Adventure games are slow and methodical. They test the gamer's patience and logic, and the good ones make it worthwhile, not just by making the journey worth traveling, but by making the destination as outstanding as the road to it. Scratches starts well, ramps up nicely—and then in its third and final act, just as the truth is almost tangible, the puzzles become less organic, and most players won't be intrigued enough to persist. This assumes, of course, that they have overcome some belabored pixel hunting made worse by murky graphics that may set the mood but don't do your environment-scouring abilities any favors. At Amped IGO, we even endured over a dozen crashes to desktop on two separate computers in our fervor to reach a conclusion we were sure must be stunning—only to encounter a game-killing bug that stopped us in our tracks and rendered it impossible to complete the game. Just like the rest of Scratches, we were left wondering at how so much potential could have gone to so much waste.