Bought Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures from GOG, considering that I liked Telltale's past games and skipped out on these for some reason.
The good: they capture the tone and charm of the original films very well. There's a simple, inoffensive but still entertaining presentation to both the films and the games that is hard to deny the appeal of. It's a sort of dry wit which comes to life thanks to good comic timing, voice acting and animation. Telltale are always pretty successful at this in all their games, so it's nice to see here. Wallace has a different voice actor, but to be honest he's pretty good (much better than Sam in the Sam & Max games, by comparison) and I stopped thinking about it after a few minutes.
The issues I have with the game come down to the actual gameplay. A lot of the puzzles share the same old problem of pixel-hunting, where once you've collected all the items you can pick up, and found the things you can use them on, it becomes very obvious what to do, but actually getting to that point can sometimes be annoying. Like a lot of Telltale's games the puzzles can sometimes feel like tedious busywork once you've figured out the solution and yet are forced to watch the same cutscenes or dialogues over and over. I do like logical puzzles in adventure games, but these aren't so much difficult or clever as they are just time-consuming. Some of them are even a bit misleading - for instance, in one I had to shoot a squirrel down from a tree, but he would only fall after I had done something else completely unrelated, which meant I didn't try shooting the squirrel again for a while thinking it wouldn't work.
There's also a lot of Telltale's own humor which doesn't quite work. Most of the time it gets the tone and feel right, but there are some weird character designs and jokes which do not fit at all. The first episode (which I finished) has giant bees in it which do not look like they belong in the Wallace & Gromit universe at all, for instance, and there are some silly gags and puzzle solutions which feel like they are from a Sam & Max game instead. Hard to explain, but you'll likely notice it immediately once you actually play it.
Overall seems solid, and for $3 it's hard to complain, but they feel very much like Telltale on auto-pilot to me, just reusing the same old ideas. They do get credit for mostly nailing the presentation though.
