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It requires a lot of attention to details to advance and therefore it is a slow paced game. It reminded me of the game "Myst". It is over my head, I am not a sleuth.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The game itself - it's very well designed. You get the hang of the interface fairly quickly. For the most part, the puzzles are both creative and reasonable. Some, however, are very unintuitive and require finding very obscure, hidden objects, or using an object in a manner you'd never think of. Some puzzles require you to have visited an area that you might not even have known about. Don't be afraid to take a peek at uhs-hints.com if despite your most diligent reasoning you cannot come up with a solution. The environments are on the whole quite pleasant, with the exception of one - the jungle. Every node you can walk to looks just like every other one and you must therefore navigate by trial and error. A minus of this game is that there is no character interaction at all - in fact, there are no characters except in cut scenes. Characters added new dimensions and intrigue to games like Legacy of Time and Myst III as well as many others. Here you walk through "abandoned" worlds. Similarly, there is virtually no storyline development as you play the game - you have a vague idea of a mission (to find out how to bring down the bad guy) and that's what you do through the entire game. On the whole, however, the gameplay experience can be quite pleasant, if you peek at some hints when you're stuck.Read full review
Sorry, I didn't like this game. I got about a quarter of the way through and found I had to go through a port hole only the key had not reappared in my tool ket the last time I used it, therefore I was unable to go any farther in the game. I know this because I looked up the walkthrough (I use www.GameBoomers.com) and found out I needed the key. The graphis were good only it was so dark somtimes you couldn't see a thing. The music is enough to drive you up a tree. The story plot was the same old thing, bad guy wants to distroy the would, why I'll never know. Don't wast your money unless you can get it very cheap.
Only reason I bought it was to finish it. Had it several years before but lost the blasted thing. Not nearly as vague as the MYST series but could have used a little more challenging puzzles to it. Old but fairly decent.
Even though it is a 95 the game has the game play and visual eyecandy to rival some of the more modern CG games. It is definately comparable to the Myst games and you don't need to have a huge video card either. Love it.
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