I started the game and got hooked immediately because this was exactly the kind of game I expected to play. It has that nice small team indie feeling around it. Someone who wants to tell a nice story. The puzzles were good and I only had to google up a hint at one single place (Goober outside hospital thing), but I was expecting the game to be at least double the size of length to go deeper into the storyline and reveal more facts that would have surprised me. When I thought I was somewhere in the middle of the game, it was actually close to the end. So it was not really clear "where" in the game I was. But since I played it from start to end without being annoyed by very much, I have to give it 4 of 5.
Since I was expecting this to be more like an interactive movie than a game, then I had that mindset from the start which is probably required if you're going to play this game. If you enjoyed Dreamfall Chapters (The third game in The Longest Journey saga), then you will love this game. It's not hard, it's just very very very cozy and exciting. I love the mix of regular high school drama combined with soft guitar music, and influences of the supernatural. That is totally my cup of tea. I would not stand this game if it was just high school drama and nothing else (that's why I don't really dare to play the second game currently). Well, if it wasn't for playing this game together with my GF, it would probably have brought me into tears. I loved it and I kind of want to come back to this game in 5 years again to pick some other dialogue options to see how the history goes. Max rating from my side in its genre!
This feels like a combination of all MMucas Flem PnCs and I have waited 3 years to play this. I bought it to play it immediately, but did not have the energy since I wanted to replay Monkey Island and the other games instead of starting a new adventure. Which I kind of regret. I started playing this three years later and it felt just like "lol, are they really trying to do something that will be even close to the old 90s PnCs in greatness? This feels just like some lousy ripoff, please try something new". But after 10 minutes, it was more like "Ok, it's quite interesting after all. I may like this a bit". Then after an hour I was "Wow, this is really something". After 2 hours I felt confident within Ron Gilbert's hands, he did it again. Another masterpiece. I just finished the game and wow, what a plot! I'm very much impressed and my hat is off forever when it comes to Ron Gilbert future games.
I thought this was a hidden gem, but it wasn't. Maybe I gave it too little time and it may actually be good? I played the first 45 minutes but I never got hooked. If only the fighting part would have had more "feeling". I want to smash my sword against an enemy so that the enemy flies away with a nice and nasty sound. But there was not even any "on hit" sound effects? And the enemies did not react at all when they were hit?! Only when they died. I did not get the attonments at all. If I'm going to play this game, then fix a normal skill tree and also what I mentioned above. I'll uninstall the game meanwhile. Music and graphics was good and I saw a great potential, but no. Not finished.
I've been a great fan of these kind of games ever since I played Darkness Within for the first time. Barrow Hill is not totally different and that is what I wanted. Imagine playing Myst/Riven, but with haunted house theme, then you have Barrow Hill in a nutshell. I just finished it and I was very satisfied since I did not cheat at all and could still finish it out in 10 hours. Now I'm going for Barrow Hill 2!
I don't know if you're supposed to play two characters alone or not, but I'm playing this with my GF at the moment and we enjoy every second of it. She plays with the arrow keys as the child and I play with WASD as the big brother. I've never had so much 2 player fun since Chip n Dale for the NES. This is totally awesome.
This is an awesome combination of Might & Magic, Ultima, Lands of Lore and Sword of Vermillion. If you liked all the games I mentioned, then you will be totally hooked to this game. I got hooked almost immediately and it's awesome to see a modern game sharing the same graphic style as the old classics. I totally love it, the sprites are very well made and they fit very good into that "simple" graphic style. It feels like playing Sword of Vermilion, but the 3D version. I've been waiting for this!
This is some combination of Settlers, Age of Empires and a little bit of Dungeon Keeper and Populous 3. Of Course not as good as any of the four mentioned games, but still very worth playing. I wanted to give the gog version 2/5 since the soundtrack does not work properly. There is Only main menu music and esc menu music. The in-game music is gone in the gog version so I don't want to play this version until they resolve that issue. But - I know the game from before and it's a 4/5 game so I will try to raise the average score a bit!
Somehow this reminded me of "No one lives forever", but western style and more "hack and slash". I got hooked immediately and finished the game within a week. The RPG style really does it all. You don't really want to quit until you've reached the next level and you really make an effort finding all the secrets because of the XP bonus. Very beautiful atmosphere and graphics which I think was a bit ahead of its time. Voice acting is totally superb compared with it's predecessors. Sound effects of the gun shots are much more joyful as well. I totally love how they tell a story while playing and then "...but that was not how it actually was" and then they reverse the game back to the beginning again with another plot. This is totally ingenious. Love this game! 10/10
I spend around 10 hours of playing time on this game and every second was worth it, even the really boring puzzles. Sometimes there need to be some really bad parts in between to actually be able to focus on the good stuff properly. I think that was intentionally done. I was playing To the Moon about a year ago and that story totally caught me and I was 100% there, and only there in that world. It felt so living and happy and sad and my body was flooding with different emotions. I mean, the music itself could almost summon those emotions, but the game made sense of all the music and together they ended up in these games. I was heading for A Bird Story after that but it was extremely slow and boring and I just wanted to run it through to get a grip of the "story" but I really got nothing out of A Bird Story. It felt reallt crappy somehow. I waited half a year or something before I even tried Finding Paradise because A Bird Story kind of disappointed me. Now with a fresh mind playing Finding Paradise I got totally hooked immediately and I got the same feelings as when I played To the Moon. Even A Bird Story became great since that game started making sense after playing this game. Now I feel some kind of story completeness inside and I'm both sad and happy and confused about my own life since I just finished the game while writing this. I miss the characters a lot, I don't know why. I especially miss one character because she really reminds me of what I feel that I'm missing in my life. Just play this game and play the other ones as well. I started crying in both TTM and FP so if this guy can make so many people becoming so vulnerable, then there really is something here.
