It's only 4 hours even taking it really slow and leaving it running while you do other stuff. The puzzles are terrible. A few require trial and error with really slow animations. None make you think. Many characters take forever to get through an animation everytime you talk to them. There is no run animation, though you can warp to exits by double clicking. It feels like a game they knew was nothing and tried to pad it out by making it too slow to do anything. Really weak overall. There are a few cute jokes and references to other games, but that's about it. Really weak story with no story hooks. I did like that you could change your outfit anytime though. Overall, don't bother, even on sale.
Even coming in at the end, it's def of it's era. A little too easy, relying wholly on inventory puzzles. But it has a fun, silly adventure story. Nothing that bad, nor great. It stands above a lot of it's time, but it's a poor substitue for the older Broken Sword games.
You will indeed have puzzles you solve by combining nonsense in your inventory and rubbing it on things. This is way more obvious than 1. You do have a lot of locations and a fun story though. I will say the puzzles get better as the game goes on. Really the guy character has the worst of it for puzzles.
You don't have the nonsense of 2's puzzle, but the second half of the game is clearly out of budget and it rushes by with large gaps you can fill in easily enough. What's here isn't bad, it's just half a game at most.
You really don't make any decisions. The game even combines things for you when you select where they go. It ends up opening up to a bunch of fetch quests in the fourth chapter, but you don't really decide much again. The real value is that it looks amazing with a stop-motion style. The story is kind of just there. I'd be interested to see what they do next though. I'd also recommend changing the voices to German just because it fits the main character so much better (he's American, but the voice actor fits the look).
If you've played re4, you've run into more interesting inventory problems than this game provides. It's a fun little time waster worth $2 though. It's a no-stakes version that you can play while listening to a podcast or whatever. Don't expect there to be any interesting twists or for it to get significantly more difficult than when it started.
I have it on steam. It's a really fun game.
A really fun adventure. Nothing gets too hards, but it requires thinking about it.
This game is great. I love the prevailing winds system, something almost all other games miss with sailing. The combat is a quick and clever dice system. Only issue is the load times seem a tad long and the weather effect card in combat doesn't really need to be shown in the middle to pause things. But those are minor issues.
