Okay what kind of fraud is going on here? How can a game with a 1 star review, and that being the ONLY review, get a 4 and a half star rating???
The sensibleness and logic of Blackwell Bundle combined with the visual appeal and humor of Whispered World. The Book Of Unwritten Tales is one of the best games in the adventure genere that has come along in a long time. Forget the Deadelic adventures everyone raves about, this one surpasses even those. Pros: * Logical. Puzzles actually make sense * No useless items. Every item you can pick up will eventually be used for something * Can save the game at any point * No constant backtracking for items or to solve puzzle. Has some of that, but not to the ridiculous, and tedious point that a lot of adventure games do. * Game divided up into stages or chapter, of were you have only certain locations to explore and not one overall huge area that you have to makes dozens of guesses at before you eventually choose the one you need to be at. Cons: * This is not really a negative and it makes the game more challenging, but some might find that having to talk to a character about the same thing more than once a bit of tedium. Sometimes you will talk to a character, then at a certain point int the game, you talk to them again about the same subject to get what you need, because something between the first time you talked about a subject and the last time you talk about the same subject will have changed. I rate this a five star game, and that says a lot coming from someone who really isn't that much of an adventure game fan.
A very good adventure game. Each game/episode is short, but the bundle includes 4 blackwell games. It was a good deal when I bought it, but I believe that was when it was like $5.99 for the bundle, not on sale. I won't swear to that, it's been a long time ago that I bought it, but I know it wasn't $15 like it is now. I am just now reviewing it because I just now played the last episode of this bundle, Blackwell Deception. Pros: * Very clue intensive detective adventure * Places and things disappear as you no longer need them, so this eliminates a lot of unecessary backtracking that are in a lot of typical adventure games. * Control of 2 characters, and control of each work together to solve a lot of the puzzles and tasks. Cons: * Very linear, not only with the ending result of each episode, but also with what you can do and in what order you can do them, so not really any replay value. * Steep rise in price from the original GOG asking price. Took off one star from what would have been a 5 star rating because of the cons listed above.
I agree with manitario, the mac version crashes a lot. Other than that, I like how GSB 2 lets you design how your spaceships look. The customization of modules is pretty much the same as GSB 1. The visualzation of your ships also lets you add light to areas of your ships you want highlighted. Now that GSB lets you customize the visual of your ships, it would be nice if the the GSB (GSB 3) will also let you display the ships in perspective or 3D views instead of just the top down bird's eye view, as it would be nice to tell how high a fin is, or how many levels beneath the ship another ship part is, etc. Would be a 5 star but taking one off for the crashing issues.
Looks like I am going to be the only one so far that won't be giving GOG's version of Albion a 5 star review. I remember playing this back in the day and spent lot of time. It is indeed one of the most very charming, and refreshing, and different in a lot of ways, rpgs. I used to still have the Albion CD and instruction manual until a couple years ago, and was joyed when I seen this come to GOG. But alas, after reading the system requirements and gleefully buying this gem from GOG, I was quickly disappointed. First of all, this is just another DOSbox version. 2nd, at first I kept getting messages with the 64bit compatibility issue, saying that this game was not compatible under the 64bit Windows 8, even with adjusted compatibility settings and everything. Somehow, I got past that and don't ask me how. I am not quite sure myself, and am afraid if I ever have to resinstall this again, I won't be able to get it to run under 64bit. System requirements under GOG do not state that this is not compatible with windows 64bit. Second, now that I got this thing running, there still seems to be some very annoying mouse sensativity issues, and it is very cumbersome to use the mouse with this game, and it does not come with a pdf manual of any kind, so don't know if there are any hot keys I can use instead of the mouse, in a lot of areas where this would be very helpful. The original, authentic version of Albion, could it be played on any of today's systems, without the need to modify the game itself or modify your system settings to the point of making it almost unplayable just to get it to run, would definately be worth a 5 star review. GOG's version, however, I feel I must deduct a couple of stars for reasons listed above.
