Posted on: July 29, 2022
unearthlytraveller
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 74 Rezensionen: 20
Disappointing continuation
This is a direct sequel to the first game, and my review will assume you've played the first one. So let me begin by stating what this game does better. Now, when you move your icon over the map, it is clearly stated which interaction points will take you to a new screen. That's it. Sadly, the list of things that were done worse is somewhat longer. For gameplay, there's not too much difference between the games. Yhey're both classic adventure games, which means puzzles that might not make much sense even in retrospect. It's forgiving, with no fail state that I'm aware of and the puzzles aren't too bad. But, in the first game I generally had an idea what I was doing, what I needed to do next, and how it connected. I felt things were much less well connected here; I was more often just doing things randomly to see what happened. Worse, there were some very annoying examples of tediousness in the design, particularly later on. The ice tunnel puzzle with the rodent is a good example; every new attempt requires slowly walking back several screens to get more water. It wasn't long before I just gave up and used a walkthrough on that one. The real problems with this game are with the story. The first game didn't really have an antagonist. Maybe they took that as far as they could, and needed to do something new. But you don't solve that with some shallow, cliched, and incompetent villains. Then there was the stuff going on back in America, which seemed to be setting up some conflict only to go nowhere. The killer issue is with our "heroes". Late in the story, our heroine and her companion do something that destroyed what sympathy I had left. Instead of a tale of an old man's last wish, this became the story of a selfish jerk doing what he wants without consideration for others. It not only ruined this game, but the first one in retrospect.
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