Sam & Max Episode 202: Moai Better Blues

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User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16

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  1. JimboH.
    Jan 18, 2008
    7
    This episode's strongest trait is the puzzle difficulty and creativity. This is the first S&M game to make heavy use of items (some of them completely useless) and other tactics to mislead you. The best part is that the puzzle solutions are still logical, but are difficult enough I authentically got stuck twice (with hints off), which never happened to me in any of the previous This episode's strongest trait is the puzzle difficulty and creativity. This is the first S&M game to make heavy use of items (some of them completely useless) and other tactics to mislead you. The best part is that the puzzle solutions are still logical, but are difficult enough I authentically got stuck twice (with hints off), which never happened to me in any of the previous episodes. Took me 5+ hours. Would be an 8, but I tacked off one point for Moai voice acing (they don't sound like stone statues...) and for the beginning, which did not feel very well put together (a triangle chasing Sybil? Please...).… Expand
  2. hellznrg
    Jan 30, 2013
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall, I liked the game, but I just found it too difficult. I did get through the game with liberal uses of a walkthrough, but I didn't like the fact that I had to use one :P Some people did like the challenge, but for the rest of us who have a real life and want to get back to it as soon as possible, games that are too difficult aren't very enjoyable. Also, I suffer from a very short term memory which made the game that much more difficult. For example, there's a part where stinky sells a "basalt sandwich" which you need, but she'll only give it to you later in the game when you get transformed into youngsters (it's a "kid's meal"). Trouble is, by the time I needed it, I'd forgotten what the kid's meal consists of (she tells you early in the game), and stinky doesn't tell you (she only tells you that it's only for kids). For someone with an abysmal memory, this wasn't enjoyable at all… Expand
  3. GolovA
    Jun 19, 2018
    7
    A bit weaker than the previous, but it might be a setup for the following episode and overall arc of the plot.
    Stilll a joy!

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#34 Best PC Game of 2008
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#76 Most Shared PC Game of 2008

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. IGN
    82
    If anything, the smaller scale means that there's no filler here. Everything you come across is pure comedic content. Moai Better Blues never loses its focus so you'll get as much enjoyment out of its two-hour length than the three or four hours you spent playing some of the previous episodes.
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  2. Jolt Online Gaming UK
    82
    In terms of overall quality though, which is the aspect which really counts, Moai Better Blues is easily in the same league as Ice Station Santa.
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  3. GamesRadar+
    90
    Of all the episodes so far, Moai Better Blues comes closest to hitting the bizarre, pulp-fiction-y tones of the original Sam & Max comics, with a bigger emphasis on random spurts of cartoon silliness and fewer desperate stabs at hit-or-miss wackiness.
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