Blackwell Bundle

I really enjoyed these games, very enjoyable characters and story lines. Fairly short and a couple of parts to move the story forward possibly not quite as logical as they should be but overall excellent adventure games.

Great voice acting, good atmosphere, nice graphics (except Legacy) and clever logical puzzles/problems (except the first hour of Legacy).

This bundle contains 4 games of the Blackwell series, made by Wadjet Eye Games, redeemers of the 2D point & click genre. The story follows Rosangela, a common girl, who discovers that she is a medium, and can talk to ghosts. Her companion, Joey is a ghost too, and you can control them both to help lost spirits find their way into the light, and solve other misteries. The story is interesting, the characters are likeable, the voice acting is good, and - thankfully - the game avoids the common problem of point & click games: hoarding junk to combine them in twisted ways, to figure out a puzzle. The puzzles here are clues, what you can combine to get more info, but usually you only have to talk to other characters to progress, and your inverntory has only a few items. In the first game (Legacy) the graphics is quite basic, and I encountered quite a few bugs for this kind of game (most of them in conversations, where the voice didn't match the text). Every game in the series is an improvement from the last game regarding the graphics, the interface, the menu, the conversations, the puzzles etc. So I'd give Legacy 3,5/5, Unbound 4.0/5, Convergence 4.5/5, and Deception 4.5/5. All episodes can be finished under 2-3 hours, so this bundle is a good buy. And there is Epiphany...

If you love adventure games, you'll love this one. It's a memorable journey in the life of Rosangela Blackwell. This game has emotions, friendship, drama and mistery. There are plot twists along the series, non of them I was able to foresee, or maybe I was too invested in the story to actually try to foresee. The art is really nice. I was skeptical about having a different artist for each episode, but that turned out really nice. It's like looking into different moments of the personal journey of the characters. Voice over is really good. I absolutely loved the voice of Rebecca Whittaker, the woman behind Rosangela, the main character. And last, but not least, each episode is filled with extras, like bloopers, concept arts and dev commentary. The only con I can think of, is the lazyness of the dev to not implement GOG achievements in the game. This series is 10 out of 10.

For the most part of the first ones, it is mostly clicking on dialogues, going to another place and again clicking on dialogues. But the first parts are not very long and it gets better, the later parts include more real puzzles and good ones too. I also liked that the locations focus on few interactive points so you don't have to click on tons of stuff with boring text. Also the dialogues don't get too much, mostly. For all parts I can say I liked the voice cast and the writing was also good (although not without some quirks).