Posted on: June 15, 2012
vc2281
Jeux: 50 Avis: 3
A very pretty and very flawed game
So being a fan of the adventure genre, I figured I had to play Pendulo's "Runaway" series. I played them all in order, and I'd have to say that unfortunately "Dream of the Turtle" is by the weakest installment. That's not to say the game is all bad - the visuals are gorgeous and Brian Basco remains as charming as ever. The settings are mostly quite varied. However, the real trouble comes in with the gameplay and design. To begin, some of the puzzles are pretty arbitrary, but then again every adventure game has this problem. However, "Dream of the Turtle" takes this to another level... I won't spoil any details but you'll have to repeat things a lot to figure out the right solution. And here comes my biggest gripe: the animations. What i mean by this is that if you want to talk to somebody, you'll see the character do a long animation, then walk over slowly, then start talking. AND THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME. Now there's this one part in the beginning where you might talk to a Colonel. You might do this more than once. This means you'll have to talk to the guard, get led down, sit down, see a bunch of short cutscenes repeating the same thing again, then see another long cutscene of him telling you to get out. AND YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS EVERY TIME YOU NEED TO TALK TO HIM. These kind of repetitive actions/scenes really tempted me to put the game down - you just get sick of hearing the same thing over and over again. Couldn't Pendulo just have made a quick intro once, then get to the conversation, and take out those short cutscenes? They take forever! Speaking of length, some of the cutscenes towards the end are unimaginably long and really drag out this game too long. AND it ends on a cliffhanger. Talk about leaving a bad impression. Fortunately, "A Twist of Fate" is much, much, much better and smoother so it resolves nicely. If you are an adventure fan I'd say pass but if you want to find out what happens between "A Road Adventure" and "A Twist of Fate" I'd say give it a try.
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