I played through the Neverhood and I needed an online walkthrough to finish it. For this one - nah! The game stay simple the whole time which I liked the most, most puzzles are fun, but there are one which I know the solution to it but was frustrating to solve (last door puzzle). Graphics are almost the same as Neverhood so I wouldn't say its great. However the game has easy achievements if you had it on console (I have). It takes about 4-6 hours to playthrough, so its shorter than most adventure games. I am not saying I loved Armikrog, but liked it to play through twice.
... and I loved it! If you played the previous 2 titles you know what to expect. Humorous sometiems verbose dialogues, with witty puzzles beautiful art design and music. The music score is one of the best I must say. You can see whole lot of people playing on guitar on youtube. You know it's hard to bring back the time these types of games were a mandatory for gamers. You can bring back time with this masterpiece and with less or no violence I can recommend it for young folks!
Enigmatis is a very simple casual adventure straight off the bat mixed with hidden object scenes. I said simple so you pick up/use staffs, play minigames, and no item combination which is fine by me. Truely I don't favourised the hidden object part due to the tiny objects! I played many more interested Hidden Objects games, this one was frustrating. The makers probably realised it because the bonus chapter "Ghosts of the Past" already improved that. I had to mention Enigmatis 2 much better in this. The story not really intimidating unless you finish the game and start the Bonus Chapter which in my opinion the best of Maple Creek. Knowing the fate of Hamilton's girlfriend from the base game makes really interesting how things happened! Of course you go way back in time this time as Hamilton to investigate what happened to his girlfriend. If you interested in story this add a few information about how long stretched back this disapperances and the Preacher is older than you imagined! I give a game 3 star, for Ghosts of the Past 3.5 star even its just a short story.
Unless.... First thing first. If you never played DnD ever, I really recommend to start with Baldurs Gate, because the lower starting classes and therefore difficulty. But if you committed yourself and ready to thoroughly learn Thac0 and spells (there are a lots), so fighting, you are good to go. Just don't complain if you a casual player because its not at all, but you'll see eventually! :P And there is no shame Resting in the game. ;)
Actually, for a reason :)! When I first saw the fighting system and even french stuff I was scared. I love Dungeons & Dragons 2 (Baldurs gate, Icewind dale) and loved Kotor witch is the never 3.0 version. But This gives me the creep whenever I see those circles.
Most people dont understand the meaning of the princess. She is Tim's soulmate!
Stronghold is an excellent 2D strategy, pure an easy to learn, though very deep and exciting. I like playing economy and defense campaign because I am not good at siege at all. Visually the game is simple the colours and effect very middle ageish. The interface plain and simple too, but there is a tutorial too. My favourite is the soundtrack, and voices in game. There are perfect! Now that I played through the game several times, I think the first 2-3 military mission, should be more challenging, since there is not many campaign. But after that you can prove your skills. I like this game because the fact is 2D and you can play only with a mouse and have a drink or something. I dont like messing with camera angles in 3D! After many blabla just play it! :)
... believe in fairy tales , Thanks to the games like these. I dont think because a protagonist is a child is meant to be for kids only. Far from it. If a had children I certainly recommend it for them because it blends many fairy (grimm, folk tales) characters and elements in that game, which for a young folk could be familiar. Not to mention I really enjoy this game. Daedalic guys are doing a really great job. Among Chains of Satinav, Memoria, Night of the Rabbit, Deponia, this is my next favourite. A beautiful story Not just for kids!
My feelings that developers have an amazing respect for the real game. Therefore they did not dare to change anything on the original. I must say this game still worth it even if the enhanched edition' graphic level nowhere to Pillars of Ethernity for instance. What developers really did they converted ID, updated for today's requirements, and at the same time they preserved the whole ID experience and made more convenient for rpg fans and newbies as well.
Really interesting to see this russian adventure (rpg). Not just because farting HoMM in face but contains a certain morality. Allright I know pretty much game do the same, but that is different somehow. A bit naive a bit childish, but if world were much similar to this game this would be a better place. I hope you guys - girls get the point!
