This is perhaps the single most amusing and entertaining old school RPG I have played. If you like tons of humor, including referential humor, and you also like going on a quest to save the galaxy with the most ragtag band of misfits imaginable, then this is the game for you.

The game's story is simultaneously engaging and outrageous. The gameplay is a little clunky but it controls just fine. Mostly my issue with it is it is counterintuitive; to interact with your environment, you have to move the mouse around until a little icon pops up, and you move the camera by mousing to the screen edge. I'd rather play with a gamepad, but it isn't supported. The graphics are really, really, REALLY old school but they get the point across. If graphics are an important thing to you, don't expect much from this game. The sound is surprisingly good for its time; I particularly like that most of the game is fully voiced. I don't find the game to have much replayability, however, although it can be worth it to find what you missed. Irritiating as it is, I recommend playing this game with a guide for all the side quests. Many of the side things you can do in Anachronox do not appear in your quest log, and it is vry easy to miss content. In my case, I probably will play Anachronoc again every two years or so. The story is that worthwhile.

Oh, and don't wprry about leveling up, the game auto levels you to the 'minimum level' when you reach certain areas, which makes a good tactician very unlikely to lose the game. Especially if you keep items on hand for healing and so forth. If you want grinding, exhausting challenge and the need to level up as much as possible, play it on hard.

(Overall 9/10, Story 10/10, Gameplay 9/10, Graphics 4/10, Sound 9/10, Replayability 7/10)