A medium-length sequel to the short game I liked a while ago. Here's what I said about the first one:
a mash-up of Monkey Island 1 and Sweeney Todd, it's got lovely art (a slightly more cartoony version of the old Lucasarts style, which is refreshing amongst all the Sierra pastiche art that is so prevalent in modern indie adventures), some nice animations and tunes, and a fun dark vibe. The only negatives really are that it's very short and easy (basically a compliment, as I would have liked more of it!), that the UI is sometimes a little too streamlined for its own good, and that it would have been nice for the twenty or so narrator lines to be voice acted. Tiny nitpicks, though, in a very fun little game.
New Blood has all the same strengths and weaknesses, but unfortunately the weaknesses loom larger when a game lasts for more than twenty minutes, especially when it's so episodic. I had hoped it would be the first game evolved into a dark Day Of The Tentacle, but instead it's more like Darkside Detective - a collection of vignettes all with the same repeated framing and no difficulty to speak of. So, nice presentation, enjoyable grand guignol story, but I wish it were a 'real' adventure game rather than an idle point-and-clicker.
Rating: presentation still great, nitpicks worsened exponentially
