zork86's Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers review

There may be no way to actually put into words how high-quality the first Gabriel Knight is, and it's likely that it ranks in the best 3 adventures ever — though I wonder how many players, in the pre-Internet FAQs-less age, could manage to play through it: I certainly couldn't have.

I beat the 20th Anniversary remake earlier on in the year with zero help. And just this week beat Knight 2, where I had to seek help to overcome what turned out to be a bug. I'm mostly posting this to brag, but also to say that these games are awesome, and so are the people who play them.

Cheers! A nice (and accurate) thing to say, EmP!

How did you like the remake of GK1? I never played it, because the original game's graphics are fine with me, and I can't imagine playing it without the legendary original voice cast.

The original game boasted the talents of Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Jim Cumming, Leah Remini and Michael Dorn; the anniversary edition… doesn’t. That's the biggest downgrade; the VA work in the remake is not bad by any sense, but doesn't stack up with the actors from either Sins or the live action crew from The Beast Within.

Otherwise, I found it a really good remake. The structure's been messed around with a little so that each day/chapter feels as important as the last, while the original had a lean middle phase, and I don't miss the dumb icon system in the original. I think it's a solid modernizing of a classic game, bringing in a lot of quality of life improvements but being very true to the original source. I should review it, really.