of the movie in much more than small ways. In fact, the humor is almost "wackier" than that of the cartoon.

The problem this game has is that it misses the point of the movie's humor: for the most part, it wasn't the <i>situation</i> that was funny, but rather the characters' <i>reactions</i> to the situations. I suspect that the authors felt that being faithful to this premise would have resulted in a comedy game that didn't really look like a comedy game, and so they inserted all the cartoonish aspects. Unfortunately, the result was a comedy game that doesn't really resemble the source material. From what I've heard of it, the <b><i>Men in Black</i></b> game had the same problem.

This, incidentally, is one thing that impressed me about the <b><i>Red Dwarf</i></b> RPG: the authors resisted the temptation to insert extra wackiness, understanding that most of the humor would be the job of the characters.

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Dan Davenport