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Snooping around the supernatural!

The Blackwell series, a fantastic collection of five old-school point-and-click supernatural murder-mysteries from Wadjet Eye Games, is available on GOG.com for up to 75% off for the next 24 hours. The complete series consists of Blackwell Bundle, up for grabs for only $3.74 (75% off), and The Blackwell Epiphany-- the final chapter to the story, available for $8.99 (40% off).

In [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/blackwell_bundle]The Blackwell Bundle we follow the exploits of the unlikely detective duo as they investigate four cases balancing on the edge between crime and paranormal happenings. In the first chapter of our story, The Blackwell Legacy, we witness the beginning of an unwitting partnership, as Rosa Blackwell learns about her psychic heritage, meets the ghost of Joe Mallone, and stops a series of mysterious suicides. Blackwell Unbound acts as a prequel to the series and tells the story of Rosa's grandmother, Lauren Blackwell, who preceded her granddaughter as Joe's medium mystery-solving partner. Back in our times Blackwell Convergence pits Rosa and Joe against a tortured soul of a murdering lunatic, that's been haunting the Big Apple for decades. Finally, Blackwell Deception puts our detectives in harm's way as a sinister villain manipulates them for his own dark purposes. All of the stories feature top-notch writing, remarkable voice-acting, classic pixel-art graphics, and a multitude of restless spirits.

The Blackwell Epiphany serves as the fifth and final installment of the series. As usual, the game is a real treat for the fans of classic point-and-click gameplay and traditional hand-crafted 2D graphics. The game is longer than any of the previous ones, and--being the grand finale to the story of Rosa Blackwell--it promises more excitement, drama, and danger. Our heroine and her opacity-impaired partner, the spirit-sleuth Joey Mallone, will face their ultimate challenge. Can you see them safe through it?

Get the entire 5-game-long mystery packed retroventure with The Blackwell series, available for only $12.73 until Thursday, August 21, at 9:59AM GMT.
Although I'm currently playing Deponia (thanks Ungunbu), is so tempting to buy the Blackwell bundle. And since no one asked for this game in gifting thread (I'm in gifting mood again:) ), I decided to buy it for myself.
In fact I bought it as gift and it's highly probably that I'll gift it someone else in future instead of redeeming it myself :).
Post edited August 20, 2014 by truhlik
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mrking58: You shouldn't blacklist the blackwell series. All 5 of them are good games and I would of pre-ordered them even without the pre-order exclusives. The pre-order stuff is targeted towards Blackwell fans
If they had released a more expensive collectors edition with the soundtrack and interviews, I'd have nothing to complain about. As it stands, individuals who want those things can't get them on GOG unless they preordered the game. I find the practice of preorder exclusives so revolting I immediately removed the Blackwell Epiphany preorder and the Blackwell Bundle from the cart when I noticed that. I might get them eventually, but it won't be today.
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ShadowWulfe: I wonder where all the dislike came from?
Well i can't say for everyone else, but for me the fourth game many of the hints and puzzles were way to subtle and if you had taken a break to go to sleep in the middle of the game (like i did) all the subtle hints that might have been enough weren't anymore because you totally forgot them later in the game.

That and the 'make one mistake and you gotta do the whole thing over again' bit got old real fast where i just pulled up a walkthrough and did what it told me to for those long sections.

My personal opinions and review of the game(s) i put under the blackwell bundle thread...
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mrking58: You shouldn't blacklist the blackwell series. All 5 of them are good games and I would of pre-ordered them even without the pre-order exclusives. The pre-order stuff is targeted towards Blackwell fans
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zaine-h: If they had released a more expensive collectors edition with the soundtrack and interviews, I'd have nothing to complain about.
IIRC, the exclusives for #5 were Kickstarter rewards added for free for those who pre-ordered. Dave Gilbert was looking to add a special edition to GOG that includes those exclusives. Speaking personally, I wouldn't touch the game until a special edition does show up. Also, not sure what the holdup is.
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zaine-h: If they had released a more expensive collectors edition with the soundtrack and interviews, I'd have nothing to complain about.
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Gydion: IIRC, the exclusives for #5 were Kickstarter rewards added for free for those who pre-ordered. Dave Gilbert was looking to add a special edition to GOG that includes those exclusives. Speaking personally, I wouldn't touch the game until a special edition does show up. Also, not sure what the holdup is.
Thanks for that! I poked the developer via PM but I don't know if that will do anything.
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awalterj: ...
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tokisto: wow wow wow... I would not create expectations to not fall into (possible) frustation later, but I can´t let pass that Primordia is top notch!
I usually don't create expectations but Blackwell 4 (Deception) was a very pleasing experience for me so there was no reason to expect less from Epiphany. I finished Epiphany yesterday and while it was a solid game and wasn't disappointing, I didn't find it particularly impressive either because the game puts up no resistance whatsoever. Deception had at least a few moments where I had to concentrate and make a minor effort to progress.
And no, I'm not a bored genius or anything, I always get stuck in adventure games. But the Blackwell series are too easy for my taste, only Deception started to hit a sweet spot at least in some moments. I'm not into hardcore difficulty either, I feel most comfortable with moderate difficulty. Games like Resonance, Gemini Rue and Samaritan Paradox imho hit just the right amount of difficulty, neither too easy nor too hard.
In a perfect world, I wish every adventure had quality puzzles like Monkey Island 2, Day of the Tentacle and Fate of Atlantis, that's probably asking for a bit much though :)

I still rate the Blackwell series 5 stars because even if good puzzles are not the focus here, it would be unfair to punish something for not being what one personally wishes it would be.

EDIT: going to install Primordia next!
Post edited August 21, 2014 by awalterj