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Sam Max Episode 6: Bright Side Moon Walkthrough Game Guide (PC)
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Release Date:09/01/2007
ESRB Rating: Teen
Genre: Adventure
Publisher: Gametap
Developer: Telltale Games
 
So, the first true episodic game reaches climax. Six months and as many episodes of consistent high quality. Ten to fifteen hours of fun. Untold numbers of adventure-philes happy with the return of their '90s heroes. You could say it's been a job well done for Telltale Games on several levels.

 

But more on that in a moment.

 

Episode 6: Bright Side of the Moon provides a typically irreverent set of encounters for the furry duo. For reasons left utterly unexplained, they're on the moon, chasing down arch-hypnotist Hugh Bliss and faced with plenty of returning characters from all five previous episodes.

It's probably wise not to ponder too deeply on why a posse of redundant talking computers, a hen, the floating stone head of Abe Lincoln and an indignant mole have all found themselves on the surface of the moon (without any breathing apparatus, we note), but perhaps that's the charm of a typical Sam & Max adventure in a nutshell. One minute you're just trying to work out how to get a lead door open, the next you're inside someone's stomach complaining about the stench.

 

As with any episode of Sam & Max there's a fair bit of flitting between the 'base camp' of your office, Bosco's store and Sybil's and whatever new location Telltale has dreamed up. In this instance, you get the standard issue three or four new areas to explore and click on till your heart's content - but no new characters to indulge in crackpot banter with. But that's okay. Having accumulated a fairly weighty cast over the past few months, Telltale has almost treated this one as a greatest hits collection, dropping various members of the cast in seemingly at random in one final surreal hurrah.