Telltale Games – A retrospective: Sam & Max – The Devil’s Playhouse

Continuing my series of Telltale retrospectives, I played through Sam & Max – The Devil’s Playhouse.

This time around, the game is DRM-free, and has even provided screenshots for me, which is smashing!

The disc also provided some screenshots for me, which I will scatter on this blog. No more running through Steam and remembering to take screenshots now and again! At least until the next game I cover…

Telltale Games – A retrospective: Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space (a.k.a. Sam & Max Season 2)

I finally played and beaten the second season of Sam & Max, and this time, I have screenshot to accompany my words! I ran the game under Steam.

This game was released on PC in late 2008, and got ports to all of the 7th gen systems afterwards, so there are quite a few ways to play this.

I’ll try to be as spoiler-free as possible, but I can’t make any guarantees.

So I had trouble even running this game. The game uses SecuROM, so that would explain why nothing happened.

I tried to download “cracked” exes of the game, and all it resulted in was this.

I was about to give up hope, and tried to download a pirated version of the game (I own a legit copy, so don’t say I robbed anyone of their money), and… it worked.

I noticed the splash screen was different in this version.

This is the copy I have

As it turns out, there are 2 different versions of this game, one named “Sam & Max – Season 2” and the one I have “Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space”. The former from what I gather was only sold through Telltale’s site and the latter was the full retail version.

Both use SecuROM, but there are only cracked exes of the former. So I had to go with that. I burned a copy of this version for future use because it seems to be really difficult to find online. I’ll probably keep looking, though.

So anyway, I got it working in the end. Like the first season, I found this a lot easier to figure out second time playing, but struggled near the end. I enjoyed this season a lot more than the first one, too! The stories were way more supernatural, but not edgy, and covered topics I love in a story, such as portals and time travel!

The game is also natively widescreen, (though as far as I know is letterboxed in 4:3 resolutions) and include hints during the game to help you out. Sadly the latter didn’t work very well. More on that later.

So I can adress the game one episode at a time.

So let’s begin.

Telltale Games – A retrospective: Sam & Max: Save The World

So I decided, after watching a documentary video on the Rise & Fall of Telltale games, I decided to play all of the Telltale games I possess.

Of which I have quite a few

Starting with the series that introduced me to the company: Sam & Max Save The World.