Posted on: August 9, 2016

Roisack

Jeux: Avis: 21

Decent adventure with plenty of issues

For a game released in 2014 this title seems extremely dated. It might be that I'm used to more finalized adventure games (namely from Wadjet Eye) and haven't played any of the more basic Adventure Game Studio releases in a while. The biggest downside of the game were the bugs. On two occasions I ended up having a bug that required me to reload and earlier save as I was in an unwinnable state. Once the game stopped rendering the graphics after a screen transition during a cutscene, leaving the game screen completely black until I restarted the game. The path-finding has a few quirks, and sometimes the wrong animations played when walking around. The story of the game, like in most adventure games, is one of the better aspects. For many adventure titles the story is made too complex and the ending arrives hurried. In this case I felt the story might have been a bit on the simpler side and wasn't deep or long enough. The characters were enjoyable enough, the protagonist being my favorite. Voice acting was passable, but a few characters had voices that were simply bad. Puzzles were refreshing difficult - even too much so. It's rare, but in this case I had to resort to a walkthrough to finish the game. A few of the puzzles required some knowledge that to my understanding cannot be found inside the game world. A die-hard adventure game player will probably solve all the puzzles with determination, though. Music was good.

Trouvez-vous ce commentaire utile ?

Posted on: October 9, 2019

Mika_J_Olaussen

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: 173 Avis: 3

It could have been 4 or 5

I like that it is possible to do some things out of order (or at least that the game makes it feel like it is), but I also heavily dislike how, as events happen and the story unfold, the dialogue is nearly never updated. This was really inimical to my enjoyment of an otherwise good story and is my main reason for not giving this game at least one more star. If you like point and click games in general then there really is little (objective) reason why you shouldn't also like this one. A couple of annoyances experienced during my playthrough (with nano spoilers about something you will need to during the game - gameplay related): At two times duing my playthrough I had to look up a walkthrough only to discover that I hadn't clicked exactly the right pixels to hide or, in the second case, hid in the wrong spot. It also had annoyances like text saying something akin to "I don't need to do this with that" at points where you really could do that, only you had to click on the thing first and then do the other thing :) That being said, overall, I liked many of the puzzles.

Trouvez-vous ce commentaire utile ?

Posted on: March 10, 2015

LinustheBold

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: 889 Avis: 6

So Close, and yet Not

This is the sort of game I love to like: an independent voice, an unusual story, a step out of corporate gaming into a fresh new territories. New perspectives. Alas; I found the gameplay too often undermined by poor puzzle design and missing information to really score. The story is mostly charming, and there are plenty of good ideas present. A couple of the tent-pole puzzles are ridiculously baroque, in the ornate style of old adventure games - fair enough. That's why the Internet Gods made walkthroughs. But I found myself facing other puzzles without the details I needed to solve them, because of illogic, vague conception, or poorly-described surroundings - in lo-fi AGS graphics, it's often not clear what is what, and some of the important descriptions here leave a lot to be desired. Ultimately, it has the feel of a project play-tested by someone who already knew the answers to all the puzzles. Which is a pity, because there's a lot of meat on these bones, and there's some fun functionality quietly built in. You'll find a jukebox in your travels, for example, and once you've done what you need to do in that scene, you can actually play a handful of tunes on it. Nice! Ord, our hero, is as usual in adventure games a pilfering machine, but he pulls a few stunts that made me really question his morals. And there's a weird Scandinavian plunge into darkness in the last moments of the story that makes the ending strange and jarring. Add to that some puzzles in which active areas are - mistakenly, I hope - not marked, animation cues are misleading, or the avatar must be positioned within a hair's breadth of an arbitrary pixel to escape an automatic reload, and the experience was quite frustrating for me. It wasn't hard, for the most part, so much as unfair. That said, puzzles that are properly presented are unlikely but very satisfying to solve, and the - well, it's interesting, make no mistake. Whether it's pleasant for you is a matter of taste.

Trouvez-vous ce commentaire utile ?

Posted on: March 19, 2022

lanchong

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: 74 Avis: 24

Good point and click adventure game

If you enjoyed retro games like the Blackwell series, you will love The Samaritan Paradox. I had to refer to the walkthrough for some difficult puzzles and the timed sequences.

Trouvez-vous ce commentaire utile ?

Posted on: January 22, 2024

ZigaZigec

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: Avis: 10

Great game!

One of the best point'n'click games that I've ever played. Great story, great characters, perfect length. The difficulty of puzzles is just right, there's only one that's a bit over the top (looking at you, the crossword puzzle) and another one, that requires some general knowledge of history and can't be solved merely through information provided through the game. (looking at you, the calendar riddle).

Trouvez-vous ce commentaire utile ?

Découvrez les jeux de CD PROJEKT RED

Ne manquez pas

Featured

Proche, mais pas une correspondance exacte

The Samaritan Paradox

Autres notes

Ajouter un avis

Modifier un avis

Supprimer cet avis ?

Signaler cet avis

Informations complémentaires (obligatoire) :

Signaler cet avis