I mentioned the Hugo trilogy in my list, I loved those games too... never got into Nitemare 3D because it was an FPS, and after noting that fact and maybe playing a level or two of the shareware I never played it again, but I loved the adventure games for sure.
Great games, it's too bad that after Nitemare 3D David P. Gray largely stopped making games.Originally Posted by A Black Falcon
Oh, and reading that interview (again? Not sure if I've read it before), it's funny that for the shortest game, Hugo 3 is the only one I haven't finished...
... Really though, if you know what you're doing Hugo 1 is really, really short. Is Hugo 3 really shorter than that? Hugo 1 takes a while longer your first time of course, though... but on that note, despite liking the games, I didn't like that bridge in the second game one bit. Getting across it is so, so hard (in the DOS versions that are what I have mostly played)! And I used to think the mummy in the first game was tough... the mummy is easy to avoid for me now, but that bridge is just ridiculous. The worst part, though, is that you can go across and get the paper wet... and have no idea for a long, long time that you've messed up. It doesn't tell you, it just blocks off your path much later in the game when you need that piece of paper. That's just cruel... it's stuff like that, or the deaths in Sierra games, that are a big part of why I love the Lucasarts style of adventure game so much. They'd give you hard puzzles, sure, but wouldn't do that kind of annoyance.
Oh, and the hedge maze was kind of a pain too. Hugo 2 is fun, but not quite as good as the original, I think, despite being a bit longer... it certainly is a good game though even so.
Not sure why I never finished Hugo 3... got stuck at some point and I just gave up and never went back, obviously.