A great Daedelic point n click adventure. I don't know why this one only get's 3 stars and less by others here on gog, when other games here in the same adventure genre get 4 and 5 stars that are a lot more linear, have puzzles that make no sense what so ever, contain pixel hunting out the wazoo, and half of the inventory you have is contains useless crap that does nothing in the game. This is a great adventure, that has none of that nonsense. Unlike most other adventures, this one isn't short either, and it is rather challenging without having to google a walkthrough for half the game. You can find out where to click by pressing the space bar, but I only had to do that once during the whole game. This isn't one of those "let's just throw stuff you point and click here and call it an adventure game" like so many of the other adventure games are. The puzzles makes sense, the invetory makes sense, the story makes senses. You control two characters. You get to switch which one to play by clicking on the portrait of the one you want to play at the moment. Sometimes one character will get something in their inventory, but the other character is the one who needs it. You can't just switch item from one character's inventory to the other character's inventory. You have to find other characters in the game who will do that for you, so there is a bit of a challenge here too, but this makes it challenging. If you like adventure games, this is one you should get, and this coming from someone who doesn't really like adventure games all that much for the reasons stated above, but this one is one of the rare exceptions.
My system meets all the system requirements listed on GOG. This game simply does not work on OS/X 10.9
Definitely not worth the $15 price. I bought this at like 10% off and if I had to buy it again I wouldn't even buy it at 90% off. Some have compared this to a visual novel, so I bought it thinking it would have some choice or decisions that you had to make along the way. After I found out the only choice in the game that you get to make is how you mix drinks, I thought fine, as the implication was that how you mixed drinks would decide what route in the story would take place. It does not. They story is exactly the same no matter how you mix drinks. There is suppose to be 6 different endings, but it appears that the story stays the same, then at the very end, one of the six endings is just chosen at random. So nothing you do in the game (and the only thing you can do is mix drinks) really matters. It isn't very long story (i.e. the game is short) Has no replayability. The story and conversation in the game does not change at all, no matter how differently you try and play the game (i.e. mix drinks). The only thing the main character does is mix drinks. People have commented on the music. I didn't like any of the music. all of it sounded like techno rubbish that didn't fit the game at all. You don't get to change the music any time you want. you only get to change it at save options, which don't occur often. The only thing the main character does is mix drinks. All of the characters except maybe one, are either lesbians or bisexuals. You could say that this is a graphic novel targeted for the LGBT community. There are quite a few innuendos in the conversations, but nothing provocative or erotic that the main character gets to say or do. All she does is mix drinks. Did I mention that the only thing you get to do in the game is mix drinks? There are a few times where you get to buy stuff for your apartment, that have absolutely no effect on the game, which is exactly the same effect mixing drinks (the only other thing you get to do) has.
A lot like LOOM in that you have to play music to accomplish certain tasks or progress at certain points. Take LOOM, add a lot more color and make the tunes you learn visible in the game so that you don't have to write them down on paper or remember them. There is also an easy mode in the game where you can just press the tune you want to play and you will play it correctly, but you can also stick to the hard mode and remember all the notes and play them in the right sequence in order to progress, just like in loom. I liked this game a lot better than LOOM. It's as if this game is a remake of LOOM, with a different story of course. If the game would have been named LOOM 2, it would probably give those who have played loom a lot better idea of what the game is like. I really enjoyed this adventure.
I am not much of an adventure game fan. I like mostly RPG and strategy games. That being said, this was one I actually liked playing Pros: No silly inventory management or having to combine items as is par for the course in adventure games. No pixel hunting. When you mover your cursor over an item in a location, cursor changes to tell you it is something that you need to take or use. Cons: Could have been longer. There is only one type of puzzle in the game. This is more of a interactive story with characters that have some depth, rather than just a pixel hunt, track and backtrack until you find what you need, like with most other adventure games.
The title of my review says it all and is the reason I give one star. I can now count the number of DRM games on GOG, which is always touting itself (i.e. lying) as being a DRM free site, on one hand, possible two. The $64,000 question has been ever since the first DRM game even showed up on GOG, is WHY is there EVEN ONE DRM game here?
Not really a side scroller fan, and not much of a fan of pixelated graphics either, I actually like this game. You start and expand a kingdom by taking your kind or queen back and forth through your kingdom. Money does everything here. You get money by archers shooting wildlife and shooting enemies that come out at night. Farming also brings you some money, but it is hard to get your farmers to farm. They don't just do their job right away as soon as you give them a scythe, like your archers do when you supply them with a bow. You also get a certain amount of gold after the passage of each day, though I am still not sure how this amount is calculated. A manual would have been good here, to tell you the exact purposes of certain things in the game. There is also no way to keep track of how many archers, builders, farmers and people looking to be recruited into one of those, depending on what tool you have available for them to pick up. If buy them a hatchet, they will get it and become a builder. If you buy a bow, someone recruited will pick that up and become an archer. Same for farmer if you buy a scythe. If you have bought two or all three of these things, the inhabitant you paid will chose one. There should be some stat along the side or bottom or top of screen telling you exactly how many of each of these people you have, so that you have some idea as to which type of person you want to recruit with coin, next. As it is, all you can do is look at the screen and make a rough guess. If you have more archers than towers, but the enemy is getting right into the heart of your kingdom every night, you probably need more builders to build more towers and defensive structures. That sort of thing. The first play through will have you completely baffled as to what you should do, but it doesn't take long to figure a lot of things out. It also has that 'let's play this again, to see if I can survive more days' feel to it, so even though it can get repetitive, it is sort of addictive in short spurts. When I first started, I was doing good to survive more than a week. Now I am finding it hard to find the optimum balance between builders, archers and farmers, but am usually surviving for about 20 days, and I'm sure I'll figure out more of the kingdom's relations between the buildings, tools and different inhabitants as I play more, but a manual really would have been good to include with this one, to point some of this out. I really like this game, and if it weren't for the points mentioned above, would have been a 5 star game.
Very cool, construction and design game. Not only can you put various parts, you can resize, and reshape to a certain degree, about any part you use to construct your airplane or other vehicle. The only reason I give this game 4 instead of 5 stars is because there is almost no downloadable vehicles for the mac version, on the internet, and this was a huge selling point for me, but the almost non existence of downloads for the mac version was not mentioned in the description, so I went ahead and bought this thinking I was also gonna be able to download other vehicles. Unless such a time comes as to where someone playing the mac version can also have access to many types of downloadable vehicles, I would not pay the GOG price if I had to buy it all over again. That said, this is a great game, and the access to vehicles windows users will have should be a blast, and is probably well worth the GOG price for them.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of old games are great, despite the horrible aging, graphically speaking, but when your only objective is to just to produce some kind of garbage to sell, with no real gameplay or objective in mind, then the retro graphics just add insult to injury. Take a game about a pez candy piece, pez dispensers, add retro graphics, have it designed by a rude person who names himself after a character in the old Barney Miller tv series, and you get Pez (aka Fez in north america).
The mac version of this game is damaged. I tried twice already to download and install and both times when I try to run it, OS/X says the file has been damaged and will not let me do anything but put it in the trash. Even command open won't get it to run.
