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Anyway, the end of The Devil’s Playhouse.

I think it takes a ton of guts to basically remove the tools you’ve been using for the whole season from the last episode. No Max, no psychic powers. No, the puzzles are designed as Sam vs Said Psychic Powers, which kind of works, in a way. It was a fun episode, certainly, but I don’t know if it was really the dramatic finale I wanted.

Basically, since guy who obviously wasn’t going to be the villain was, you didn’t really have any sort of tension. Hell, you don’t even have any sort of showdown. It’s simply all about dealing with Max’s insides in various ways. Sure, you get to use the Astral Projector again near the end, but it doesn’t really feel anywhere near as clever as the Tomb of Sammun-Mak, since that entire episode was designed around it. It’s much more straightforward.

The main issue was that I felt like I knew most of the things I was supposed to do, but not the order in which to do them. I immediately knew many solutions, but couldn’t enact them when I thought of them, and that left me more confused than I really should have been. Normally, things don’t go that way. I either immediately know what I need to get up to, or I have no clue, and go wandering about until I get some item that makes me go “a-HA!” Basically, knowing the solution but not knowing how to implement it creates frustrating situations. “I’ve figured this out! Let’s get on with it!”

Still, the main appeal of these games is the comedy and writing, and for the most part this episode was completely on par with that. I didn’t really have any issues, and I certainly enjoyed it. The pseudo-sad ending was played pretty well exactly how one would have wanted, which I could appreciate, and it wrapped it up nicely.

Yep, if you were to buy one season of Sam and Max, this is definitely the one. They improved their formula in so many ways, it’s hard not to be impressed. Plus, now that I had cleared that from my plate, I was free to play the first episode of Back to the Future. But I’ll talk about that another time.