Brain Hotel: Remodeled

This is an updated version of an old flash adventure game. Besides new graphics and a couple of items on new places, the game has exactly the same solutions like the original version. You are Ed, a regular person who drives a delivery truck for business. His once-happy marriage was shattered when his wife fled with their dog. That occurred when the dog encountered an anomaly and developed the ability to walk on two legs. The unpleasant reality is that Ed lives in a highly exceptional town full with superheroes and villains. The story begins with a delivery to the Brain Hotel. There is a villain convention, so your first challenge is finding the correct room. Once there, you discover that the delivery contains a weapon that one supervillain intends to use to destroy the entire hotel. You can not let that happen, therefore you’re told to find a few supplies for a helpful robot to make a counter-weapon. This is an old-school adventure game, which means that moving a mouse over a hotspot does not offer you the most appropriate action. There is also no magical button that will disclose all available hotspots. To perform an action, you must first choose one of the six options (look, …

It's good in terms of gameplay but it lacks that charm the original had. I can't really reccomend this version tbh. I would reccomend the original version however and you can buy it for a dollar off itch.io and still support pinhead games.

Pros - Basic enough graphics but the cell shading comic book style is nice. - Decent voice acting - Good dialog, plenty of humor. - Pretty good puzzle design, trickier than I expected. - Interesting world full of quirky characters, I'd like to see more of this universe with a bigger scope and budget. Cons - Every time you get off the elevator your character is stuck in a walk animation for a few seconds. Its very minor but just gets irritating after several times. - The verb table ads quite a lot of extra permutations, every time I was stuck it was down to not using the correct verb. It probably added at least an hour to my play time. Overall its a solid point and click and good value for the price. Recommended.

Cringe.

I didnt play the original, so this is completely new to me. Nonetheless it felt really nostalgic somehow. I love these curated games. I tried checking out the comic from talesoftheodd on the internet archive but it seems gone. But i stumbled upon aalgar.com and i recommend checking out the audio plays, like "Tales of the Odd (2016)" and "Nick Bounty: A Brick Full of Bullets (2018)". + Great style + Memorable characters + Sufficient interface + Professional voice acting - Short (but thats ok) - Unpolished here and there (thats also ok) Conclusion: Feels like you just picked up a quirky single issue comic at the flea market during summer holidays.

Fun, silly adventure game. Some voices were changed from the original, which is a shame, but still great fun. Ran well on Linux.