The Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing

In the weird world of The Next Big Thing, real monsters monster movie star, small jobs are done by robots, and people say "Ayo" and "Aya" instead of "Hello" and "goodbye" for no apparent reason. This point and click adventure amazing graphics to create an exciting alternative reality the vision of Hollywood. But sometimes the border impenetrable mysteries, and a poorly implemented system tracks these barriers to the next big thing to live up to its name.

Play two characters: enthusiastic entertainment reporter Liz Allaire and jaded sports writer Dan Murray. While attending a gala at the Monster Factory Movie Photos MKO, Liz stumbles upon a sinister regime, and quickly finds himself in over his head. Dan reluctantly sets out to save her, and with your help thwart the evil plan. (After all, she promised him two tickets to the big boxing match on Friday night.) One might expect a Hollywood in which the characteristics of the creatures that are produced by a monster owned and operated in the study strangers feel familiar, but soon learn that the monsters of The Next Big Thing are a bit like people. Most of them just want to be accepted in society than they are. Experience unforgettable monsters in his research, as the poet of enormous pain, aspiring new and interesting that causes anxiety about what may be the inspiration to write poetry about it. But the duo are not journalism are the stars of the show.

Unfortunately, the charm of the characters of the Next Big Thing are powerless to solve the puzzles frustrating, sometimes you have to advance through the story. Like many point-and-click adventures, characters move and pick up some environments, which can be useful, from baseball bats and the robot head. You can visit the box the other characters', and inventory items to combine with each other or use these elements for the development of environmental issues. Many of the puzzles make a sort of adventure game in mind (of course, in order to get a drunk robot!) And that's just tough enough to deal with them to respect the game while pulling still for long. And fumbling around for a while 'is fun, especially when playing as Dan, thanks to his sarcastic response to many of your off-base suggestions.

There are also times when your character does not take the voice they need, until it is needed. For example, you can have a clear idea of ​​how to use a different character is in his hand, but as you might try, you can not get directions to give you. However, if you return it after the character to do other things and talk to him again, your character suddenly pushed harder, and the object is up to you. This means that you can spend a lot of time going in circles and talk to people who have already spoken over and over again just to see what has changed. When you are thinking two steps ahead, it's frustrating having to wait for your character to be with you.

The Next Big Thing has a hint system, but it's not a good idea. To access them all, choose the easy choice difficult when you start the game There is no way to adjust the severity later, so if you play several hours into the game and then get confused, the only way to reach the point of this is to restart the whole game on easy and go through the motions of reading up to this point. In addition, there is only one index available to any given situation. Sometimes this trick can make your next step clear, other times it may be too vague to be of some help.

Thanks to the quality of the art design, the graphics are excellent. While the game has no ties to a certain period of time, fashion, cars and grid environments to evoke the glitz and glamor of the golden age of Hollywood, but in a golden era where monsters and robots are common. The sumptuous visual effects will take you to the era of class and elegance, and there are frequent scenes that would not look out of place in an animated film of high quality. But despite the beauty of the game, the characters you want to move a little faster, slow will make you double-click the desired destination to be immediately warp from one place to another (unlike, for example the race) , which speeds things up, but it seems unnatural. And the characters are not always aligned properly when talking about the other times looks like Dan looks away into space while continuing the conversation.

It 'a shame that a couple of infuriating puzzles and other things that weigh on this trip that has never been beautiful. We are in the middle of some adventure of the Renaissance, while the graphics would not have been possible ten years ago, the Next Big Thing is too often frustrating aspects of the recall so many games like that anymore. At $ 30, this is an adventure at an affordable price, and when you reach the end, who have grown attached to the main characters and intrigued by the world. But the experience was not without its painful moments. Next Big Thing is a lot of vintage Hollywood, but is far from a classic.

Dan cynical dialogue is often a good laugh, and even though Liz has no fantasy sequitur to say makes it just seems strange at first, his happy-go get-em attitude at the end you win more. A touch of romantic tension between two very different leaders makes you root for them and want to see the story through, unfortunately, they spend very little interaction with the game, and their relationship seems underdeveloped as a result.

But there are some problems that can inspire you to bang your head against the wall, the pain, as this poet of light pain. Even when you finally find a solution to one of these puzzles (or simply run into it), the response was inspired by a success to solve a difficult problem, but asking how they should get the hang of it, and these moments the harsh ' whole experience.

The voice acting is very good, Dan sounds like a good-hearted man, whose cynicism is often seen as a surprise to him, and enthusiastic fan of Liz serves as an ideal counterpoint to Dan, it's easy to accept that these opposites are reluctantly attracted to each other.