I bought this because of all the positive reviews, but was disappointed. - I'm unable to beat the vampire, even while difficulty is easy, my level is max and I have all silver armor. I have a ring to slow down the opponents, but that doesn't work with the vampire. I have a bottle of health potion but that doesn't work with the vampire. As all other monsters are not hard, I didn't need those 2 items until now, so the only occasion where I need them, they don't work! So I can't continue the game in the most easy mode. It seems the developers don't understand what "easy" means. - There is no map functionality. - Many boring mazes, with some secrets. Wouldn't have been able to solve those without a walk-through. - Ugly graphics ( but I knew that from the screenshots ) - The RPG elements are extremely shallow. -
I get nausea because of the head swaying/bobbing. You cannot switch it off, so I quit after 5 min. Also, you cannot save a game. Poor design decisions.
There is hardly any story. At each jump to another star some random event happens, often resulting in loss of fuel or damage to the ship. If you whish, you can call that a story. The gameplay is extremely repetitive. The hardest part is not to run out of fuel. I died a few times before I realized what not to do. I paid only $2.40 for it, and had some moderate fun with it, so I don't regret the purchase.
I admit being quite clumsy. Thus enemies kill me easily. Unfortunately you cannot set the difficulty (why, is that really so hard to implement?). Thus the game is worthless to me.
I got stuck early in the game. In a walkthrough I read about interaction with hotspots that don't work in my situation. E.g. the photography light in Pauline's room. When I press the icon to show the hotspots, they are shown, but a few of them don't react to my mouse pointer. Thus I can't play the game.
A typical point and click adventure. Pretty hard, I needed 2 hints from the internet. Several good puzzles but also some poor. Main gripes: Way too many mouse clicks required to navigate through the house and esp. the secret passages which are also very boring. It feels like the developers used it to increase the length of the game. They did succeed, but I didn't like it. Worst was the triangle puzzle where you need about 80 mouse clicks to travel from one part of the puzzle to the other part. And as I didn't know the solution to that puzzle, I spent much more. Not much variation of environment, all takes place in a single house. Several timed puzzles: I hate timed puzzles in an adventure game. Some inconsistencies in remarks of Nancy led me to the wrong conclusion. No text hints for the inventory items. Although most are clear I was completely stuck because I interpreted one image as a pair of biscuits, but is was something else.
