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Awful!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Based on other reviews I had at least moderate expectations for this game. I was very disappointed. The voice acting was not good. I have played games with worse (but not many). The plot was thin but acceptable. The puzzles were generally acceptable, but often required going back again and again to old places and pixel hunt for objects that had become active since the first time (or second or third...) you were there. The worst part was that the game play CRAWLED. Many times you had to just wonder around waiting for the game to decide that enough time had elapsed for a character to finish a task and allow you to interact with them again.

Starforce

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is protected by star force. You will be unable to play this on most systems.

A COMPLETE LET DOWN

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 28 / 35
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After all the hype about how great the game was, the reality was such a disappointment. The graphics were fine, but the colors were very drab and not crisp enough to convey anything unique. The hardest thing was that I actually found myself bored halfway through the game....you have to waste your time going back and forth to places with no reason to be there just to get information to get further in the game. The characters were boring, there were tons of unuseable items that were a distraction. And after all the time you waste, the ending is the biggest let down. They should have just wrote on the final screen "thanks for your money sucker". Just like with movies that have really bad endings, I have even less appreciation and respect for games like this that stink due to the fact that you have to work harder to get to the end.

Unless you have the time to waste on this sleeper, I would save your money.

Worst Ending Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game will shock you at first when the rough looking main character speaks, because he sounds like Mr. Rogers, and is just as afraid of getting his hands dirty. Quite literally at times he'll say, "I can't do that. I'd get dirty." What is this, the Teletubbies? Also, the characters pause for huge periods of time when speaking to each other and move in a weirdly robotic slow way during cutscenes.

Finally, while much of the puzzle solving might be fun during the middle of the game, as it moves to its conclusion it rushes, stops making sense, and finally ends with the absolute worst conclusion of any game I've ever seen.

If I were you, I'd buy Runaway instead, or Conspiracies, or The Longest Journey, or Syberia, or that downloadable adventure which is excellent called Agon (go to Agongame.com).

But if you value your free time DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Sounds better then it is

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I started playing the game, it seemed to me like it was dragging on and I got bored, with the storyline. There was nothing to keep me interested in this game.

The Black Mirror

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hope I speak for others as well as myself. We are tired of having to repeat things over and over in our games before we can go forward in the game.! This really takes away the whole mood of the game.Once or twice to ask questions is enough times,anything more you have lost the mood again. There is no need to touch everything to continue on,why do you do this ? I was so disapointed after waiting so long for this game. The upside is, the special effects are wonderful,the rain and thunder are like you are there. The locations are beautiful.

Tedious and too wordy.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit right now that I didn't finish this game and that is part of the reason I regard it so poorly. The truth is that I just wasn't interested in the characters or the story. Also I think that the game is poorly designed and one point there was no way to continue. I had to get save from further on from a cheat site. Gloomy sets, morbid characters, no jokes and no female under 60. No thanks.

Waste of valuable time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This adventure game, aside from it's detailed graphics, had to be at the bottom of my list of classic adventure gaming. The dialogue was to be expected since I was familiar with The Adventure Company and Dreamcatcher, however, the story line and particularly the ending left a really bad taste in my mouth. Spend your money elsewhere. Please.

Not Up to the Usual Adventure Company Standards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not much I can add that many others haven't said, except that if you listen to all the male voices you can tell they are all done by the same person -- and rather poorly at that. The female voices and that of the young boy were also done by all the same woman actor. They must have had a very limited budget and decided to spend it all on the graphics. The graphics, overall, were fairly nice, however I think they could have spent a little more time on the "awakening from a bad dream" sequence for Samuel. It's not very realistic when compared to the rest of the game. The puzzles were rather easy, however some of the interaction did not make sense. Samuel is dumb enough to touch a live wire and get electrocuted, but has enough smarts not to touch a pipe jetting hot steam? He blows a fuse in the old mine and has a penny in his wallet, yet instead of using the penny to replace the fuse, he has to wander all over the mine looking for another switchbox so he can get a fuse? Huh. It's an "okay" game, but I expected MUCH better from The Adventure Company based on all the other games of theirs that I have played.

Poorly-designed game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so annoying you have to find hints and tips on the internet. The ones I found could equal that of a regular manuscript for a novel. Really, is this supposed to be intruiging? No matter how beautiful the graphics and interesting the storyline, I just lost interest.

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