Finished "Mean Streets" in 8,5 hours!

This one really was a doozy. I died loads of times during my last couple of playing sessions. I made a habit of saving my game each time before leaving my speeder. And even then a lot of luck was involved in finding the reset buttons of the burglar alarms in time.

Whoops...

I still missed some things, though. I never found the location for Robert Knott and Big Jim Slade, two characters involved with the "Law & Order" party. But I guess talking to them wasn't really necessary, since I found my way to the final showdown.

 

I'm sure there's something interesting in that trash can...

That one took me several tries too. I had to escape a room but had to time it just right to slip through the door a robot had left open. Really had to find the sweet spot, as far away from the switch as I could get and still be able to flip it.

 

Damn, missed the exit again! That darn robot is too fast!

I really had to use a notebook for this game, jotting down all names and location codes, then the colors of the passcards and their passwords. I got about 4 pages of notes.

 

Ominous...

It's a very interesting detective game where you follow lead to lead. Once I got the hang of searching the rooms, I start to like that part of the gameplay as well. But I'm glad games evolved to point 'n click, because it wasn't always easy. It played more like a text adventure, but with supporting graphics, and with choosing the right verbs in a list instead of a text parser.

 

Yay, I saved the world!

Glad I played it though! And looking forward to the other games in the Tex Murphy series! But first some other games