‘The Bogey Man’ may not be Wallace & Gromit’s grandest adventure, but it provides a satisfying conclusion to the series.

Saying goodbye is never an easy thing – in fact, it’s probably a sign of a TV series or videogame’s quality when you find yourself wondering “what happened next?” long after its closure. Likewise Telltales Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, which reaches its conclusion with fourth episode ‘The Bogey Man.’ Despite (or because of) some rather basic puzzles, the Grand Adventures series has provided an enjoyable monthly dose of adventure gaming, with excellent puzzles and well-scripted humour. Though the title characters will almost certainly return in one form or another, it’s actually quite upsetting to consider that this might be the last we see of Major Crum, Monty Muzzle, Duncan McBiscuit and the various other denizens of Wigan. Sincerely, they’ll be missed.

Having extensively written of the previous three Grand Adventures, I’ve detailed everything there is to write about Telltale’s faux-claymation series, and so this review will look at the four episodes as a whole as much as it does ‘The Bogey Man.’ Though the episodes are now available individually form the Telltale Store, it’s doubtful that anyone will be intent on solely playing this golf-centric finale.

Not that ‘The Bogey Man’ feels like a finale; unlike Telltale’s Sam & Max and Strong Bad efforts, which were held together by story arcs, each instalment of Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures has been pretty much self-contained. This episode does continue directly on from ‘Muzzled!’, which saw Wallace inadvertently propose to his gardening enthusiast neighbour Felicity Flitt, and though his faithful hound’s efforts to free his master from matrimony are at the centre of this episode, it doesn’t really feel like a triumphant farewell to the citizens of Wigan that we have grown to love over the last five months. Moustache twirling huckster Monty Muzzle makes a jail-bound cameo, but that’s about all you’re going to get in the way of closure.