Warning. Mac version does not work. As soon as the title screen appears, there is no control support. Mouse, keyboard or joystick simply do not work. I have Mac Pro running OS/X maverick.
Not as advertised. I am not getting the 1987, 1988, 1989 or 1999 versions of this game like is displayed in the trailers on GOG. When I choose retro in the game the settings, it just takes the current version and displays it at a much lower resolution. that's it. +1 DLC is written at the top of the game in my library also, but I see any DLC in the game contents, in my library. If there is a DLC or a way to play the earlier versions, I sure don't see it, and nowhere in the game is any of this explained either, so I have to assume you just don't get what you are led to believe you will get. So I have to give this a 1 star, for misleading advertising and apparently not getting all the files that this was suppose to have included.
Don't get this game. Even though it now come on gog with the 2.xx patch, it still is very buggy. My system meets all the system requirements and it still doensn't get past the opening. I get to where it shows that the controls for movement are ASDW, and then it freezes. I have been buying from gog for more than a couple years and have bought over 220 games from them so far. Mostly because only place to get DRM free games anymore. Out of all that time, I have never once asked for a refund, even thought I have had a few other buggy or incompatible programs from Gog. I know it policy for software sellers to not give refunds in all but a few cases, but Gog states that they will, and when I do ask for a refund for the first time ever, I get put through the hassle of me having to prove to them that the game doesn't work. Gog must surely know that that is almost impossible most of the time. I also got this on sale for $3.99, so rather than just refund a very loyal customer, who has patronized them for years and has never once asked for a refund before, they would rather keep their measly $4 and anger a very good customer. Go figure. Will probably only buy from Gog now if I can't get what I am looking for DRM free, elsewhere. It's not like Gog is even a bargain anymore. I remember when I became a Gog member, software was either $2.99 or $4.99 and that was it! Now the games anymore aren't any more reasonable priced than at other places, and the DRM free aspect is the the only thing Gog has going for them anymore. Anyway, don't get Consortium until the developers full resolve all the bugs or come up with a decent patch at least.
One of my favorite Amiga games back when I had an Amiga 2000. As others have said, THIS is how a remake should be made. This is one where you got your enhanced graphics and audio, but WITHOUT changing the original game mechanics, or UI, and not taking anything out of the original version either. Save procedure, there is only an auto save, or save only when you quit option. I don't remember if this is exactly how it was on the Amiga version, but it would be nice to save when you wanted. The autosave also doesn't save every mission. If you get killed and pick to continue from your last autosave, it seems to send you back about the last 3 missions you played before you were just killed. Only way I have found to pick up were you want to leave off is to quit the game, then run it again, but as someone else pointed out, it's a small hassle to just want to save your current progress. There's also been quite a hub bub about the audio voice over the text dialogue, which I don't think the Amiga version had, but not EVERYTHING in the remastered is voiced over. When I get to Farrah's dialogue, there isn't any voice over in those sections, just the text dialogue. Remastered version does allow you to chose whether you want to have voice over or not, it just doesn't have option to play in the original graphics. You just have to put up with the enhanced graphics. =D Default resolution is 640 x 480, which again is nice if you want to be nostalgic about that also. It was at that resolution when I first played this version, but the video option in the options menu allows you to change this. It goes up to 2560 x 1600 Despite the save annoyance, no voice for Farrah, and that you can't go back in time completely with the graphics in the remastered version, I still rate this 5 stars. I hardly rate anything 5 stars, especially remakes. It is still such an enjoyable game and the 2 or 3 'coulda / shoulda's' of this game do not take away from that.
I so wanted to like this game, being of the furry genere and all, but I can only give this one star simply because the mac port of this game on GOG simply just does not work. When you go to run the game, it asks you to insert the Inherit the Earth CD. Being that I got this on GOG, there is no freakin CD. What gives?
