Hector Badge of Carnage

Point and click adventure titles have always had a spot in my heart. Since the ‘good old’ days of King’s Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, the genre has had decreasing appeal to me (aside from my continued Myst following of course) and it wasn’t until the mass eruption of mobile device gaming that I spent any time reflecting upon the genre and where it was best suited for me as a gamer.

In search of a stand above mobile device game, I stumbled across Hector: Badge of Carnage for the iphone. This title has the nuts and bolts of a point and click adventure, but modernized with the ‘slide’ functionalities of the device. Using the slide is not one of my personal fortes, but becoming comfortable playing a game with no buttons will not erase 28 years of engrained button mashing from my veins.

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