Obduction ®

I thoroughly enjoyed Myst and Riven - absolute masterpieces, alluring mysterious worlds of wonder and awe with puzzles both deeply challenging and rewarding. Obduction seemed intriguing at first...but I found it to be just okay. The story / premise was not half as mysterious and wonderous, the characters not as intriguing, and some of the major puzzles were rather tedious: The slow minecart puzzle, the tons of load-screen-inducing world shifting, and the tons backtracking just to see if I'd moved a piece into the right place. The big ones were a bit chore-like in the end. I'm hoping that, someday, they return to something more in the ball-park of Myst again.

For me, Obduction is too disorientating. It is a well-made game, but there are too many times that a walk-through hint is required. There are so many portals and paths that unfortunately I became disorientated many times, so stopped playing the game because it wasn't a sufficiently rewarding experinence.

This game does NOT allow remapping of keyboard controls. It's like CYAN are somehow stuck in the age of the dinosaurs.

Graficznie ok... i tyle dobrego. Gra bardzo, bardzo! ślamazarna, i jest symulatorem chodzenia. To ponoć gra logiczna, więc potencjalni chętni będą ciekawi jakości zagadek. Cóz... myślenia tu niewiele. Czeba raczej wykazać się cierpliwością, bo zawarte w grze teleportacyjne roszady są zbyt czasochłonne! Bieganie jest zbyt wolne! Przy poruszaniu skokowym łatwo zgibić orientację, bo gra sama obruci postać! Nawet wywołanie menu trwa 2 sekundy! Przestrzegam przed tą grą; tylko stracisz swój czas. Ale żeby nie być takim malkontentem wspomnę, że użyty styl artystyczny przywodzi skojarzenia z serią Myst.

It's a fine game, and i had fun solving it's puzzles and unravelling the story.