Supreme League of Patriots - Episode 3: Ice Cold in Ellis

Mixed. There are some fun jokes and puns, making a playthrough worthwhile. However, it also felt like they were trying too hard. It is a nice pickup from a bundle ... supremely satisfactorily sufficient. [h3]Additional Details[/h3] [table] [tr] [td]Operating System[/td] [td]Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x64[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]CPU[/td] [td]AMD FX-8350[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]GPU[/td] [td]GTX 750[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Game Saves[/td] [td]Manually[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Technical Notes[/td] [td]Performance was OK at best[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Supreme League of Patriots – Episode 3: Ice Cold in Ellis is the final installment of the superhero comedy adventure series developed by No Bull Intentions and published by Phoenix Online Publishing. Serving as the climax of the Purple Patriot's story, this chapter combines the series' trademark humor with larger stakes, more dramatic consequences, and a greater sense of urgency. While previous episodes focused heavily on introducing the bizarre world and its eccentric cast, this concluding chapter brings many of the narrative threads together and gives players a chance to see whether its unlikely hero can finally rise above his own flaws. The story follows the Purple Patriot after he has achieved a level of recognition as an official superhero in Manhattan. For a character who has spent much of his journey seeking fame and validation, this should represent a major victory. However, the game's satirical nature quickly turns what appears to be a success into another complicated situation. When a hostage crisis and bank siege capture public attention, the Purple Patriot sees an opportunity to cement his status as a true hero. What follows is a chain of events involving conspiracies,…

I'm not sure how good this trio of games were in the first place, but they definitely didn't age well. It's dialogue heavy, and it uses mediocre jokes to launch into political messages with an occasional point and click adventure sequence. The jokes are mostly circa mid-2000's political jokes where the obnoxious british character calls something racist. If your glory days were mid 2000's politics, you may enjoy. Interestingly these games were made in 2015 so the jokes were already outdated when the game came out. I'd give these a hard pass unless you absolutely can't live knowing there are point and click adventure games you haven't played.

BullTale

After the first two episodes this one is in some respects even more tiring. The jokes are the same, the story is being streched thin, the puzzles are getting unimaginative and the mechanical annoyances (can't speed up travel between locations, clunky character animation) just overshadow any redeeming qualities.

middling but not unplayable, just like the other entries in this series. Some of the (intentionally) offensive jokes come too close to the line for my liking, but that's subjective. The puzzles are about on par with the previous, but will sometimes need you to do things in a stupidly specific order to advance the plot. If you want a point-and-click game to pass the time with, you can do worse.