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If you must buy this, wait for a sale

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was horrible! After I finished it, I was left feeling so let down. The characters annoyed me, the way they moved and how much interaction was required--and constantly having to choose the dialogue was more a pain than fun. The "plot" was stupid and boring. The packaging of this game is brilliant, as I was so excited to play this from how it looked on the package. But it was truly one of the (if not THE) worst games I have played to date.

Not so great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game may have suffered b/c of its budget. It was very short (Which is characteristics of games from developer Microid), and there are many bugs in the game. The game designers try to incorporate non-linear gaming by allowing multiple paths to go through a certain part of the game. However, as a result, you may get stuck at a part of the game without any possibility to advance but to reload a saved game. Sometimes dialogues will be about things that you haven't discovered yet, so that leaves you confused about the story.

The story was underdeveloped. The main character has psychic abilities, but that wasn't utilized too much in the game. Also, the inventory system is pretty bad. You have to scroll through a horizontal bar to choose an item; that gets annoying when you have like 50 items with you. The graphics also didn't look too great on my computer, but then again my video card was outdated, so that could be why.

Fun while it lasted

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't have much to add, but I do wish to remind you that, if you're sqeamish, you may not like this game. Once you get past a few shocking images, it is really just very nice to look at. I was pleased by the almost 360-degree viewpoint, smooth character movement and very realistic surroundings. The 1920's Paris setting lends itself well to rich details, especially in the wallpaper and furnishings.
I also liked the spookiness and the period music, but--as other reviewers have mentioned, it's sometimes frustrating to have to listen to dialogue over and over (I prefer to turn off the subtitles, by the way) and I often found myself returning to the same location many times just to see if I had missed anything.
Along the way, there are, of course, puzzles one must solve. I had help and once I unlocked each location, there was always an interesting little movie to watch. One annoying little thing was that I had trouble saving it, so I figured out that it was best make twos saves at the same point, just to be safe.
The ending--the epilogue, really--made me say, "Wha...?" but I still had fun and it didn't take me weeks to get through like 7th Guest or 11th Hour.

post mortem

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Save your money, (even if it goes on sale) this is the worst game I have ever played. If you want to play a fun game play Longest Journey or Syberia or Dark Fall, Post Mortem is the most boring game ever and the music was lousy, interaction was awful, and the characters have no personality. The puzzles are almost non-existant. Sorry, but I wasted my money so save yours.

Great But Short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was pretty good....the graphics and music really set the mood. I enjoyed everything from start to finish. My only complaint is that i finished it really fast....in about 2 days. I do admit to looking on the net for help on the book puzzle and the alchamey puzzle (after working on them for what seemed like forever)....but other than that the puzzles were rather easy from my perspective. It's a fun game....may want to wait to buy it used though!

A Little Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played this game right after Syberia which I think was part of the problem. Syberia I and II are so visually stimulating and flows into an enjoyable plot. Post Mortem was too dark, the graphics were not nearly as good as expected and the characters actions became annoying (arm and hand movements when they spoke). Granted it was creepy and kept me curious enough to keep going.I did, however, enjoy the ending.

Good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game, but there has to be some middle line for these adventure games. Some have no character interaction and are all puzzles, and some have to much dialog which is the problem with this one. Dialog changes as you go, so you can have different endings which is a neat idea. And the characters are interesting, but you spend to much time talking.
Other than that it is a good game.

I enjoy this game, but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You can easily get sucked into this game for hours, but dont immediatley go out and buy this game just because i said that. The game has close to NO DEPTH. You barely ever really have to think hard about what you are doing. Mostly you go somewhere and interrogate someone, then they give you something which forces you to go somewhere else and talk to someone else. follow me? Going places is easy, you dont walk around town, immidiatly when you leave somewhere you are shown a map. You can click on an area on the map and you go there. So if you want a game that wont get you stuck up and stumped in thinking, get this game.

Fantastic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought the game few hours ago, and I can't stop playing it! It's fantastic. It has beautiful graphics, very good sounds (you'll love the music), voices are fantastic (I mean in the polish version :)). The game's got great climat... fantastic. But there's one bad thing... loading time!! It takes ages to do something. You want to view the map? Wait 15 secs. You want to go to other place on the map? Wait a minute! Horrible! But the game's worth waiting. Can't wait to finish it :)

OK story, killed by canned dialogs.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was captivated by that game for a couple hours when I started playing, then I merely played it because as an adventure games fan, I had to finish it, and at least see the end.

The atmosphere is pretty good, and the story is OK (If you're not sick of games involving the Templars). If it weren't for the canned, unskippable dialogs, I would have given this game 3 stars.

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