The graphics suck on two levels: * Quality of the supposedly 3D figures and movements is below standard, especially for 2005, when people already knew long before how to do much better. The models are ridiculously made and move jerkily. * The faces are an obvious nod to anime, especially the huge "I'm sitting on a crapper right now" eyes. Ugliness galore. Also, it is very irritating to have the screen go black every half minute within the same cut-scene. Also, the tutorial hints are wrong - for instance, they said press space for blocking, but space brings up some weird context menu.
It was a good game, but well nigh impossible to solve without a walkthru. Some of the things were honestly ridiculous. Still, it's LucasArts. And now that GoG is into LucsArts, may we humbly expect DotT and both Indiana Joneses? Especially Atlantis?
Ok-ish, but Risen 1 was way better. I find the whole voodoo thing irritating and unnecessary, the original 'mage' magic was way cooler. The minigames are OK, though the bug that allows to earn inf. money is kinda laughable. On the other hand, one needs so much gold to advance, that without this bug it would be nigh impossible. In short, OK, but not well-balanced.
One of the best medieval FPS/RPG I've ever played, and I've been playing since 1990s. Realistic enough but not tedious, stringently not power-playable (a pack of wolves is a challenge even to a mid-high level player, for example), open-world but not to the point of actual frustration "what do I do now", etc.
Enjoyable for a while, but the mazes/puzzles are too hard to play it, unless you really invest time and thought in it. Comparing to, for e.g., Ultima Underworld 2, it's not even a 3 out of 10, with UU2 being 10.
Reasonably beautiful, but not breathtakingly so. Extremely boring. Breathtakingly so. Similar to some of the missions in Warcraft 3, except that was interesting because it had a plot. This is... click-click-click, killmonsterstakeitems. A 12-year-old might be interested. Or not.
Funny enough, but not up to the standards of Simon the Sorcerer, DoTT or Monkey Island. POS: Simple enough interface, good jokes, riddles tough enough but not too tough. NEG: *very* primitive animations, uncomfortable UI/GUI for switching characters *extremely* primitive (as in: lacking) animation and inventiveness in regards to objects, inventory, etc. All in all: meh... you could have done so much better with a little more effort, guys.
It's takes a few ideas from MoM and from HMM series, makes a brownish kinda mix out of that all, adds complication and counterintuitive menus... Graphics are OK but not stunning. The total is worth... I dunno... five dollars? six on a good day? But certainly not 20.
