This game moves SO SLOWLY. It took me a full hour+ to lose the "destined to lose" first rival game. I just don't have the time to wait for text to slowly scroll and for computer players to take 3-5 minutes to complete a turn. I really want to like the game! The concept is interesting, but the execution is just so poor. I'm also not sure why we need a fully 3D navigable overworld in a card battler, especially when so many other elements of the game are lacking.
I'm honestly sort of surprised by all the 5 star reviews here, as I didn't enjoy this "game" at all! It was a great disappointment after playing Sins of the Fathers. This type of FMV interactive movie leaves much to be desired. Instead of being an adventure game it's essentially a pointless quest of video transitions and running back and forth to figure out who you need to talk to next or what hotspots to click to advance the plot. Puzzles are few and far between and largely consist of, for example, using a newly-found screwdriver on the screwdriver-shaped hole directly above the toolbox. And God forbid you want to ask about something before you've picked up the letter at the post office that makes it blindingly obvious what information is important. In fact, the nature of the game is such that Gabriel, a character I loved in the first game, became a dull-witted Ken doll who couldn't put two and two together to get four. For example, Gabriel has to ask his LAWYER what to do about analyzing wolf tracks instead of letting the player grab a freakin' phone book and look up the university. Grace was also grating, turning from a capable woman that could go toe-to-verbal-toe with Gabriel into a shrieking harpy with zero empathy (really, Grace? Was THAT the time to tell him there was a problem?). Essentially the game is an interactive movie, not a game. I wouldn't mind watching the movie (although the acting is laughably bad at times), but don't ask me to watch countless recycled shots of an actor walking up and down stairs and streets while I run from one end of Germany (nee Bavaria) to the next in pursuit of information that could easily have been obtained all at once.
