![]() Her affinity for motorcycles and her surly disposition make her closest corollary Ben, Full Throttle's hard-riding and harder-punching star. ![]() Kathy Rain abuses cigarettes and alcohol, defaults to "caustically sarcastic" in her interactions with those around her, and lacks any particular talent for solving mysteries. Our titular heroine is a somewhat unconventional choice for a protagonist in a genre usually fronted by well-meaning buffoons or lantern-jawed everymen. Kathy gets plenty of opportunity to grow and evolve Luckily, Kathy's got a story that, despite some reservations, is worth hearing out. Without the novelty of that nostalgia, games like Kathy Rain stand on the merits of their storytelling. Pixelated graphics and an ever-expanding inventory may have been a revelation when games like the Blackwell series and Gemini Rue revived them a few years back, but now they're something more akin to a cottage industry. Thanks to the work of publisher-studios like Wadjet Eye, this has become something of a sub-genre itself. Kathy Rain is a throwback to adventure games in the LucasArts style.
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