Memoria

Let's get something straight right off the bat: The strong suit of this title is the storytelling! It's brilliant! It's really up there with the very best. I might be a bit biased because I like the dark eye setting - a lot. In fact, I like it better than D&D, the Witcher or even LOTR as a world to play in. However, with so much emphasis on setting and story I was a bit disappointed to find the German (=original) language edition missing on GOG. Hence, the missing star to a perfect 5 here. I found and ran a 3rd party patch which converted the game to German, but come on GOG, you're better than that! Now that I got this most important bit out of the way, a few brief remarks on other things: The artwork is beautiful but animations are a bit stiff and sometimes I even thought there are small mistakes in scale or perspective. Voice acting is mostly good but here too I guess there's some potential for improvement. I'm really no art critic but it feels a bit lower grade in the craft department than some of the competition. This was in no way putting me off but I can imagine it might be more of a problem for people who have higher expectations in this regard. I didn't pay too much attention to the soundtrack to be honest, but whenever I did, I found it to be quite good actually. Also, the puzzles were mostly spot-on for my skill level which made playing through a very pleasant experience. I went through this in a couple of days but I wouldn't say it's short as I played relatively long hours - which, again, is a compliment to the story that got me absolutely hooked! Bottom line: Very highly recommended if you like a good story above everything else and if you are a reasonably skilled adventure gamer (or make up for a lack of it with sheer patience & enthusiasm).

This game is vastly superior to its predecessor. Logical thinking works much better here. I gave Chains of Satinav a harsh review after finishing it, but this game redeemed Daedalic in my eyes. Three stars might seem like not much. But four stars is for very good games since five stars I save for legends. To get four stars, character models and animation would need to improve a bit more, just like the voice acting. The main characters would also need to be a bit more likable. There are interesting characters along the way, so no worries. Also, this game could be more complex, with better humor and a bit more spectacular outcomes of your solutions. Nevertheless, this game is superior to many revered classics in some of the puzzle aspects. Just lacks some of the magic they possessed. It is good though. Nice relaxing play. I recommend it to other adventure lovers.

Memoria is a well made adventure game and is a good. The game is beautiful and well voice acted (except for the dreadful performance of a boy in the end-sequence, who is clearly reading his lines). The puzzles are fair, the game is exactly the right length and there are 2 possible endings. It also introduces new game elements, like a new spell that can send images to a person based on objects you see in the room. Unfortunately you only get to use this mechanic a few times, which seems like missed potential. There are some parts that I enjoyed less, like the maze. Fortunately you can skip the maze, but it does feel like cheating. After running in circles for an hour however, you see the added merit of the button though. Another issue I had was the pacing of the game. Some parts pass too quickly and some parts seem to drag forever. For instance, there is this part with a huge spider web, but I found out the solution to the puzzle before I even saw there was a big freaking spider staring at me! The parts in the past are in general way more interesting than the ones in the "present" (Geron's timeline). The "present timeline" drags a lot in the beginning and your motivation (to save the most annoying character in the game) is not enough motivation for me. In short; if you like adventure gaming and liked the previous part, buy this game, because it is worth your time.

The quest takes part in Andergast after the first game Dark Eye: Chais of Satinav. The main interesting thing about the story that the main part keeps continuing in the past. And the story is not yet finished. And you need to make this story happen. The main riddle about the scarab you will understand fully only after the last cut-scene. Don't even try. If you still don't get it, ask youself: who from the characters looks like a scarab? What's strange: German game wihout German sounding. What's frustrating: puzzle about statues and Nuri in the beginning which is not logical enough. You just need to select hardest variant from all of them but it's not really logical quest but clicking the combinations one. Puzzle with floating crystals and fighting with main enemy. And with objects in the room also in in this part of game. I checked the solution to the game and still don't get this puzzle. It's not Enstein principe like a puzzle with masks of the elements and naming them. I tried to figure out about allowing objects to be near and only figured out that on the upper floor torch is always on the left and it can't be near nothing. And the number of possible solutions varies to 9 I guess and it's not logical but looks like you just need to freakin' click all the possible solutions. Her voice is slow which makes this room extra frustrating. Also sending memories to amazons was frustrating but colorful and looked like innovation.

The game is touching, the puzzles are mostly logical (there was one near the end of the game were clearly story got more important than logic). It's really a nice game, but if you can play it in German, the voice acting is much better and makes the characters so much more likeable (just like in some other Daedelic games)