It pains me to negatively review a Tintin game since it is one of my favourite comic series. It's been like thirteen years since we last got the Steven Spielberg directed Tintin movie and the awesome tie-in game so I was eagerly looking forward to this one. But this turned out to be a disappointment. None of the mechanics are smooth, not the running, the driving, the flying, the stealth sections, nothing. And the sections where we controlled Snowy was the absolute worst. The whole game looks unpolished and even the characters are wayyy more goofy and childish than they are supposed to be. All of these combined made it a pain for me to get to the end and almost made me drop the game. The only reason I could make it to the end is because I have already read this book atleast a thousand times and it was nice that I could visit the places in the game that were shown in the original album.

If they intend to make a sequel with The Blue Lotus which they obviously set up in the end, I hope it would be a much more mature take on the story than this one and the game would, at the very least, be not a pain to finish. In the end, I would only recommend this game for ardent Tintin fans and that's all. To me, the 2011 Ubisoft movie tie-in game is still the best Tintin game for now.