Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - Another point-and-click adventure game, this one was developed by Revolution Games and originally released in 1996, although I played the recent Reforged version. It deals with an international conspiracy based on a mysterious society from actual history, the Knights Templar. George Stobbart (pronounced with a long O) is an American tourist who, while visiting Paris, sees an accordion-playing clown bomb a cafe. Trying to figure out what happened has George following clues to Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and Syria. I guess there's a bit of Carmen Sandiego in its design.

While the previous Hulu seasons were released one week at a time, this one was dropped all at once. It was also around when there was a push for people to cancel Hulu because of Disney caving to Trump in canceling Jimmy Kimmel. I doubt there was a connection, but it was weird timing. I kind of liked one being released per week, but since we didn't get around to watching any of them until about a month later, it ended up not making much difference. Destroy Tall Monsters - This kind of feels like a more fleshed-out rehash of the first Anthology of Interest segment, with Bender becoming gigantic and fighting another huge monster in a Godzilla-style city-crushing montage.

Leprechauns are omnipresent at this time of year, despite the fact that they don't really have anything to do with St. Patrick per se. I think it's mostly just that they're of Irish origin and look good on decorations and greeting cards. Really, since the conversion of Ireland to Christianity resulted in the fairy folk being demoted from minor deities to breakfast cereal mascots, they might not be too fond of the old saint. It's enough to drive a fairy to drink. And that brings us to today's mythological topic, the Clurichaun.

Torin's Passage - I don't know that I'd even heard of this game until fairly recently, but it's a Sierra adventure game created by Al Lowe. He's the same guy who was in charge of the Leisure Suit Larry games, and while I've never played any of them, I know they have a reputation for being raunchy. This one is more of a fairy tale with a boy protagonist and a style similar to King's Quest VII, with cartoony graphics, silly characters with comic dialogue, and a lot of slapstick.

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren't. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle - This is billed as two novellas from the world of The Last Unicorn, although it's really more like a short story and a novella, I'd say. It's been a while since I read Unicorn, and I wish I remembered it better, but it's still nice to see its characters again.