The best stories tend to start with a simple premise, and that is certainly true of Bone. Three cousins are cast out of their home, lost and alone in a strange, unfamiliar world, and trying to find their way back. The trio includes Fone Bone, the gentle protagonist, Phoney Bone, always ready to make money with a new scheme, and Smiley Bone, who takes everything in with the air of someone just simple enough to get into and out of a jam. And for thirteen years, people followed the cousins as their simple story turned into a tale of epic proportions. The fifty-five issues of the comic Bone were later turned into nine paperback volumes, splitting the large tale into its smaller story arcs while still tying the whole story together.

Most of this game flowed flawlessly, but there was one sticking point I have to mention: the load time between scenes was agonizingly slow. I actually began to dread leaving one area for another because of this, and it added an element of torture to an otherwise fun arcade-type puzzles. This long load time, which occurred between different areas, when waiting for dialog options with characters, and when opening certain puzzles, sometimes lasted as long as 10 or more seconds. It’s possible that this problem is unique to my computer, but I doubt it.