N-Europe's Iun Hockley writes: "The point and click genre seems to be enjoying something of a minor revival on the Wii: we've had Zack and Wiki, we're getting episodic instalments of Strong Bad and now we have the excellent Sam and Max: Season One. What on Earth is going on?
Actually, that's a question you'll be asking yourself a lot throughout the fiendishly difficult puzzles and situations that make up this game. This game is quite possibly one of the most difficult and demanding pieces of software to ever grace a console. If you find Professor Layton fun, you will love Sam and Max.
And it is the large anthropomorphic dog and psychokinetic rabbity-thing that really make this game – without their witty asides and hilarious come backs, this really would just be one long session of confusion and frustration. Using the Wii Remote as a pointer you can direct Sam to interact with various objects and people in the background. Sometimes these objects only work when used with others, some are total red herrings put their to distract you. Others seem to offer a path through the obstacle but they lead you in totally the wrong direction."
From Xfire: "Bunnies are often depicted in media and popular culture as small, fluffy, adorable little buck-toothed bundles of cuteness, so far as deifying a rabbit and incorporating it into Easter traditions, somehow associating the mammal with colourful eggs and the consumption of unhealthy quantities of chocolate effigies made in its image. However, not all lagomorphs are love and cuddles - as Australia would be happy to tell you - and in video games, more often than not rabbits will be psychopathic murderers.
Since the brief season in which the ritualistic worship of a paranormal rabbit is socially acceptable is upon us, let's take a look, in no particular order, at the best and baddest hares in video games who could send the Easter Bunny packing."
How is Fran from Final Fantasy XII missing? ;-) She is the most badass Rabbit ever been in a video game!
I would add a couple honorable mentions. Vibri from Vib Ribbon and Robbit from Jumping Flash.
Bucky O'Hare says hello even though he only had one game.
Jiminy Christmas Eve in a padlocked sweatbox, Jump Dash Roll has dug up Sam and Max's first episodic adventure and given it the Brutal Backlog treatment! Is it worth jumping back into the Desoto for? Here's the review.
On this week's episode of Second Opinion, HPP's I Coleman says that Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is better than Grim Fandango. He says some other stuff, too, but that's all anybody's gonna remember.
