Tim: I should probably bring up the changes made to some of the puzzles, though, because this is definitely an area that is both good and bad. That’s why I had you play this too, after all. The same goes for the crime scene, which felt a bit more desolate in the original, but that might just be me. There are also one or two areas that I think had a stronger atmosphere in the original, for better or worse Hartridge’s office and the voodoo museum both felt a little more… cluttered, I suppose? I dunno – I think I prefer the new voodoo museum, but the old one had a sort of dusty charm to it. I suppose drawing a few looping sprites is a lot easier than crafting a full 3D model for a bystander, though. It wasn’t so much “this looks better/worse than the original”, but “ooh, so that’s what this location looks like now!” In a vague attempt to be critical, there are definitely a few areas I preferred in the original game, most of which were areas that just felt more crowded back then. Tim: Again: I’ve played the original a lot, so seeing the graphics updated to a higher resolution was actually a bit of a treat. Jackson Square isn’t exactly the prettiest location in the game, but… Other than in the sense that it’s set in the 90s so people don’t have cell phones and so on. The setting and tone are really strong, and haven’t particularly dated.
I can rattle off a bit of information about the Loa, or gris-gris and feel vaguely informed. But you actually get a fair bit of proper religious background with your supernatural investigations. There’s still stuff about spiritual possession for dramatic purposes, of course it’s still an adventure game, not a documentary. The tonal intent with the latter game was obviously very different (and I do love the voodoo lady and her Juju bag) but I think it says a lot about Gabriel Knight’s more serious approach that it’s a title all about voodoo which features a voodoo doll just once. There’s a huge difference here between the way Gabriel Knight goes in-depth with its voodoo research and, say, the more traditional cartoonish way it’s dealt with in Monkey Island 2. Peter: This one is based in New Orleans (or ‘Norlins’ as the local drawling dialect would tend to have it) and centered around voodoo shenanigans.
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