No, itâs not Day of the Tentacle. Sorry. But itâs something almost as neat: a playthrough of Jordan Mechnerâs The Last Express, re-cut to look like an animated film.
Poor Last Express was a PC adventure game from the 90âs, which nobody really played because the publisherâs marketing team didnât market it. At all. Though it didnât help that it was an art nouveau murder mystery adventure game set on a train in 1914.
But it looked amazing, which I guess is why weâre here. The game featured a gorgeous, hand-drawn art style, rotoscoped from real actors (much like Mechnerâs Prince of Persia was), and this clip (captured by Mechner himself) shows just how many of these sequences were in the game because this âcartoonâ â covering the entire gameâs plot â runs for a whopping 75 minutes.
Might want to fix yourself a cup of tea before you settle in.
The Last Express Remixed [Jordan Mechner]
