Sam and Max are icons of adventure gaming with adaptations of the comics of Steve Purcell holding a place in many gamer’s hearts. Sam and Max Hit the Road was part of the LucasArts Golden Age of Adventure titles that is so fondly remembered after all. After LucasArts left the adventure game market, many of their developers left to form Telltale Games and started a second golden age of adventure games before going under themselves. One notable game from the developer was the return of Sam and Max in a long awaited follow-up to their classic adventure in the form of Sam and Max Save the World. The was released episodically and was then followed up with additional seasons of content for the well received game that proved to be a hit in their own right.
With the fall of Telltale, Skunkape games has taken the reigns of Sam and Max and has remastered the Telltale game for PC and Switch. The story is the same, but the presentation has been given a facelift with improved visuals and sound that makes the game fit in with the modern generation of gaming. For this review, the Switch version was played and fit the console surprisingly well. The controls work perfectly with buttons and analogue stick, but the Switch touch screen works amazing as well here and gives the game the classic point and click feel that will delight fans of the classic games. The gameplay is not all just puzzles though, as there are some sections where the gameplay changes up a bit. This includes driving segments where you must use a gun on vehicles and other objects.
Sam and Max Save the World has a very zany plot that I will not spoil here, because the narrative is so key to the game that a spoiler really does take away from the experience. The puzzles may take you some time to figure out, but will make sense when you realize the logic the game’s world runs on is of a different type of insanity. Experiment a lot and you will find an answer, and you will have a laugh the while time you are doing so. Sam and Max Save The World has the same high quality of writing that the best of LucasArts classics did, and the wit and charm is true to what Sam and Max should be.
You can play any of the episodes from Season One here, and it is my hope that the later seasons, Sam and Max Beyond Time and Same and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse, will come also. This is a fantastic port of an amazing adventure game and one that should delight any fan of the genre.
Disclaimer: A review key was provided