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.
Because of the high gradings I just had to buy this game and see if it was a "real" horror game compared to all the other ones, like many reviews said. I've been playing the game for 2-3 hours now but I'm not that impressed as I should be. Feels like there is something that is missing. I was playing Layers of Fear about a year ago and it was totally horrifying. I was not scared at all while playing Amnesia. The environments looks all the same and it feels like it's a lot of copy paste assets everywhere with empty boxes and drawers. I mean, it was the same thing with Layers of Fear, but everything was unexpected with that one. However, it feels like a good game, but I have not really been scared yet. I will probably give it some more hours tomorrow. And yes - I had it pitch black with very good sound at a loud volume level.
I just wanted to try my new game for 5 minutes with my girlfriend next to me. I just wanted to open the first iron gate and then turn the game off again because my GF really dislike gaming. But we started thinking together and she got hooked immediately and did not want to stop playing. Now she want to play this game with me all the time to finish it up because she feel liked she's contributing even if I handle all the mouse clicking. So this is very suitable as a 2 player game (like Samorost 3 and other puzzle games). I really like the puzzle solving and the atmosphere myself as well. A really good game! I'm so happy I got her into gaming because of this game. I don't think Simon the Sorcerer or Monkey Island would have worked the same because those games are too big and requires so much try everything on everything. This is more convenient as an introduction game to the genre since it's a rather small world with more concrete puzzles and more logic is included and you feel more smart when solving a puzzle in Tormentum then combining a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. A must try for fans of the genre.
