Well thought of and rather difficult puzzles seamlessly integrated into a story with suspense and an excellent plot.
Main character is Gabriel Knight (brought to life by Tim Curry), a penniless writer who sets out to unravel a murder mystery in New Orleans. As his investigations proceed, he discovers that a voodoo cult is behind the murders. Simultaneously Gabriel discovers he is a descendant of an old german family of witch-hunters, that has pursued evil occultism for generations. In the end he is destined to stop the cult, which roots are traced all the way to Africa.
Thanks to the witty characters, amusing and intriguing dialogues and excellent voice-acting the game has the feel of an interactive novel in which you'd like to read page after page, though the challenging puzzles don't always allow that. Luckily, the game's puzzles make sense and a solution is always surprisingly close by, in spite of the quite extensive list of items in the inventory and the numerous locations that Gabriel has access to from the start.
The graphics and sound are decent for a game from 1993. Animations are not very fluent, the backgrounds are rich with square-edged pixels, but the cutscenes possess a certain style that still make them very effective.
Not very practical is the interface. It could have been kept more simple in my opinion. It allows for eight actions, some of which are quite useless. I have never used the 'move' action anywhere, 'use' always did the trick.
A definite recommendation to all adventure fans that missed out on this one!