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It attempts 9 to pay homage to a 9 variety of things but only two of its inspirations rise close enough to the surface to become recognizable. The primary movie Runaway brings to mind is Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, with its busload of transvestites stranded in the middle of nowhere. You see how 9 this all plays into my "wacky and improbable" thesis for this review? The overarching gameplay model for Runaway, I believe, is the first Broken Sword (although many nods are given throughout to other games of yore). Gina is to Brian as Broken Sword's Nico is to George, cast as a maybe-unrequited love interest and purportedly a central character in the game but unwittingly relegated (by the men who designed the game) to merely a foil, the raison d'etre for the pickle that Brian (or George) finds himself in, time after time.
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