Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series

i grew up on the NES versions so for me this sucks. no music. menus make less sense. hard pass.

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Has a really fun old-school adventure game feel, with bizarrely hilarious consequences for trying stupid things. Just my style.

Déjà Vu is a fascinating relic from the very early days of point-and-click adventures. You wake up in a bar restroom with no memory and must piece together who you are and what happened — all while navigating a desktop-style interface built from several separate windows that can be moved and resized. The pacing is harsh by modern standards: instant deaths, trial-and-error and frequent reloads are part of the experience. Yet the game’s structure is logical, its atmosphere is excellent and the window-based interface is far more coherent than it first appears. It feels both ahead of its time and completely isolated from the direction the genre later took. I can’t say I loved the cliché noir plot, but the design is clever and the historical value of playing this on its original terms is surprisingly rewarding. An unusual retro experience — and worth it if you’re curious about where graphic adventures began.

Very good old school legit game. Difficult in a good way for me at least.

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