Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse: The City That Dares Not Sleep... Is here!
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
The City That Dares Not Sleep
It's out!!
Download for PC
Download for Mac
When's it out?
It's out now!
Trailer!
Watch the City That Dares Not Sleep trailer at GameSpot, or in the Telltale Blog!
Where can I see art from the game?
The season-wide trailer and stuff is on the official site. You can see screenshots and a trailer for episode 5 there too.
I demand wallpapers!
Sure, here's a wallpaper for you!
I demand reviews!
Tabstis has helpfully started a thread consolidating all reviews! You can see a select few in the blog.
I DEMAND MARKETING TEXT! SELL ME!
Commence marketing: "An enormous, scaly, floppy-eared creature has put the city on high alert, and Sam assembles a crack team to stop him. To end the mayhem, they must venture … inside … the beast!
Featuring an all star cast of heroes and villains – you’ll be riveted to your seat with each thrilling twist, as you discover the crazed force that’s been orchestrating the madness. And you won’t want to miss the game’s truly shocking conclusion!"
So whoaaa we're all playing the finale now, yeah? What do you guys think?
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
The City That Dares Not Sleep
It's out!!
Download for PC
Download for Mac
When's it out?
It's out now!
Trailer!
Watch the City That Dares Not Sleep trailer at GameSpot, or in the Telltale Blog!
Where can I see art from the game?
The season-wide trailer and stuff is on the official site. You can see screenshots and a trailer for episode 5 there too.
I demand wallpapers!
Sure, here's a wallpaper for you!
I demand reviews!
Tabstis has helpfully started a thread consolidating all reviews! You can see a select few in the blog.
I DEMAND MARKETING TEXT! SELL ME!
Commence marketing: "An enormous, scaly, floppy-eared creature has put the city on high alert, and Sam assembles a crack team to stop him. To end the mayhem, they must venture … inside … the beast!
Featuring an all star cast of heroes and villains – you’ll be riveted to your seat with each thrilling twist, as you discover the crazed force that’s been orchestrating the madness. And you won’t want to miss the game’s truly shocking conclusion!"
So whoaaa we're all playing the finale now, yeah? What do you guys think?
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Thank you for what I'm sure will be a great game and my complaints about minor bugs shall be numorous and berligerant... or is that non existant and quite... I always get those two mixed up.
Agree, I just got there myself. THAT WAS...OMG
Tomorrow.
Have to admit, I saw it coming, but I still loved how well they pulled it off.
Also, so THAT'S where Max keeps his stuff.
I never expected a Sam & Max game to pull on my heartstrings, but this ending was amazing and completely unexpected. Very jarring too, as I went through the last sequence twice just to see if I had missed anything - I actually tried to find an alternate ending!
The episode itself was very well-designed. I love how the story found creative new ways to incorporate the psychic powers into the puzzles, and how so many characters found their way back into the plot. Quite a few good twists and turns too (although I did guess who the main villain was ages ago on a crazy hunch.) Although there were some loose ends that I felt weren't tied up - particularly regarding Sybil, Pudding Lincoln, and Bluster Blaster (or will that be covered in season 4?)
Overall, an amazing episode, and a definite feat in adventure gaming. I honestly can't compare S&M Season 3 to anything else.
Anyway, thank you, team, for an amazing season. Can't wait to see what you do next!
But everybody knows it's really DUCK season.
I F*ING LOVE THIS SERIES TO DEATH
And I'd like to add that whoever wrote Papierwaite this episode is a freaking genius. He was absolutely hilarious. And was it just me, or at the beginning was he checking out Momma Bosco?
Season 3 blew my mind. I haven't been this giddy since I heard there would be a Serious Sam 3 & an American McGee's Alice 2. I haven't enjoyed a cinematic story this much since I saw Pleasentville on the big screen (that's what, 12 years old now?)
Gawd I hope there is a season 4. We've already done TV, the internet, the mafia, sentient statues, giant robots, the moon, zombies, Hell, time travel, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, the presidency, psychic toys, ancient egypt, the dawn of the 20th century, ghosts, mind controll, vampires, Godzilla, Cthulhu, spaceships, yetis, the North Pole, demonic posession, brainswaping, aliens, & clones. What will they come up with next?
Hey guys, please leave potitive reviews for this series at Gamezebo.com & help me nag the site staff to add seasons 1 & 2 to their list. http://www.gamezebo.com/game-directory#filter=alpha&subchannel=0&alph=S
That was the single GREATEST GAME you have EVER created, guys. It was your best game visually, your best game audibly and your best game in terms of gameplay. You have outdone yourselves.
Even when the visuals didn't completely satisfy me in previous Telltale games, or even this season, The City that Dares not Sleep did. It was excellent art-direction wise, animation-wise, lighting-wise, it was a seriously excellent looking game. I have no reservations or worries about visuals on BTTF or Jurassic Park now.
