This game had potential, an alright story with beautiful music and good looking backgrounds, too bad for some gameplay aspects that spoiled the experience in my view. The way you interact with the world for one could've been better, many of the descriptions you are given are ridiculously useless in most cases and don't reveal anything about puzzles or about what the protagonist thinks about the world around. Also there's no way to examine your inventory items and that's absurd imo. About objects, there's plenty of those lying around and too many of those have no use at all in the game, I understand this may be supposed to make you think more about what you pick up or not, but in truth it only takes the player to the point where he doesn't even rely on the objects he has anymore because his inventory is a heap of unusable stuff. You get to the point you use the objects you have only in occasions where it's obvious you're supposed to need a rope or a key or the like. This high number of junk items, lacking any description actually kills the puzzle-solving, it makes the player not even want to start manipulating his inventory or interact with the world around him because he just has too much stuff, has no motivation and knows the game'll tell him it doesn't work anyway. Much stuff that would look useful in any other adventure game, here has no use. What's the point? I'd rather have less items in the game and have more chances to use them to solve puzzles and feel like item x was worthy and that I used it the right way. Puzzles then, there's some illogical ones and in some cases they require you to find new items or people which appear into the game after you've done this or that thing or spoken with somebody about it. There's also a couple dead ends I've found that forced me to reload a previous save game because I got to a particular stage without the proper items or because a character couldn't be created in the game anymore but that one's an isolated case. You can still quick save and load at will so you don't risk losing hours replaying through, even if you die. This still is a good game alright but only for willing adventure fans.
