N-Europe: Sam & Max Season 1 (Wii Review)

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."