The Audio was the best audio in any Telltale game also. Bringing back VA's from previous seasons, as well as Nicki Rapp from Tales (and 303) was amazing to hear all in one game. Soundtrack was indeed as amazing as was hyped up. This leaves my seriously hoping Jared Emerson Johnson does Back To the Future and Jurassic Park's soundtracks. Apparently Sam had a cold this episode or something? Huh? I didn't notice it, I was listening out for it but I didn't hear anything unusual. I'm sure many David Nowlin naysayers from Season One will have been converted after his fantastic performance this season. These Sam & Max voices are now the iconic voices of the characters (yeah, still preferred Bill Farmer for a while, but S3 changed my mind), and of course, William Kasten is perfect as ever as Max.
Gameplay wise had some excellent puzzles, though maybe easier than most, I prefer my games to be easy by FAR. If it was any harder, I'd have to break the experience and use a walkthrough. So yeah, difficulty wise was perfect and puzzle structure was was also excellent.
Story-wise, there were a lot of throwbacks and references to previous seasons and episodes, but almost none of them felt like they were there just for the sake of it, they all served some sort of purpouse, however little or large it was. I kinda would've liked to have seen Sybil giving birth to a rock, but whatever, it would've killed the ending a bit. And on the subject of the ending...
So...best Telltale Visuals, Audio, Gameplay, but a little bit of a backseat on the plot, good plot by itself, but maybe not what I was expecting from what the other episodes were building upto.
But hey, 3.5/4 ain't bad!
So...overall score...hmm...9.5/10.
I was blown away by this episode, guys. You've topped yourself, and I believe that with this last episode, The Devil's Playhouse is Telltale's best game of them all. Admittedly, I wasn't blown away by previous episodes of S3 looking back on them (most of them are excellent, but not OMG THEY'RE EXCELLENT), this one, though, sold me on the whole season. Thanks so much for this season guys, hope to replay through it multiple times in the future. Can't wait for the DVD!
My order of episodes preference
1. The City that Dares Not Sleep (5/5)
2. The Tomb of Sammun Mak (4.5/5)
3. They Stole Max's Brain (4.5/5)
4. The Penal Zone (4.5/5)
5. Beyond The Alley of the Dolls (3.5/5)
-Monkey
So I guess I'm the only one who's actually really dissapointed in this episode, then! (Spoilers for the entire episode incoming. Seriously, do not read unless you've finished 305)
The puzzles were on the easy side, in my opinion. If you didn't immediately know what to do, a little bit of trial and error should be enough to solve them. There weren't as many items as in episodes from the previous seasons, and there weren't any psychic toys either. Seriously, what was up with that? I thought the psychic powers were supposed to be this season's thing, but this episode didn't really do anything with them, gameplay or story wise.
I really hated how you didn't have Max at your side throughout the entire episode. I mean, really? It already happened in (most of) 303. Honestly, Sam & Max just doesn't feel the same without Max. I understand that the flaming Max heads were there as a replacement, but eh, it just wasn't the same.
The narrator turns out to be the season's big baddie, which was really predictable since the begining of the season. Still, he didn't engineer a master scheme that led to the events that occurred throughout this season. He didn't feel like the season's main villain, but just this episode's main villain (and he wasn't a very good at that, either in my opinion). I'll admit that him being part of Max's brain was a cool twist, but I felt like they could've done so much more with that.
I really disliked the ending. There wasn't any secret mastermind behind it all, or even an epic climax. The episode just suddenly... ended. Max died just for the sake to have a dramatic ending, and they used one hell of a deus ex machina to restore everything back to normal.
Honestly, I may be over criticizing this episode a bit. I still had fun with it, and I'll admit that I have been overhyping myself ever since I finished 304. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think 305 is an ok episode in its own right, but it's really unsatisfactory as the season's big finale. Oh well, all we can do now is to wait and see what season 4 brings us.
The waiting it's going to kill me. At least I have The Blackest Night 1 to read(Yep, it's now out on Brazil) \o/
The Judge's Final Decision
Same as brain surgeon, either before the first season or completely made up. Not that it matters. The joke was she's so fickle about jobs, she's had nearly every job going.
When I saw where Sam was heading, I was expecting him to try and kill himself by throwing himself over the rail or something. I actually think he might have, if a deux ex machina in the form of a time machine hadn't arrived at exactly the right moment, which really freaked me out. I wanted to hug him so badly.
The Dark Wizard far I do know is Papierwaite. Sybil fill out the rest of the jobs.
(Her apparition just Crack me up in this moment. That was SO hilarious)
Why do you think
Best part:
Nah, I just don't want telltale getting complacent with everyone talking about how brilliant this game was. 304 set up so much hype for this episode, and it delivered in every aspect. Well done telltale. Best developers out there.
All those Hit the Road references through this season I just loved.
Funny, this episode has done the exact opposite for me