Black Mirror 1

+ dark athmosphere of old british manor + ok graphics for 2003 + nice 4/5 of story - very slow game - movement of main character, slow interaction with inventory, slow response and talking of all characters, slow interaction with puzzles and even slow manipulation with main menu - you have to be REALY patient for this game - game uses one very unfair trick quite often, some items are visible all the time on game screen, but some of them are interactive and detectable by mouse cursor only since some specific moment or specific action and nobody warns you about this game feature. This led me to complete stuck many times during game, in the finale i was really fed up with this - few annoying puzzles - not so good writing, i would expect much more from "the best czech adventure game ever" - after something which looks like ending comes sudden final episode which makes no sense, seems very rushed and looks like attempt for psychological horror style ending - disappointing! - there is one sudden quicktimeevent which doesnt look like QTE at all, more like a noninteractive animation, if you fail (and you surely fail many times before realise that) you die. This made me stuck for days, devs must hate their players Good only for very patient hardcore adventurers or if played with walkthrought next to you, nice story, too much WTF ending, insanely slow and very tricky gameplay. 2.5 /5 I cant believe this got so high ratings.

This is one of those adventure games that leave you on the fence... Firstly, it's got great graphics for its time, very detailed sceneries that you can study for hours. Secondly, it's very atmospheric and sucks you in its world. Lastly, it's quite long, prepare to spend quite a few days with it. However, the plot, while decent and quite intriguing at first, unravels to a relatively expected and not that engaging finale, which leaves you wondering what was the point, let alone a few plotholes created by the "twist". This is not helped by a dreadful performance from the main character's voice. Simply annoying. Finally, for some reason the creators enjoyed injecting lengthy dialogue for no purpose other than make the characters sound "aristocratic", for lack of a better explanation. Anyway, I can't say I didn't enjoy my time with it. Most of the puzzles are rational, but some really weird ones exist that will stretch your patience and have you go looking for a walkthrough. Plus the waiting... some dialogue or items in order to open up need waiting but there is no button for it so you just go around and around expecting for the action to open up. TL;DR: very good graphics and atmosphere, semi interesting plot, lengthy gameplay, mostly reasonable puzzles, bad voice acting, filler dialogue, disappointing finale.

I played this game when it came out. In fact this is the game that made me hate DRM. The game itself has a pretty good story. It kept me interested to find out what happened next. HOWEVER, the game is slow. The main character is not so likable and the character moves so slow. I originally thought that maybe the computer I originally played it on was the problem. I played it again a few years later on a much faster machine and it was still slow moving. A lot of back and forth made it a bit frustrating sometimes. Without DRM its worth a try as long as you are not determined to like the main character. Without a disc to load and access maybe it will move faster.

The game looks like those games from the time of resident evil and such. It's cool. Voice acting good enough. But I had to stop playing the game and leave it at the first chapter. Gameplay is terrible: - animations slow. - the longer the text the longer the weight after each of the dialogue items making dialogue really annoying and you have to click and click all the time to skip the waits. - weird interaction. After you discover you had to write click on an object or a place to discover something else is pretty frustrating. - massive pixel hunting - you are sometimes blocked in a place because they are waiting for you to get some item and you end up looking at it again guide because you didn't find anything. - getting out of the game and in again can crush it (this is the emulator or gog) - everything is super slow. You have to wait for the end of animations to start talking to somebody and such. Arg. I laughed the story and the game itself but whoever designed it didn't know how to design games. Seriously. I'm sad to let it go...

The game has good graphics, music, story and atmosphere but there are just too many annoying design flaws that ruin it and even make it quite frustrating experience: - the game is too long for all the bad reasons - incredibly tedious pedling between locations (no fast travel) - you will regulary cross 4 and more screens - long animations before dialogues - slow movement of the main character - often slow and subpar voice acting - some redundant and weird puzzles - story progression activated by certain dialogues - you can die or even worse there is at least one gamebreaking situation (wolf) - out of nowhere one of the worst puzzles in the history of the adventure games (the second tomb) - pixel hunting (you will often miss some item) - confusing controls (for some strange reason sometimes you have to click with the right mouse button instead of the standard left mouse button for the action)