I felt the opposite way. Unfortunately it looks like the sort of game where you have to play it regularly or you'll forget what you're doing and have to start all over again -- and I don't have time to keep up with playing a game like that right now. Maybe in a few months.

Well, I agree with a couple of his points-- but the whole "adventure games s**k nowadays/adventure games are dead" rhetoric gets old fast. We're here, after all. We're having fun. Aren't we?
Mysterious Journey 2 may have been a text book example of bad design, bad story, and weak all around(and I probably wouldn't recommend it to anyone), but I still had fun with it.
Riddle of the Sphinx had a bad story, a horrible interface, and some pretty weird puzzles...but it still remains one of my favorite adventures to date.

Then you have the recent games that completly don't s**k- the Lost Crown, Dark Fall series, Sherlock Holmes series(barring the horrible puzzles), Myst, Sublustrum, etc, etc.
And then there are the ones that do innovate-- Amnesia for example. Amnesia was great, I loved that game. But I don't think the genre in general actually needs innovation.

This is an interesting interview on Gamasutra that touches on the idea of innovation, as well as other intriguing topics.

Thanks Becky!

Ana