Length is an issue. – City Of Secrets 2 Episode 1 Review

The production values are top notch - great visuals, fun voice acting, fun Sam and Max style humor. But it's way too short. There's two problems with this - first, the price. For $1 I don't feel slighted...for $5 I think it's a tough sell. I try to use a movie price comparison...$5 is a little less than half the price of a movie ticket, and it's a little less than half the length of a movie. Telltale games, by contrast tend to take me 90+minutes for $5/episode. Thats a pretty good value. A movie's worth of enjoyment for 1/2 the price of a ticket. I don't mind paying $5, $10, even $20 if the value is there, i am just not sure that value is there at $5/episode if they are all going to be one-sitting jaunts. The second issue is that short episodes mean no really challenging puzzles. The original City Of Secrets had some decent challenges. This game is just a breeze-through even on the harder difficulty. There's too few locations, too few items, and the puzzles are all really basic. What's there is great. There's just not a lot there.
Review by Jzerocsk on City Of Secrets 2 Episode 1.