And that inventory. Ugh. At least in Escape you can pop open the “ring” and see all of it at once, even if you do still have to scroll through it sequentially rather than having point-click random access. Something I (and I’m sure many people) like to do in adventure games while I’m stuck on something is open my inventory and ponder all the objects there to see if anything strikes me. I still did that in Grim, but it meant this tedious scrolling back and forth not knowing what direction was better (as you point out). Not handy.

Of course I’m enjoying these LucasArts retrospectives too. Those adventure games were a wierd historical blimp and are only interesting as historical artifacts today, I think. Thank you for playing them so I don’t have to.