Posted on: November 12, 2018
squishyfrog
Игр: 428 Отзывов: 4
Meh. Odd puzzles and crashes
[I got this through a humble bundle, with others, for $1] Granted, I'm not much of a point-and-click adventure guy, primarily for the same reasons I wasn't horribly impressed with this one. The graphics update is great, it looks good (I switched to the original graphics many times to compare. Yes, that's an on-the-fly option, and a big thumbs up there). I honestly did have fun for the first hour. But then it started slogging down, pretty hard. I'm a 40 year old engineer, pretty bright, and I've been gaming since c64 days so there's not many games I have problems with. As I said, I don't play a lot of these types of games, mostly because of the same problem this one had. After a mere hour of playing, I ended up spending 2 more hours trying to figure out a single puzzle on my own. I ended up looking it up because it was too frustrating and it was down to "look it up, or quit." Anyway, I found the solution to be incredibly non-intuitive, and something I would have never honestly guessed at doing. The next 3 "puzzles," which occurred instantly thereafter, were just as maddening and non-intuitive. I also experienced multiple crashes (perhaps the GOG version avoids this problem? I doubt it, but that's no fault of anyone but the makers). I can see where old-school fans who played the game 30 years ago find it fun, it really does seem like a good title, and if it worked. . . and had puzzle solutions that made sense, I'd like to love it too. As a newcomer to this one (and again, not a big point-and-click adventure guy), I'm kind of sad this wasn't what I'd hoped for. There are multiple "hidden areas" (you have to click random locations, where there's no indication, or reason, that it's a valid place to click), the puzzles (at least at times) are completely non-intuitive, sometimes also hard to see, and I've had multiple crashes. I can't give this 4 or 5 stars, and I suspect those who did played it long ago or relied on walkthroughs the whole way through.
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