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Breaks the mold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: July 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game definitely breaks the mold. It makes fun of a lot of conventions with it's inventory and weird locations. Elevator music in the butterfly lobby. There's even luggage. But then there's these transparent characters who seem to come in pairs and talk to each other and don't seem to know who you are. But who are they??? So strange. This is so out there. I loved this because it is so different! Excellent!

Game Would Not Save

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have two computers and I installed it on each one, after I had problems saving my game on my older computer. For some reason, I cannot save my game at all on the old nor the new computer. I have not reason to play it since I cannot save it. Anyone want to buy it from me?

Stunned

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My boyfriend and I played this game together. When we finished we sat and looked at each other with "deer-caught-in-the headlights" looks on our faces. The game comes with a walkthrough: it has to because you would never know what was going on without it. The puzzles make no sense, the story makes no sense, the ending, especially the ending MAKES NO SENSE. Then there is the horrible, want-to-poke-your-eyeball-out-with-a-spoon HUMOR. I gave this game 1 star because you can't give no stars.

Pure Adventure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well I don't know about everyone else, but I love adventure games and Forever Worlds is a new classic. There are a whole bunch of puzzles and they are all different from anything else in other games. And they aren't just boards or decorations on walls that open doors. These are very unusual situations in a crazy fantasy world. You are taken over by an ancient shaman kind of character who lives in a magic tree. He makes you take his place. Then you have to look for Doc Maitland who has been caught in a series of dream dimensions. He always looks the same but different. One time he will be in a gorilla costume. Another time he will be in a beach house with all kinds of fishing stuff and some funny references to Moby Dick. That's why you are on an epic quest here in an unknown land. That's why I think this is such a pure Adventure game.

It is actually a pretty complicated story and the ending is interesting, but I think there are a lot of subtleties that could have been explored a little deeper. But the gameplay and graphics and video scenes make up for it. The butterfly world was my favorite part. I would have liked an entire game set in that world. But all in all, I really had a good time and recommend this for the pure gamer at heart. It is also something you don't mind recommending because it has nothing to embarrass your mother in it.

Save Your Money!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the very worst adventure game I have ever played. SAVE YOUR MONEY! For starters, it does not work on windows 98 unless you run media player first each and everytime. (It took me 5 days to find out how to get it working on my system, no help from the company web site) Second, it is just plain STUPID! The jokes on the game and the free walkthrough are so stupid I had to keep forcing myself to come back and continue to play. The only reason I continued was beacuse I had $20.00 and alot of time wrapped up in this game. If someone offers to give this game to you for free, save yourself the frustration and just refuse the offer. BAD BAD BAD

BIG Disappointment!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As I began this game I was not surprised to find how awful it was. There are several reasons why I did not like this game:
::The Quality::
I did not expect the quality in this game to measure up to the quality of some of the masterpieces I have played recently (Syberia, The Longest Journey). When I saw the box the pictures on it were slightly better then I had expected. When I started up the game I could not believe how bad the pictures were. It was slightly blurry. You could see the pixels that made up the picture. It was so bad that I almost turned off the game right there.
::The Movement::
This game was point and click except there is a scroll. I read reviews about how the scrolling made the people playing it dizzy before I bought the game. I ignored those reviews figuring the people who wrote those were wimps. DO NOT IGNORE THESE REVEIWS!! This game literally made me nauseous. But if you are a fan of extremely wild rollercoasters you might enjoy the scroll feature.
::The Characters::
In the first clip at the beginning of the game one of the characters sounded like she was reading her lines off of a piece of paper. Well, obviously the actress is reading off of a piece of paper but it is her job to make us feel that she isn't reading off of a script. This might just bother me because acting is a hobby of mine, and won't annoy anyone else.

I found these 3 problems in the 5 minutes that I played this game. I'm sure that if I played for longer I could many more things to criticize. The one thing I liked was the story. It seemed somewhat interesting.
In short, just buy Syberia, Syberia II, and/or The Longest Journey instead of Forever Worlds. They are amazing games. They're truly magnificent.
-Erin

very disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of trouble playing this game. Each time after playing for 30 minutes or so, the game would freeze, I would have to restart my computer, and thus lost the play. This was extremely frustrating. But this was not the only glitch. Sometimes the view spun out of control, so I couldn't complete the puzzles and had to restart. Lots of problems there. But apart from that, although the scenes were lovely, the story lacked continuity, the puzzles were not entertaining, and the challenges were either too simple or too hard. I would not recommend this game. I agree with others, buy Siberia I & II, or The Longest Journey. These are far superior to Forever Worlds

Surprises and makes you feel good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not a hard game, but when you think something is going to be easy it may surprise you. So do the punchlines. I kept getting surprised when characters would say something funny when I wasn't expecting it. It is deceptive. There is a lot more going on here than you think at first. The canoe ride really caught me for a while, but thank goodness there is a strategy guide included. I found I needed it. But then once I read it I realized I probably could have figured it out if I had taken a little more time. That is really where the fun is. Give yourself a little more chance. You will be rewarded. It starts to look more challenging and then you figure it out and that makes it a lot more rewarding. This game made me feel good when I solved something. That's when you see some great animations to let you know you did it. I especially liked the giant condor bird and the butterflies. They were not like any other game I have ever played.

It's been too long since it was fun to play . . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After many years of playing adventure games, I have been getting increasingly reluctant to try new ones because they are getting harder and harder to tell them apart. But Forever Worlds reminds me of the old games that were fun and kind of whacky where you never know what is going to happen next. I love the element of surprise and nonsense where a pair of magic sandals can send a huge boulder off dancing into the jungle. It made me laugh. Other games just seem soooo serious.

I also had no problems with loading or running the game which was a break, thankyou. It has an unusual interface where you can turn around and look anywhere even while you are playing or interacting with things. This is really solid for a change. Even when I had launched a puzzle but didn't have the right item to put there, I could go away to find it and then come back and then place it and launch it again and it worked!

But the fact that I had a good time is why I wanted to say something. The worlds you visit are very different from other games out there and the video scenes and characters are beautiful too. I especially liked the giant bee. I wish there was more of that one. Actually, I wish there was just more. I guess I will just have to go back and play it again : )

A Frustrating Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a very frustrating game. I have a good computer system and have never had the difficulties I encountered playing this game, i.e., very "jerky" maneuvering movements; highly sensitive Navigation Cursor in that you go to another area without wanting to and have to return; "Saved Games" not loading at times; having to reboot due to freezing or blacking out of the scene.

This could be a fun game as the concept and some of the characters are good, particularly the lizards but the frustration is not worth it.

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