We have come to an end, after two seasons and eleven episodes. Our beloved heroes, Sam and Max will not retire, but they will take a vacation somewhere in their neighborhood (maybe in their office!). If Telltale Games will continue the series we don't know, but we definitely want that, as Sam and Max did a good job bringing us a good quality humor and long hours of funny gameplay. So what better way to end the series with an episode that offers double the gameplay length, and a chance to meet all the main characters in the series? Yes, you heard me! All the characters are present here more or less. I mean some of them will have just a short appearance but enough to remember them.

The whole second season was thought to be more bound together, every episode leaving traces that could be found later on. So the last one begins with Sam and Max searching for Bosco's soul in Hell, after T.H.E.M. incident. With no further introductions you step along Sam and Max in this new adventure, of redemption. Why redemption? Because in every tale, in the end, the main character saves his beloved, friend, or the whole World from extinction. And Sam and Max will do the same thing, but not until they will pay for their victims of misunderstandings, now deeply imprisoned in the bowels of Hell.

Hell is depicted more like a modern company with its hierarchic steps, where the last minute of work never ends. And where Hugh Bliss and Brady Culture are just simple employees who have to fulfill Satan's wishes. Even Satan is damned in his own territory. That's because he is not the chief anymore. He has his own management team whom he has to obey. This sounds more and more like modern days.

I had the feeling that the puzzles system became softer again (in terms of difficulty), but in a good way making the plot more funnier to watch. For the new ones that want to try this series and never played before any of the episodes, this is a good one to start with. You get acquainted with all the main characters and their stories, and get clarified from the beginning with some aspects of the series. From this point replaying the older episodes gets even more demanding for a newbie.

One of the new locations where you will spend some time is the new wing dedicated to Sam and Max contribution for Hell. Here you will find all their accidental or non-accidental victims which are tormented in their own versions of Hell.

Every character is closed in a diorama haunted forever by his own fears. Like Bosco for example who is bared naked on a stage and everyone is watching him for eternity. In order to restore order in Hell, they have to lower Hell's management efficiency by freeing the souls from the dioramas, and get Beelzebub back as the ruler of Hell. Again a new minigame is available from the C.O.P.S. shop. But it's more difficult to get to it. First of all you have to solve the puzzle with Little Timmy in order to get him and Jimmy Two Teeth away from the shop. Only then the C.O.P.S. will let you enter in the virtual reality to complete the minigame.

The game consists in shooting all the rats to send them back to Hell. And that's possible because the DeSoto is possessed and can drive alone! But this time you don't have to complete the minigame in order to end the game. It's just there to bring additional fun and eventually bonus stickers.

"What's new Beelzebub?" ends the series of Sam and Max in a big way. Like in a real TV show, Telltale brings back in the scene every character to celebrate together Sybil's wedding and to answer some of the questions that appeared in former episodes.

Double the content and double the size as Telltale ends the series with the longest episode offering us a complete Sam and Max experience.

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