The Last Express

The interface is not-quite-point-and-click. You play in first-person view and can look around and move in fixed steps. There is a small amount of pixel-hunting when you have to find hidden buttons in certain locations, but nothing an experienced adventurer couldn’t solve easily. The Last Express employs an unusual system of saving game positions. You do not get any save game slots, but there is a game clock that you can rewind to any point in the past or you can jump back to major stops on the train’s route. You often don’t know what to do. Nobody is giving you any clearly defined quests.

The animation is unusual, too. Most of the time the animation isn’t fluent and looks more like a slide show (perhaps one frame per second). It doesn’t look nearly as bad as it sounds, The music is quite nice, too—properly dramatic in the right places and recorded in high quality. There is even a lovely violin concerto in the game. Unfortunately, you can’t listen to it much because you have to busy yourself breaking into locked compartments and “borrowing” items while everyone else is enjoying themselves at the concert. But whoever said the adventurer’s life was easy?

The Last Express is a very well-made game, created with love and unprecedented attention to detail. After long and hard thought,  we decided to rate it highly. The story is quite interesting and addicting. The Last Express is a quality game and a classic. That’s why it is worth playing and take place in your collection!