YMMV / Space Quest V: The Next Mutation

• Contested Sequel: It's one of the better received installments, but opinions are divided on whether it's a better game than Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers. Some say it's the best installment, due to its engaging characters, Darker and Edgier tone and consistent Story Arc giving the game a more engaging plot in a growingly stale series as well as improving gameplay and graphics. Detractors argue that the improvements in V are welcome, but the change of creators (this time by Dynamix) resulted in a game not as funny or interesting as IV. Others are also turned off by focus on Star Trek and the lack of voice acting edition that IV received.
• Fanon Discontinuity: A small minority of fans feel this way with V and VI, due to neither being worked by the full Two Guys from Andromeda.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Gippazoid Novelty Company sends another The Ahnold Terminator assassin after Roger after its failed attempt in Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon. The twist is this one is a Fembot. It's very hilarious with the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which has the exact same premise.
• That One Level: Finding and rescuing Cliffy with the EVA pod. Not only you need to locate him first, you must do it quickly before you run out of fuel and oxygen. And don't forget that you also need to return to the Eureka. Made more frustrating with the infamous Sierra speed bug that make the oxygen and fuel depletion exaggeratedly faster if not run on an emulator.
• That One Puzzle: The last leg of the game requires traversing the giant maze that is the ventilation of the Goliath. It's extremely confusing thanks to the samey visuals and multi-floor design of the maze making it difficult to figure out where you are at any given time.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The game's very thick with Star Trek parody compared to the other installments and clearly assumes the player can pick up the references with ease. This is because when it came out in 1993, you could easily catch it on television with both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine airing. It ended up dating the game as a product of mid 1990s, in middle of "The Next Generation Era".

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