Twinsen's Odyssey (PC)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars Excellent
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 8.1 (4.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Ron Dulin
• Reviewed on: 07/11/1997
• Updated on: 05/02/2000
• Released on: 06/30/1997
• Originally published on GameSpot: Twinsen's Odyssey (PC) Review

Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure (known overseas as Little Big Adventure) was a tremendously inventive action-adventure game. Created by the man behind the original Alone in the Dark, Frederick Raynal, Twinsen's Adventure was so incredibly fun, and so visually stunning, it was easy to look past its faults - like a frustrating combat system and next-to-useless save game options. Now Twinsen is back to save his homeworld of Twinsun once again, in Adeline's Twinsen's Odyssey. The sequel is as gorgeous as its predecessor, with the same strange wit and interesting characters. But the faults are a little more apparent this time around - and the reversion from a static, isometric viewpoint to a switching camera angle seems like a step backward.

Twinsen's Adventure dealt with our hero saving his planet from the oppressive rule of Dr. Funfrock. Traveling all over his homeworld (an enormous place called, confusingly enough, Twinsun), Twinsen began as a political prisoner and ended by fulfilling a mystical prophecy and becoming a magical hero. Twinsen's Odyssey picks up pretty much where his Adventure left off. Now the wizards of Twinsun are being kidnapped by an alien race named the Esmers, and as Twinsen searches to aid them, he uncovers a plot to destroy Twinsun as a sacrifice to the Esmerian deity, the Dark Monk. With the addition of Esmer, and its satellite, the Emerald Moon, the amount of area to explore in Twinsen's Odyssey has grown to enormous proportions. Just exploring these bizarre lands and the inhabitants (including several new species of anthropomorphic animals, a group of sausage-soldiers called the Knarta, and a surprising cameo by a dead ringer for Gene Simmons), is enough to recommend the game to anyone who enjoyed the original or anyone looking for something a little out of the ordinary.

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