Quick review: If you never played the game before, keep it that way. If you remember playing this game, and really loved it, get it for the wonderful nostalgic value. It hasn't changed in both the best and worst ways possible.

Déjà Vu is a pioneer game in the point & click adventure genre, making a visual transition from the classic text based adventures. At the time of it's release, it was groundbreaking in giving players a true visual sense of the items and people they are interacting with. Vibrant and distinct colors make the world come alive from text, but text is still used to give hard definition to the characteristics of each individual object and person. Déjà Vu, along with the other MacVenture games, also made themselves distinctively different from the other games in their genre by allowing (or requiring) players to combine inventory items within the inventory, instead of only with the environment. Many years ago, this game was ahead of it's generation.

Now time has caught up with it, and it is more of a solid piece of nostalgia rather than a classic game. Playing it again since the last time I played it more than a decade ago, I am getting a flashback of just how hard it is to play. Just like the old text based adventures, it is very unforgiving, has a steep learning curve, and my require you to reset your entire game over and over again to line every event up perfectly to win the game. Way back when these games were released, we were astounded so much by the actual colors and freedom that we wanted to suffer through hard challenge to really get the full potential out of the game. Now that the video game market is oversaturated with more games than can need more time than a human lifetime can offer, people need to be more picky than ever for what they are going to spend their time playing. While this game was considered a gem back in the day, it may look more like another hard rock to the newer generation of gamers.

Quick review: If you never played the game before, keep it that way. If you remember playing this game, and really loved it, get it for the wonderful nostalgic value. It hasn't changed in both the best and worst ways possible. Déjà Vu is a pioneer game in the point & click adventure genre, making a visual transition from the classic text based adventures. At the time of it's release, it was groundbreaking in giving players a true visual sense of the items and people they are interacting with. Vibrant and distinct colors make the world come alive from text, but text is still used to give hard definition to the characteristics of each individual object and person. Déjà Vu, along with the other MacVenture games, also made themselves distinctively different from the other games in their genre by allowing (or requiring) players to combine inventory items within the inventory, instead of only with the environment. Many years ago, this game was ahead of it's generation. Now time has caught up with it, and it is more of a solid piece of nostalgia rather than a classic game. Playing it again since the last time I played it more than a decade ago, I am getting a flashback of just how hard it is to play. Just like the old text based adventures, it is very unforgiving, has a steep learning curve, and my require you to reset your entire game over and over again to line every event up perfectly to win the game. Way back when these games were released, we were astounded so much by the actual colors and freedom that we wanted to suffer through hard challenge to really get the full potential out of the game. Now that the video game market is oversaturated with more games than can need more time than a human lifetime can offer, people need to be more picky than ever for what they are going to spend their time playing. While this game was considered a gem back in the day, it may look more like another hard rock to the newer generation of gamers.