The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition

The game is fun, the story is slightly eerie, but it has clearly dated poorly in some respects. The atmosphere and music are intact and the puzzles are generally fun, but sometimes there's just too much wonkiness in the interface. The video in particular is very clearly ancient and sometimes things really don't line up with what the actors are doing or saying. Still, if you can see through that (you'll get the pun when you play this), you can have a lot of fun with the puzzles. Replayability is limited, though it's very possible to miss a lot of things if you don't look around and try to click everywhere. You can even miss entire puzzles.

I played this game when I was a teenager. I'm so happy to see it back, but so sad to see so many people unhappy with it. I never had any of the updated versions so this will be so fun for me, even with the posted shortcomings. I have an emotional attachment to this game as one of the guys that introduced me to this game (What teenage girl can resist a bunch of guys playing horror puzzle games) is passed. So even with all its issues. I'm clicking buy right now because somewhere in Heaven, Paul Burton is so excited that I can play again. So this is for him and the other guys, Ricky, Jason, Tim, Nathan and Mike who broadened my gaming horizons and who never minded playing games with a girl! <3 Please remember that games, even if you don't like the work or how it turned out, take time and energy to make and preserve. I would like nothing more than to have my 386SX25 Packard Bell with my x CD-ROM drive and the original discs - trust me, every once in a while I'll go on eBay try find my model, the 4x ROM drive I upgraded to, and the original discs, but I've been searching to perfectly recreate my teenage setup for 10 years and still have not been able to do it. So I am more than happy to get this!

I remember this game fondly, from 25 years ago. I played it again, hated the interface, or lack of one. Found this updated experience. MUCH improved. But now I find the game annoying. The story is very interesting, I'd like to see where it goes. And a few of the puzzles have been fun. But several of them have been not puzzles, but just drawn-out trial-and-error time-killers. I'm wandering around in a maze now, and really bored. I've turned it off for now. Maybe I'll pick it back up. Or, I'll accept that games have to try harder now. We'll see.

Trilobyte is a company in the adventure game annals that deserves a lot of respect for what they've created, but this one didn't quite hit for me. The puzzles are unforunately I little too obtuse at times and offer very little in the ways of clues. They don't seem to have anything to do with their environments, just shoved in haphazardly into rooms.

The storyline of this game is okay. Its not good, not great, not bad, its 'okay', squarely in the bloody middle of the road. The puzzles themselves, however... range anywhere from deceptively easy to excessively difficult or just outright irritating. However, what really irritates me about this game is the CONSTANT interrupting commentary from the main character and the antagonist. Commentary that is just bargain bin level of 'bad jokes' constantly, interrupting your attempts to solve puzzles with no way to turn it off or to shut them up. It grates on the patience quite heavily, honestly. I normally like most puzzle games--and I can see why there weren't very many "7th Guest" sequels... this game is more or less testing your patience whilst you're attempting to solve puzzles and I wish I could just stuff the chatterers into a box so I can focus on the puzzles without interruption.