Overseer - Cinematic Edition - Part 14

The clocktower fight with Slade commences, Tex heads for Alcatraz, gets past the guard, and steps into the Overlord chamber.

Actually, I would've liked to have seen more of Richard Norton in this game, though I could've done without the sequences where he could kill you. Now that I think about it, however, I think those sequences were necessary.

People like to complain about deaths in adventure games, but really, the most intense part of those experiences are the sections where your life is on the line. Back in the day, most FMV games made it so that you could die literally at any juncture (Angel Devoid comes to the forefront of my mind). The creators of Tex Murphy, however, seemed to get the mixture just right. All three of Tex's FMV games have one or two, or possibly three sections where death is a possibility. The rest of the game, however, you cannot die.

I do however agree that adventure games that can kill your character should have a retry function instead of forcing you to load a previous save. That just seems to make sense.

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[ufuckfacesonofabitch]

Good ol Tex Murphy. The Pandora Directive is my favourite but I think this comes in ahead of Under A Killing Moon!

[ErikNikolai]

My favorite FMV game is "Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within." I think we could only die at two occasions, and one of them, when you're hunting werewolves with Baron Von Glower, was one of the most intense parts.

My adrenaline was really pumping in Phantasmagoria, when you were being chased by Don in the last chapter. He could kill you at any moment. The same goes for the demon chase.