Dig

Completed The Dig.
Didn’t look into walkthrough once, which is a good result for the game. Although two episodes did get me stumped for quite a long time. First, I thought the lightbridges need to be activated from both sides, or in some order. Turns out, you just need to hold the mouse button while activating them, a mechanic that the game never uses again, and I haven’t seen in any other point’n’click. And second, is that in order to deactivate the forcefield, you need to talk to Maggie about a specific object in that specific location.
Initially I praised the story, but having finished it, I must say it’s a disappointment. I remember how confused I was while reading about the game that there’s an instance when you need to saw off your crew member’s hand. But it all comes quite out of the blue: Brinks, the resurrected junkie, gets his hand stuck without any good reason, and this is the only bloody violent episode in the entire game, added for pure shock value. Later he tries to kill you and falls off a cliff, but lacking an arm doesn’t have any relation to that.
Then there’re the aliens. They went to a higher plane of existence, while their bodies and planet deteriorated, and now they are bored and long to return, but they can’t. Sounds like a good story of civilization that is too evolved for its own good, and “be carefult what you wish for”. Only the protagonist manages to not only to pull them back, but return them their physical bodies, without any explanation. Also, both of his companions are miraculously resurrected, although Brink is unexplainably aged now?