The one positive thing I can say about this trainwreck is that the 3D rendered artwork is very well done - both the static backgrounds and the cutscenes. Some of the logic puzzles are ok but the game is just needless noise around them. Beyond that, this is a total write-off. The story, most of the puzzles, the "AI"... I don't even know where to start. Most scenes are just static images with well under 10 hotspots. Once you click something, you better remember what was said because it's gone. The UI is atrocious. Several puzzles require you to remember information you may have read days before since there's no way to replay conversations or re-enable former hotspots. Most interactions are basically trial-and-error until you happen on the right order of clicking things on the screen. I couldn't even get myself to play it all the way through - I'm just happy that it's off my computer. I would avoid this at all cost - I wish I could get my time back.
(I got this on Steam but decided to also post my review here.) Visuals are nice, the music is passable. Voice acting is downright annoying and the dialog just goes on and on and on and on.... I like long dialogue in games (and adventure games are all about story and dialogue) but this one is just an incoherent, illogical, mind-numbing. non-sensical mess. You'll hear the same repeated lines over and over and try to complete utterly illogical, pointless puzzles to advance the game. You'll then grind and grind some more, pixel-hunting for the one object that you must click or the one object that you must use with something to continue. And the ending... the ending takes the cake - I've never seen such a letdown in an adventure game; the ending was bad even in the context of this game, which is saying a lot, because the game is already awful. Some reviews mentioned that this is a children's game but that's not correct: no child in their right mind would suffer through this mess of a game. They may get wooed by the nice visuals but 5 minutes into the game they'd give up in utter boredom. Only an adult who paid money for this would try to finish this game, trying to see if there's some sort of sense to it and trying to see if there's something to be gained for the money paid. There's nothing, as is the case with most Daedalic games. I should've learned this from their earlier games but from now on I'll avoid anything this incompetent bunch dumps on the markets and I advise you, reader, to do the same. You'll save your money and you'll use your time for better things.
Not recommended. Poor story with terrible timed events - this game was designed to kill the player as many times as possible to force paying another quarter to continue. The play experience is terrible, the game is just trial and error. No reasonable person should be subjected to this sort of garbage. Avoid this like the plague.
