Lost Horizon 2

Lost Horizon is one of my favourite P'n'C titles and a regular replay choice. This was sadly not all I hoped for. Paddock is older and still tied up with the Army but has lost a lot of his swagger and humour that made him appealing. A lot of the puzzles are rather run-on-rails and walking back and forth in the harbour asking the same question to unlock dialogue options was a particular lowpoint. The callback to the seemingly out of place prelude was interesting, but the conclusion was rather flat and doesn't actually feel like it resolved the issue. Worth playing, but prepare for disappointment in the rushed feeling of the end.

A classic point and click adventure game. It's fast paced (less dialogue than Broken Sword for instance) an adventure story with a sprinkling of action in some diverse locations around the world. Graphics are fine (to me at least, but I still consider the 90s pixelart games beautiful, so many may not agree with me!). Backgrounds are slightly dynamic by zooming in and out on occasion. Puzzles are fairly logical, though one puzzle near the end had me reaching for the built-in walkthrough. Sound, music and voice acting are all competent. Warning: Near the beginning there's a QTE bit, but luckily it's quite easy. Overall the game felt less epic than the first Lost Horizon, but enjoyable nonetheless. I won't spoil the story, but the last part is pretty neat.

Solid game with detailed graphics and easy gameplay. Point and click adventure with some manageable action sequences. A nice pass-time "made in Germany" but not 100% up to the international top level games.

First of all: if this game was labelled as Lost Horizon 1, it would have been passable and then LH2 (which in fact came first) would have been an even more pleasant experience. If anyone wants to try both games, I strongly suggest starting with this one. Then you would give yourself a chance to experience progressive development. If you have already played LH1, you better not touch this. I find it near incredible how a development team could screw a near perfect game like LH1 like this. I am totally puzzled.

...even though Germans are such adventure games junkies that they keep churning them out at a frantic rate. Unfortunately, quality is tanked in the process. Let's see... we have a story that is both verbose and riddled with ellipses, not to mention boring and unoriginal, a particular level is prone to CTD, the music in the final cutscene rips off Jeremy Soule's best known composition, the game is fairly short, the characters' psychology may have been drawn up by a scatterbrained teenager, specific scenes from some movies are obvious "inspirations" for some plot lines, etc... But seriously, more time and discipline would have allowed for a decent game.