This game is my childhood love. It is a spiritual successor to Amberstar and Ambermoon from Amiga, so the gameplay is refined over many years. It has gorgeous pixelart graphics, beautiful music, an engaging tactical turn-based combat, a captivating story, old-school hardcore dungeons and it is huge - it takes dozens of hours to complete. An absolute gem of a game.
What an amazing sequel. Enjoyed it even more than the great first one.
Apart from the botched release and janky patches for years, this one turned out great and I'm periodically returning to it, although I still haven't finished it. This is a great example of "the journey is greater than the destination". Some of the side stories are better than the main storyline.
The game scratches the Deux Ex itch and contains some of the greatest writing and quests. But the technical side of things is still wonky even after 4 years since release. An aquired taste for some.
The games are slight variations, not evolutions of the formula. I became extremely bored after a few hours. I would rather recommend Shadowgrounds over this.
I've always loved Gobliiins. I loved the artstyle, I loved the humor, I loved the sense of discovery as I figured out the nonsensical and illogical puzzles. Without a guide as a teen I would be lost. But it still is a gorgeous game and it's still fun to play. You can now choose between the CD and the floppy version, so don't listen to the abysmal reviews criticising those issues. Also the audio works great.
A good metroidvania that looks and handles just like a NES game, unfortunately marred by bullshit difficulty, that might be just a tad too difficult for you to swallow. I nevertheless enjoyed it very much. I also had to look up 2 things that stopped my progress. It took a little over 9 hours to finish.
This is a clear inspiration by the Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis. The puzzles are logical, unlike the Monkey Island craziness, which I liked very much. And the humor. Some objects in the game are nonetheless very well hidden and the slow walking speed makes the game more tedious. But the game is very entertaining. Wish I played it back then in 1997 when I played Indy4. There's nothing quite like it!
First of all the technical state is really lacking and you need to install the Nox Solution unofficial patch to even play it with sound on modern systems. I loved it back in the day of Diablo 2, but unlike that game this aged really poorly. I still enjoy the game mechanics, but the game is overly long for the few quirks it has up it's sleeve, the story is too basic and some of the enemy/combat designs are just frustrating. The difficulty is pretty hardcore for the modern audience.
Poor controls (really), a lot of configuring required to get it even working on a modern system with Windows 10, I cannot recommend it at all. Without a special patch that's not included in the base download, the mouse is not working in the menus at all. Even with the patch the mouselook skips all over the place and renders the game basically unplayable. The 3D graphics part is solved through nGlide emulation which, albeit somehow working in the actual engine, screws up the menus for me. And the game constantly switches fullscreen modes for menus/videos and the ingame engine itself, which on itself takes a few seconds everytime, making it painful just to wait to get into the game. I'm really disappointed in this, it's almost no different than the 20 years old copy I have in my library and you're left to figure it out yourself.
