This is one of my top 5 games of all time.

User Rating: 10 | The Neverhood PC
By maggerbee | Review Date:
The Neverhood is a unique point-and-click adventure game done entirely in claymation. You guide a placid clay person named Klaymen around a brightly-colored world with very few other creatures in it, solving puzzles and slowly unraveling the story of how this world was created, what happened afterward, and what Klaymen must do to save it. While you're in a puzzle room, you have a third-person view of Klaymen and the objects around him. While you're moving Klaymen between rooms across the clay landscape or having him operate a machine, you have a first-person view through his eyes.

All the while this awesome music is playing --- lots of weird twanging noises and mumbly nonsense lyrics, but really catchy songs. The soundtrack by Terry Taylor was actually released as a separate CD.

Most of the puzzles in this game are pretty strange, relying on abstract visual and other associations; I had to take notes on a few of them in order to keep everything straight. There are several places where you do something that only affects an area far away, so you have no idea what you've done until you happen to walk by and notice it. There's one seriously complicated puzzle that I solved by thinking about a long story that you get to read at one point in the game. When I was done I looked up some solutions online to see if they took the same approach --- they didn't, not at all, but hey, my solution worked...See what your results are!

Hardcore adventure gamers may dislike this game for being so illogical and quirky...but it's full of charm and highly original style, and almost anyone can play it. For me, it was definitely worth the high prices that used copies now go for.

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