The 11th Hour

Art: fantastic. Quick time movies: fun and immersive. Music: innovative Interface: sucks big time. Overly complicated and inaccurate mouse targeting make this game a lesson in patience. Multiple mouse icons add to confusion whether its a puzzle, a interest point or whatever. The icon changes on a drop making a fussy, hot mess when all you want to do is explore the area. Add in the fact that you cant fast forward the incessant voice over taunts from the protagonist which happen whenever you click an indicated hotspot. In effect, gameplay becomes repeated voice taunts because the mouse keeps indicating an interactable hotspot by a grasping hand icon, used in every other point and click to indicate pick up/interact action but in this game you dont even get immersion text. the music is wonderful... too bad its too loud to hear the actual dialog. the idea for using a digital notebook for user settings and other functions was innovative but in actuality is another mess, with unfathomable buttons/functions, one just ends up clicking anything to see what happens. there is a hint button, not a clue what that does, so far just says arcane sayings with no references. all in all lots of promise but fails in the end with overly complicated user interface which does the primal sin of removing immersion from actual gameplay. skip buying it, watch a 'lets play video' instead off the internet

This game feels like its built from the ground up to force you to call hint lines. The puzzles are sometimes interesting, but these feel more obtuse the the 7th guest was sometimes. The majority of the game is mostly really obtuse hints on items to locate. Designed in a way where sure a really smart person might be able to guess 1 or 2 of them, but the rest you would have to call up a 1-900 number to learn figure out. The FMV story is interesting enough to keep one going (with its 90s cheese and terrible acting), but if thats all you are interested, im sure you can go watch that elsewhere. T7G is a better game, and the quality of that game is questionable. 11th hour only holds interest as a relic of the past due to it being a sequal to a technologically advanced game, but thats about all your going to get out it game wise.

The game is very weak. The narrator's jokes are stupid, the puzzles is meaningless and has no connection with the course of the game. The cursor disturbs the visual game. Very stupid.

I played this game when it first came out, which put me at about 10-11 years old at the time, and I found the graphics and puzzles and stuff to be creepy, somewhat challenging, somewhat frustrating, but then ultimately not that creepy. Until... After I beat the game, my computer crashed, and totally wiped the hard drive. I mean like, RIGHT after the ending scenes played out. So for me, that's why this game gets 3 stars: because at the time, I thought the game was haunted. I mean, seriously, RIGHT after the game ends, it crashes, says there's been a "fatal error" and our hard drive is corrupted. New computer and all, all because of a creepy but silly adventure game. But looking back on it now and watching videos on YouTube, man, this game is just another in that long list of "adventure" games from the early-mid 90's where there's a lot of grainy, lousy FMV and 3D rendered puzzles that rely more on trial and error than actual skill. Some of it's spooky still, with lots of skulls and creepy dolls and stuff, but these types of graphics do not age well (unlike much of the 2D stuff from this era that still looks great). So, in short: this game is haunted. It's not haunting, and you can find much better puzzle games out there, but if you're looking to get your nostalgia fix have at it. Just be warned, it carries a terrible curse...

One of my wife's and I favorite games. We've been waiting for this for a long time--and now we get to share it with our 8yr old daughter. She things Professor Layton is awesome--wait until she explores this game and dives into it's puzzles :) GOG--Thank you! It's a great puzzle game with a cool story. What's great too is the dev team create high res graphics for future computers, which means we'll be able to enjoy the game in its full glories--something I couldn't do back when I played this game.