Sam & Max: The Devils Playhouse - Episode 4 - Beyond the Alley of the Dolls

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 12 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

6
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Very funny, more psychic powers to play with
Great final boss fight, cliffhanger ending
Continues the outstanding story of The Devil's Playhouse.

Cons:

Annoying voice acting, hard to click on thins during psychic mode, some puzzles seem to leave you no hints.
Not as funny as earlier episodes, recycled settings

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Last revision on March 19, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Very funny, more psychic powers to play with
Great final boss fight, cliffhanger ending
Continues the outstanding story of The Devil's Playhouse

Reviewers Didn't Like

Annoying voice acting, hard to click on thins during psychic mode, some puzzles seem to leave you no hints
Not as funny as earlier episodes, recycled settings
No real innovation between episodes in gameplay

Expert reviews and ratings

If you’re looking for an adventure game that packs a lot of humor, interesting puzzles and psychic powers together in a Twilight-zone/science-fiction skin, you should give Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse a try. Although the beginning and end don’t...

By ign.com on October 01, 2010

I expected a lot from Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, but I had no idea what kind of emotional torment it would put me through. From brain-swapping to psychic powers, this has been a season full of shocking twists and turns. After this episode we...

By Gaming Nexus on September 03, 2010

The world is finally (hopefully) safe from the evil space ape Skunkape, but now thousands of half naked Sam clones (doppelgangers) are terrorizing the city and they won’t stop until they have found all the ancient toys of power. What a night!The...

By GamerTell on August 31, 2010

The penultimate episode of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Beyond the Alley of the Dolls, starts with a homage to filmmaker George Romero as the Freelance Police take refuge from a horde of scantily-clad, zombie-like Sam clones in Stinky's Diner....

By Hooked Gamers on August 02, 2010

With Sam successfully recovering Max’s sorry excuse for a brain in Episode 3 of The Devil’s Playhouse, all seemed to be well for our crime-solving pair. Out of nowhere come a mob of scantily-clad Sam lookalikes who take the Devil’s Toybox and send the...

By Neoseeker on July 20, 2010

Telltale has been moving the current season of Sam & Max along fairly quickly, with each episode trying to go bigger than the one before it, with non-stop cliffhangers and massive plot twists. That said, there have been some minor troubles brewing...

By Gamervision on July 20, 2010

Since opening in 2004, Telltale Games has made quite a name for itself in the episodic adventure arena. One of the main reasons for the company's success is the Sam & Max franchise, which has lately been revitalized by The Devil's Playhouse, an...

By AtomicGamer on July 20, 2010

As The Devil’s Playhouse builds the final episode of the season (to what I can only imagine will be a ridiculous conclusion), the stakes keep getting higher. Max, now re-united with his brain after the last episode, They Stole Max’s Brain!, continues...

By Cheat Code Central on July 20, 2010

Right after getting Max’s brain back into his “rabitty-thingy” body, just as everything seemingly is getting back to some semblance of “normal” in the Sam & Max world, the Freelance Police duo find themselves right in the middle of a clone...

By Armchair Empire on July 20, 2010

The Freelance Police have been pretty busy this season, dealing with a variety of villains one after another while learning more about Max’s emerging psychic powers. This episode is little different, and immediately puts you in the action as the duo...

By Gamers Daily News on July 20, 2010

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