Yesterday Origins (Xbox One) Review
The point-and-click adventure genre ruled the early 1990s, with games like The Secret of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango selling millions of copies and becoming staples of the industry. However, the boom wasn’t to last and it soon became clear than these types of adventure games were becoming less popular compared to their more action orientated counterparts. Fortunately for fans of the genre, Telltale Games have brought them back into the fray with the successful release of The Walking Dead, giving players the chance to get back to grips with the fiendish puzzles that once haunted their nightmares. Yesterday Origins is very much a nod back to the old classics. While it has certainly been updated to bring in some of the modern mechanics you would expect from a game released in 2016, it effectively manages to evoke the classic examples of point-and-click adventure games that many recent releases fail spectacularly to do. It’s greatest quality is undoubtedly the plot. This incredibly strong story drives everything that you do and