Posted on: August 5, 2018
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Verified ownerGames: 1221 Reviews: 83
Not bad, but sluggish and short
In a nutshell: grab it (only) if you liked the 1st season and if it's on sale. In short, I kinda liked the mood and story (even if many things remain vague) but honestly, I think the makers of "The Last Door" overdid the lores thing. While you could say that the extremely lores graphics (that make C64 games look hires) support the ominous atmosphere, I'd argue that they also made the game cheaper and faster to produce. Besides, the few times I got shortly stuck was because some "object" only one or two (gigantic) pixels in size blended too well into the pixel noise of the background. Besides, it makes it somewhat hard to related your protagonist(s) or even recognize any of the different characters. Actually I kinda lost track who was searching for whom at some point. The 6h playtime are prolonged considerably by the slow walking pace of the protagonist, objects obscured by the lores graphics and the game's tendency to open paths or dropping objects without any relation to your actions in rooms where you wouldn't expect it. Apart from that, most of the riddles are logical and therefore rather easy to solve. Plus the aren't many of them and the locations are rather small. Of course there are still no voice-overs, only some sound effects and music here and there. In the last chapter, I noticed some bugs regarding text being displayed much too small when using a high resolution. Also double-clicking to quickly proceed to the next scene didn't always work. Anyway, I kinda got what I expected and I bought it on sale, so I was somewhat satisfied. So I give it four stars even if three stars would be perfectly reasonable as well.
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