Posted on: June 10, 2018
tommish911
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Insanely hard Adventure game from Hell
Being a fan of adventure games and especially the detective SH Games, I wanted to try this notoriously acclaimed game, despite all the bad critism I could read about this opus of the series. Anyway...after completing all the games of the series, I had to finish with the Holy Grail. When you are a fan, skipping one episode is not an option. Well, I must say I have not been disappointed at all and that the few game reviews I could read here and there were pretty accurate: this game is pure Hell. The title itself: Nemesis, that means "Vengeance" in ancient greek by the way is pretty well appropriated when it comes to solve the mysteries and try to break through the enigmas of this horrific game. Nemesis, vengeance ? Is this game a vengeance against all the casual gamers out there ? Is it a sign of rebellion against the casualization of the adventure games trend of those last years. If the response is yes, the aim is perfectly reached. I do not know if this game is the most "harcore" adventure game ever created, but, it probably is amongst the few titles that can compete for that title. - First of all, the game is insanely long. Once you solve a very hard and long sequence (like the Museum and the paintings...no spoiler intended here in case some people had the courage to really solve this sequence without the help of a Walkthrough), you think you made good progress and that the plot and story is going to advance...big mistake. The same slow pace prevails, and the same insanely hard and not intuitive gameplay sequences will follow. - Hopefully, the remastered version offers the possibility to highlight the active zones on the screen to ease the ...pain...hmm...I meant, progression in the game. - The game is no rewarding whatsoever in its progression. For example, the Painting Sequence (in the Museum) for example, could easily be a sequence towards the end or even leading to the ending of a classic with average difficulty game. (if you compare to other SH games with a lower difficulty). Here, it is just, basically the beginning of the game. And as mentionned before, solving a sequence won't bring any sense of accomplishment or triggering even the smallest cutscene. Nope. This is just for the pure pleasure of solving insanely difficult sequences and mini-games. -The graphics are outdated: well, I would not put that as a bad point since when you play that kind of games, you know that you are not quite there for the "graphics" or for the quality of the textures of audio. - Even with the help of a walkthrough, some game sequences are difficult to solve, hard to find, or not intuitive. Basically, all the actions must be accomplished by deducing the intentions of Arsene Lupin's Evil Plan to outgrow's SH intelligence...and I must say Arsene is pretty good at creating evil schemes that seem unsolvable to the flock of mortal players (or am I really that bad at solving mysteries ?) An example of that is finding the code of a lock for a crate at the start of the museum. Nothing of interest in this crate really...but findind the combination of that code will need calculations and deductions that outgrow difficulty that you can find in other SH games. And it is just opening a pointless crate that has no major incidence on the plot... - If new modern era SH games brought intuitive clue and deduction trees, nice cutscenes and a cinematic and emphatic style for the scenario, none of that can be found here. Sorry for the insisting references to the "evil" aspect of this game, but I cannot see any other adjective to describe a game, that seems like a neverending sequence of painful gameplay sequences with no reward at all. In conclusion, I would say that this game is to be reserved to purists, people who genuinely dedicated their gaming spare time to the Sherlock Holmes cause and that are not afraid to renounce or even question themselves about why on earth would they enjoy playing such a "game". I put quotation marks because to this day, I thought "playing a game" was meant to have fun from it at some point. Maybe I was wrong... When even a game is hard to play with a walkthrough, one has to have faith into one's talent to solve mysteries. For all those reasons, I put 2 stars beause I think despite all of those negative elements...this game is a unique gem, maybe the most frustrating and difficult adventure game ever created to the day. In an era where casual games for casual gamers are the rule, maybe this title will retrospecively be remembered as a milestone in video-games. Or maybe, symbolise the end of an era.
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