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Just A Warning before you buy!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: March 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have not been able to play this game yet. It would have been nice to know that you need a video card that supports TnL before I bought it. Costing I found around 100.00 bucks. So now I have to wait till I can afford it. The company should have written somewhere that you need this, because I read the box, and the requirements before hand, and it said nothing about needing this video card. Now I am stuck with a game I can't play right away.....thanks alot!!

Mysterious Dud!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: September 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have never written a review before but this game is so bad that I wanted to warn people! I am a college graduate and have played a great many adventure games. If you are not a math and game playing geek, I suggest you read the cheat sheets at Gameboomers. Com to see what you will be getting yourself into before you invest anything in Mysterious Journey 2. The puzzles are continuous and so convoluted that you will spend hours and hours doing nothing but trial and error. There is nothing clever or original about any puzzle in this game. The good graphics are wasted. The characters are at best stupid and the story line is mediocre. By the way, if you do not understand base numbers, you probably will not understand even the cheat sheet. If you loved Syberia, than you will be very disapointed with this dud.

It's a RIPOFF!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: October 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a ripoff of the MYST games. From the MYSTerious to just the overall game, you're much better getting the phenomenal MYST games. Honestly, don't spend your money on something that's only a small fraction equal to the beauty of MYST, Riven, Exile (well, MYST and Riven beat Exile...), or Uru.

They Didn't Learn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Regarding the puzzles in this game, apparently, the publisher didn't learn. This is a set of impossibly hard, arbitrary puzzles masquerading as an adventure game. Basically, read the lowest rated reviews here for the earlier game, Schizm, and you'll see what this game is like.

WASTE OF MONEY W/ NO SUPPORT FROM MANUFACTURER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had so much fun with this game in the first "chapter" but when I reached the second "chapter", on the island, the game came to almost a complete stop. I have a fast computer with tons of memory and have never had any problems with any kind of game before this. I contacted the e-mail address that the website referred me to and I received NO response back. So here I just spent a lot of money for a new game and it won't work and they won't help. Too bad. It had promise. AVOID THIS GAME.

Ahhhh! Not again!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I recently played another game that had the same problem as this game did on my computer. You have to have a specific graphics program to run it. I have a Dell with a Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV graphics card which works well with most things. MJ II needs something called a TnL(?) compatible card to work. As a result, I have people coming out of doors and THEN the door opens, after which the people are back on the other side of the door. Or, people leave a room, and then the dialogue section where they are IN the room plays. That part doesn't really bother me that much because the story line is pretty much boring and doesn't make too much difference to the players quest through the puzzles. Actually, there doesn't seem to be much relationship between what the characters say and what the players do. For instance, at one point, the player is taken to meet the leaders of a group and after a discussion, the leader says, "_______" (can't remember the name) "will take you to your quarters." Then, they all disappear. No one has shown you anywhere. You are exactly where you were and your quarters don't really exist in the game. The other thing I don't like about this game is that if you aren't a real math buff, you won't be able to figure out some of the puzzles without looking at the hints. Really, guys! How many people out there know to count in base 4 or base 12? With what reference were they directed to do so? I played Syberia and loved it. Boy, is this one a disappointment! And to think I wasted good money on it! Bah!

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After Schizm 1 I had high hopes for this game. Too bad. In my opinion, it just isn't as good. I am very disappointed.

Why? The puzzles. The story. The graphics. I could go on, but I'd just be ranting and this isn't the place for it. I just didn't like it.

Horrible!!!! Bad puzzles, doesn't make sense, really uninteresting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just don't see how anyone could like this game. The puzzles make little sense, and the game just didn't interest me at all.

It starts off in an ugly, dark spaceship, and by the time I FINALLY got out of that level I was VERY ready to move on. But instead of taking me to a level with something interesting to look at and interact with (which is the ENTIRE reason I bought the game, for the beautiful backdrops), it plops me into another uninteresting level with a bunch of weird pods and laser lights.

The game never gave me any clue as to what I was doing or more importantly WHY I was doing it. I had no interest in any of the EXTREMELY difficult puzzles, and I ended up just wanting to get the heck out of the game,

I read one reviewer's comment (who was a mathematician), and he said some of the puzzles were even difficult for him!

I will never buy any more Mysterious Journey games. They just aren't worth it.

Uh, Barf!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just installed this game and played it for 5 minutes and I literally want to throw up. The graphics are awesome and the game looks like it would be really fun, if it weren't for the 1st person navigation system. This full 360 degree viewing is totally gross. it's like you are inside a sphere, and when you move the mouse the sphere rolls the screen around, so every single thing you want to look at requires the entire screen to move, at a disgusting rate. i slowed the mouse movement down as far as it would go but it was still like i was on a rollercoaster. Have you ever seen clockwork orange? you know how they forcefeed the guy images to cure him and he freaks out, well that's how i felt after 5 seconds of game play. 15 minutes later now, and i still have motion sickness. give me still images please!!

This game has bugs and no support from The Adventure Company

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

On 2 different computers of mine, this game has "mysteriously" uninstalled itself so many times that I have just finally gave up. Any game this unstable is not going to be a part of my collection. I have played the game and then went back to play it again and the shortcut is gone along with the exe file and everything else. No other game has ever done this to me before. There are also no patches for this game at all. And all The Aventure Company has on their website is the usual b.s. of "make sure the cd is clean, make sure you have the latest drivers, shut down all programs before, etc...." It's too bad. This game had potential but be forewarned of the complete lack of support and bugs before buying it.

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