Pirates or Zombie Pirates?

[A Black Falcon]

Escape is also FULL of in-jokes. Seriously, people for who that was their first game in the series must have missed so much... but the game was just not as good as the previous ones. Not as good puzzles, not as good graphics (I'd take SoMI's few-color (16?) graphics over it most days, if the art was as good as SoMI's...), not as funny... it just didn't match up, unfortunately. A sad end to the adventure game lineup from its best devleoper. Not an abysmal game, but inferior to all of their others since Maniac Mansion, I believe. Except maybe Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...

As for the controls, I thought that they worked better in Grim than in Escape. Don't know why, but I think so. I was annoyed at the controls in EFMI sometimes, and never really was in Grim... but Grim was so great maybe I didn't notice, while EFMI was underwhelming and I was noticing such things. :) ... Grim a comedy? We've discussed this before. I still say that it isn't. It's a cross. It's got a definitely serious story... which they added humor on top of. Some humor, but not so much that it is a laugh a minuite like Monkey Island. I wouldn't want it that way either, because it'd ruin the serious plot if it was filled with jokes... and some of the humor is serious in the game -- see being killed when dead by being 'sprouted'. Very funny idea, but not so to the characters ingame... :)