Reply To: Memories of BASS

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I must not have played BASS until it was supported on ScummVM, still a long time ago but I think this will be the first time actually on DOS. It’s not a game I remember much beyond a few plot points. I played through most of it last night and think I’m only about 30 minutes off the end. I’m less keen that some of you guys to be honest. It’s a decent game but nothing about it is outstanding for me. They may have a famous artist involved but I wouldn’t say it looks better than other games of the same era. The dialog keeps things light hearted, with obvious thefts at times from the likes of Blackadder, but doesn’t give much depth to the characters. The voice acting might be the strongest point, it’s all well done for the era with some appropriate regional accents. I feel like I should be drawing up a list of adventure games with Northern English accents in them at this point as I seem to keep running into them this year.

There is nothing particularly wrong with it. The puzzles are OK and I’m not finding it too hard or easy. I need to remember to save more often as some of the deaths have caught me without a recent save. BASS came out the same month as Sam and Max though and can’t really compete. Still a fun game and definitely worth playing, just not a classic. I’d be with that PC Zone review I posted in the 70-80% rating.