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Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

If you're a diehard point-and-click fan, you'd like it.

I just had to write it because I feel damn cheated. I gave it a low score not because of any missing localizations or anything. The game just isn't good enough. The story is nice, but is terribly drawn out even for a point-and-click adventure. Lots of the puzzles are not exactly logical, but apparently the designers knew that -- so they included the hint system, which is still not enough. In addition, there's too much forced back and forth running which again doesn't always (if it makes any when you have to go back and forth to ask for four different passwords) make much sense. In few places where you can actually circumvent it, guess what happens? Game breaks. On the story side... On one hand, there is not enough Aventuria feel. On the other, authors tried to compensate for it by stuffing gods' names and related expressions where needed and not -- and thank Twelve, I know them well enough -- but I had to explain to my wife even basic things like what "Boron's wheel"'s significance is, why some character mentions a specific deity or another, etc. Honestly, it feels like nothing but an attempt to "piggyback" on a well-known brand. Would have been way more honest to create an own world. Most characters in the game are either too flat or inconsistent. Nuri behaves completely out of character quite a few times, not as a fairy relatively new to human world but seasoned and jaded. All-in-all... If you expect DSA... Forget it. If you expect above subpar quality... Forget it. If you're into point-and-click adventures where you have to light fire by first buying a bottle of wine, giving it to a drunkard in a second location for him to empty it, then breaking the bottle -- and in no other way than combining it with a fire hydrant in third location (nevermind all other objects you can smash it against), then chipping a pencil with the shard to get chippings, then go into the store again to buy some wire and combine it with the bottle's bottom to make a magnifying glass and use it on the chippings in a sun ray -- all that instead of just buying matches or a lighter -- it's your game.

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