Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™

I like this game but don't get the Steam version. Ideally this would be the FM Towns version with the best sound, but leaving that aside it's not even the VGA version. It's the version with the worst sound, a sort of tinny DOS sound. Play the VGA or better yet FM Towns version.

[b]‘What does someone have to do to get a good omen around here?’[/b] [i]Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade™[/i] is a point-and-click adventure game loosely based on the film of the same name. I was excited to try this given that I read more than fifty [i]Indiana Jones[/i] novels and comic books in preparation for both this and a few other [i]Indiana Jones[/i] computer games. Besides that, I also enjoyed some of LucasArts’s other point-and-click adventure games, so I had high hopes for this one. I was expecting to have a mostly smooth time with it. I was wrong. At first it seems all right. Getting past Barnett College was smooth sailing (except for one isolated crash). I was intrigued exploring it, Henry’s residence, and Venice. However, it was not too long before I got stuck and consulted a video guide, which showed somebody grabbing books that almost anybody else would have missed, but more importantly I was baffled — having not seen the film in a while — that our hero had to dig into a spot with a metal post rather than an ordinary tool. Even more ridiculous, though, was seeing a patron refuse to part with a crucial wine bottle until our hero examined it, whereafter the patr…

Cute and funny that replicates the story and dialogue with it's own unique twists from the actual film, but gameplay is certainly dated and not something I would consider fun. A lot of the progression can be softlocked without a save, along with the fact that some of it doesn't even follow the movie and can be very confusing

Warning: press Alt+S to remove that annoyingly ugly smoothing filter. At the time, there was already a nice leap forward in graphics compared to [b]Maniac Mansion[/b] and [b]Zak McKracken[/b]. Gone are the lanky, blocky, and barely animated characters, bn favor better proportions and more frames of animation, along with very nice locales; I especially dig the sections with top view. The interface also starts becoming more familiar (to people like me who got their start with [b]Monkey Island[/b], that is). The game is quite short but has great replayability, as entire sections allow for several different approaches; a few can even be skipped outright, so there's plenty to try. You can even change some details of the ending compared to the movie. The only real blight is the combat, which was underdeveloped to begin with and hasn't improved with the years; to the developers' credit, they designed things in such a way that you will never need it if you play correctly, making it clear it's meant to be a last resort. You also have to keep several save games at hand because this is still a game where you can die or, worse, do or forget something that prevents further progression. It tak…

bORING AND NO INSTRUCTIONS

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade isn’t just a movie tie-in – it’s one of those classic Lucasfilm Games (LucasArts) adventures where every screen oozes atmosphere and every puzzle feels like part of the story, not just an obstacle. You follow the film’s main beats – Venice, the catacombs, the zeppelin, Castle Brunwald, the Grail – but the game adds enough extra details and choices that it doesn’t feel like you’re just rewatching the movie in pixel form. There are multiple ways through several situations: talk your way past guards, sneak, or do it the Indy way and start swinging punches. For an old-school adventure, that flexibility still feels surprisingly modern. What really stands out is how the Grail Diary is used. Instead of being just another inventory item, it’s basically a physical puzzle book you’re expected to read, study, and use to solve the final trials. It’s a brilliant mix of game and “real world” that you don’t see much anymore. The puzzles are mostly fair, but this is still an old adventure game: you can absolutely paint yourself into a corner if you’re careless, and a few solutions are more “late 80s logic” than actual logic. But when you figure something out o…