Posted on: April 4, 2022
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Charming and relaxing adventure
This game is sort of hidden gem that not many people played or even heard of but apparently almost everyone who did loved or at least liked it very much. It was no different with me who learned about it's existence accidentally in year 2022 and was convinced by exceptionally good opinions and low price to try it out. It's not easy to explain what's so good about it because on paper it certainly doesn't look like anything extraordinary. LH is traditional point and click adventure with absolutely nothing original or groundbreaking. "Indianajonesy" story is entertaining and even has some decent twists. Characters are very stereotypical and not particularly likeable nor interesting. Main protagonist is some silly always cool and ever joking British rascal. He has counterpart in the person of his clever and sensible Asian not-girlfriend which sadly got little screen time. And main antagonist is very cliche Nazi countess. And yet there is some irresistible charm in all this. Scope of the story is pretty big and includes many diverse locations suitable for grand adventure like: Himalayan mountains, African town, Berlin during Olympics, castle on German countryside and jungle. Gameplay mechanics are very traditional and based mostly on inventory puzzles. On rare occasions we have to cooperate between two characters which gets especially interesting in the endgame stage with kind of butterfly effect gimmick. In contrast to plot constantly implying urgency of situation, the game itself is very laid back. It's impossible to die, run out of time or otherwise screw things up here even when it would seem natural, which makes playing LH very relaxing and pleasant experience. Especially combined with not too high difficulty. Not often adventure games give me such frustration-free time. Balance is pretty much perfect here, every once in a while I had to slow down to figure things out but never to the very common in this genre point of frustration or necessity to use walkthrough.
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