This video game is terrible. Believe it or not this is the fourth in a series of five. I bought the fifth thinking it was the fourth, and looking through the synopsis of the past on the fifth, I learned of this video game, the actual fourth. The art in this video game looks lazy, dirty, and grainy. The music seems overproduced and of a lower quality.
The controls are frustrating at best. In a video game series of open maps (including the newest fifth iteration) the fourth keeps the open maps but instead of moving your mouse around to search and move in your environment, you HAVE to move your character with sloppy controls, navigating a maze of obstacles to search by proximity and direction of facing. Some clues or objects can be TOO well hidden, while many of the puzzles make NO sense and have no clues nor proper foreshadowing to start leading the players down a path of thinking. Not to mention many of these puzzles are locked behind slow and tedious animations that you CANNOT skip; these same animations sometimes HAVE to be repeated more than 5 or 10 times, making a five minute puzzles into a 30 minutes to an hour tedious, sloth.
One of the greatest disappointments is the combat. In EVERY previous version (I haven't played the fifth yet past the main menu) there was a form of insult combat. In this version (the fourth iteration) they repeatedly tease and setup new forms of insult combat to NEVER deliver. Instead they introduced a new version called "Monkey Kombat." In this combat you are forced to not only learn the language of the monkeys but then you're also forced to learn multiple level of an extended rock/paper/scissors-type where the new combat moves have not only NO logical reason to be a counter (e.g. paper WOULD cover a rock), but what counters what is actually randomized every different play through. With no logical path of thinking and no patterns of the past you are forced to arduously and tediously go through animations you cannot skip and must take meticulous notes creating your own chart of sorts. All this completely taking you out of the video game and into your own head. Not only do they tease something they NEVER deliver, they force you to make charts and not enjoy the video game but dissect it. How is that fun?
This series of video games was charming and fun until this horrific mess. Let's hope the fifth fixes all these mistakes and makes up for them.
Communist California produced, this video game insults an entire series. Who ever could have foreseen that California produced things are only meant to destroy and convert? Denny Crane.

This video game is terrible. Believe it or not this is the fourth in a series of five. I bought the fifth thinking it was the fourth, and looking through the synopsis of the past on the fifth, I learned of this video game, the actual fourth. The art in this video game looks lazy, dirty, and grainy. The music seems overproduced and of a lower quality. The controls are frustrating at best. In a video game series of open maps (including the newest fifth iteration) the fourth keeps the open maps but instead of moving your mouse around to search and move in your environment, you HAVE to move your character with sloppy controls, navigating a maze of obstacles to search by proximity and direction of facing. Some clues or objects can be TOO well hidden, while many of the puzzles make NO sense and have no clues nor proper foreshadowing to start leading the players down a path of thinking. Not to mention many of these puzzles are locked behind slow and tedious animations that you CANNOT skip; these same animations sometimes HAVE to be repeated more than 5 or 10 times, making a five minute puzzles into a 30 minutes to an hour tedious, sloth. One of the greatest disappointments is the combat. In EVERY previous version (I haven't played the fifth yet past the main menu) there was a form of insult combat. In this version (the fourth iteration) they repeatedly tease and setup new forms of insult combat to NEVER deliver. Instead they introduced a new version called "Monkey Kombat." In this combat you are forced to not only learn the language of the monkeys but then you're also forced to learn multiple level of an extended rock/paper/scissors-type where the new combat moves have not only NO logical reason to be a counter (e.g. paper WOULD cover a rock), but what counters what is actually randomized every different play through. With no logical path of thinking and no patterns of the past you are forced to arduously and tediously go through animations you cannot skip and must take meticulous notes creating your own chart of sorts. All this completely taking you out of the video game and into your own head. Not only do they tease something they NEVER deliver, they force you to make charts and not enjoy the video game but dissect it. How is that fun? This series of video games was charming and fun until this horrific mess. Let's hope the fifth fixes all these mistakes and makes up for them. Communist California produced, this video game insults an entire series. Who ever could have foreseen that California produced things are only meant to destroy and convert? Denny Crane.