I don't get it, why anyone - non prepped - would ever define this game as "freedom of movement". Just because you do big jumps, this is not freedom of movement. Most of the game you only have one way to go. Its a pipe-shooter, no sidepaths, little exploration, little freedom. One star for being one of the action games that has an in story explanation for inhuman jumping capabilities.
I bought this game, because it got so many 5 star reviews, "best game ever", "overlooked classic", etc. Just played into it and I don't see it. Its not even mediocre and a far shot to "best game ever". The controls are awkward... very awkward. I get it, it is made for the console, but this sells the PC version and it really makes no sense for example select menu items with the keyboard and then have to confirm with the left mouse button. wtf?! Everything is super glitchy and flickering to me. I get an headache after a few minutes and the setting and story as I get it feels like being thrown into a 1970s Japanese action cartoon. This is NOT an adventure game like one of the top reviews says. I don't know what exactly it is. My lesson, don't trust GOG reviews on some games, the site has some major issues with positive fake reviews it seems.
The story is pretty original and the characters good some real depth, something you miss often in todays games. Installation on a modern PC can be a quite a hassle, especially the game does not seem to take well on notebook graphic cards. One or two puzzles could use a little tweaking to make them right, otherwise its all logical and fair. If you like adventures or ever want to try one, you should get this game. In my opinion, don't bother with its successor Dreamfall, tough.
I just don't get it. I read "combination of Dialobo II and Morrowind" on one of the reviews and was oh Jummy! First thing that turned me off, no wide screen support. Then I picked that Magic and Sword-girl since I like being a spellsword. But surely, metal wings as armor? What where they thinking? The main story is as far I can see it meh. And the quests so prototypical. And most of the time its hold-the-mouse-button-game-until-everything-is-dead. This is so much clichés thrown into one thing, I can hardly bare it. I cannot give a full good review, I just conclude somehow there where too many things that just turned me off and made it no where near Diabolo, and regarding drawing a similarity to Morrowind. What was that review thinking? This is nothing like Morrowing.
I was looking for this game for quite a while, since I absolutely loved the Flash Game "Haunt the House", and someone posted there is a whole shelf game like this. I was very glad to finally get it from on GOG. First the big plus: it is original. How many games have we played where we know the mechanics, because the whole "genre" is the same thing over and over again? Ghost Master is something different! Scaring people is fun. The sounds and music are okay. Next to the big plus there are unfortunally many minus signs in execution. The game often feels peripatetic, not only in voice acting, but also it tests your frustration tolerance to wait more and more until one of the toons finally does or it as the place you need it to be. The "puzzles" to get additonal spirits is a nice idea to not make all levels similar to Haunt the House, scare everybody. But in practice it are sometimes arbitrary loops you have to jump through, where going without walkthrough ever you really need nerves of steel. The whole interface is not too original and unneedly complicated. Like orders and powers would have easy to make more original and better look&feel than stricting to menu structure. The cut-scenes come without warning and any click make them go away, so you often dismiss them without intending to. Even for its time the graphics are meh, low polygons and textures, but for ones with weaker CPU this might be a plus. Right now I have played through two acts and don't have the nerves for act three. Comparing Ghost Master to the flash game "Haunt the House", I like the second one more, and it shows what potential a scare game like this in 3D and full shelf-value production has missed would it have been better executed.
