Well it's hard to wrote a review to this. The reason I am saying this is 'cause there are several ways to approach Atlantis the game. One's you are a nerd want to find something, a flaw e.g. in historical background, and want to complain because you can die. The other way is to realize Cryo Interactive's games more than that, they want to feel and understand those people back then were like us, they were greedy, hungry for power and knowledge, and they were loving. So if you understand these, you'll see the motivation behind it. If you ever played a Cryo game you know you only can understand the whole stuff if you dig yourself into the subject (I did with Atlantis 2) just to see there's no bull, almost everything is based on something, which makes it much more interesting. But the biggest mysterie to me how would they able to create such great graphic in '97? You'll die in the game a lot but I felt that is necessary most places to feel more palpably the tension. Pierre Estéve made a beautiful musical score (with Stéphane Picq) in every location, any situation fitted perfectly. I'm much concerned as Morpheus in Matrix that Atlantis existed (maybe still) so to me it was really interesting. It is really a masterpiece.
Our protagonist Mina isn't particulary interesting: stranded on an unhabited island and her only company is a monkey. Also if you aware the adventures Kheops makes you'd know this is an intellectual game based on historical facts as far as I know. So your parents should happy if you're a teenager or younger! About gameplay there are more than one solution to make progress, also there are many object you can combine. Setting is not a big deal in my opinion, animations comic book stylish! This solitary adventure offers a few hours exploring this island. To me wasN't an unforgettable experience but you should take a chance !
I bought this game about six years ago, it's a localized copy came with mistranslating and several crush at certain points, but these "extras" did not effect my review of the game. First thing first, I done a walked through of Road Adventure so I was well aware of the game mechanizm such as searchin' a spot 100 times, pixel hunting, and other inconsistencies, though those are not really changed, I'm not about to complain - but keep in mind. Our fresh millionaire couple in trouble again Gina is went missing on a tropical island, our primery goal to find and rescue her. Of course we have many difficulties, one of is our old crazy vacuum cleaner headed friend Joshua with his 4 number intelligence. Sometimes I felt very nervous because the way of certain solution workin'. One is this: you can keep a huge firewood, a chainsaw etc. in your pocket, but later you gonna receive two bottles of wine and in order to advance forward you have to put them down but you wont get even a slightest hint to do that. Summarization: + some cool setting as Junge, Tropical Island, Alaska, Pirate ship - ... except Shusi's ship + references to Monkey Island + Lokelani - lenghty and boring cutscenes at the end - ends on a cliffhanger
Well, even this game may not the best daedalic adventure, still carry a serious matter concerning our planet's future. Approx. seven billion people living, we're all seeing the all signs of warning of nature but no one care about it. However there's a man aware of the issue, but without any help decide to do nothing. His name Bent Svensson the one who responsible for apocalipse, even if his intensions are the opposite.
But that doesn"t mean bad. Far from it. Maybe it just my miserable life but it has brought me literally hundreds of pleasant hours, I can't wait to play. Playing Baldurs Gate 2 means playin' hard, having lot of funny moment and sad, making hard decisions, and above all fallin love with this world. I have a great love in medieval, fantasy worlds (Kings' Quest ?). I am still remember some odd event has occured during gameplay. Jawdropping MAXimum.
The game has some weakness technically, thats for sure. On the other hand the graphic design, voices, music is excellent. The story like Fairy tale, full of twist, with a white rabbit called (funny) Marquis de Hoto. He is our guidance, with dark past but not really revealed what it is exactly - anyway I love Marqui de Hoto. Mousewood such a nice place. THere are many character you 'll meet through your journey. I even loved that grumpy Rabbit who natter about his garden. Jerry Hazelnut our protagonist such a lovely child, living with his parents, in the wood far from the grey dusty city. His dream to become a magician seems to come true when he receives an envelope with some instructions. Soon after he"ll meet with Marqui my favourite character in the game and with his help visit Mousewood to become a Treewalker...
Yesterday a walked through B.B.'s great adventure, again. I got this game around 2003, it was one of my first adventure. I've seen a review in a gamer magazine with some pics. First I noticed it's cartoonish style , that really caught my attention. So I bought it, and installed the 3 CDs at once. Right from the beginning I really enjoyed the game, the hand drawn pictures, characters, Gina's body too. Story to me wasn't mind a blowing thing, but I must admit they made a really smart ending. Dark side is the somewhat hard gameplay. You know, searching the same box tenfold, or the small microscopic objects left unnoticed. Keepin all in mind this is almost a perfect adventure, memorable with great soundtrack. Don't miss the sequels too!
Right from the beginning I felt the tension but was not unnecessarily scared... at first. Then when I running from something I didn't even know what it is... man, my heart throbbed like hell. It felt a bit similar when I played Call of Cthulhu at the motel room. Anyway thats the way any horror game should operate.
This game looks so boring. The game doesn't even uses mouse cursor?! Still if you give a try, you"ll find how bizarre, deep physcho story really is. The design depicts the woman actuall feeling, I think - sometimes grey, sometimes colorful. There is no pixel hunting, but I found this game challenging at some point. I feel the same some times...
Though it's a very very short story if you an adventure gamer you can't miss this one!
