Posted on: October 13, 2019
mdqp
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 1946 Rezensionen: 70
More than a game, a chore
To play this point and click adventure, you must be truly committed. Do you mind sifting through a huge amount of notes, parsing what's useful and what isn't (a LOT of the text you find is, in fact, useless, even for atmosphere/narrative purposes) and writing down/taking screenshots of those (because the game doesn't keep track of any of this for you)? Are you okay with the control style used in Myst, in a game where you can zoom in on tons of stuff (that again, is often uninteractive and not useful for the atmosphere/narrative, like an empty table)? Do you mind games that give you no clear reason or context for the puzzles you are solving, until halfway through the whole game (maybe more, depending on how you play through it)? Can you be invested in the life of minor characters that you have never met (and are long dead), as you find MORE NOTES by them strewn around? Do you love mute protagonists that never say a word? Other than some chatty ghosts, which, AGAIN, often say nothing useful, there are no dialogues either. If so, you might actually love this game. The atmosphere is great, and it has some good puzzles, even if the 3d renders are old, they still manage to old up somehow, but sadly it all feels so removed from any context, and the gameplay feels so archaic (even more than a game like Myst), that I can't stand finishing this. It's not fun identifying (and solving) a puzzle, when the reward is something we don't understand. It's hard to be invested in the events, if everyone is dead, we are a mute, and nothing seems to organically develop from our interactions with the game's world. The game is all set in one single area, basically, so from the beginning it feels like you are working toward the end goal, which also means you rarely feel like you have reached a milestone for your progress (and since there is 0 guidance, you might very well miss said milestone). Not for the faint of heart, for all the wrong reasons.
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