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Lotus Spring is Lame!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 24
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you like playing games like Myst or Riven, you'll be bored to tears by Lotus Spring. It only gets one star because the buildings are pretty, and I laud the attempt to make a computer game appealing especially to women. But women who like to play computer games deserve much more than Lotus Spring. The story could have been acceptable -- except we're told in the beginning it ends tragically. So what's the point of solving the truly mindless puzzles and reading bad copy (and worse poetry) in Lotus Spring's Diary that must have been written by a non-native English speaker? There are women gamers out here who enjoy playing intelligent, challenging games that aren't fueled exclusively by testosterone-induced blood lust. If you're one of us, don't buy Lotus Spring--instead go to an online aution site and look for a (now out of print) copy of Obsidian.

Amazingly dull

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: August 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you have a heart condition or a nerve disorder and your doctor has recommended a life without stress, excitement, or even passing interest, put "Lotus Spring" on your shopping list. This is without doubt the single most tedious title since "Alphabetizing For Dummies." Game play consists of moving around gorgeous but static locations and randomly triggering non sequitur poetry. Ohhhh my. Be still, my foolish heart.

If you have a Mac--don't buy Legend of Lotus Spring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In order to open this game a Mac user has to disable QuickTime and the instructions for doing so are inconsistant and confusing. In my case once I did this and then installed the game's version of QuickTime-my computer failed and I had to clean sweep my computer and then try to restore all my files. Now, I suspect any game that has to disable software in order to play it. P.S. Amazon kindly replaced the CD once and neither the original or the replacement would play. I don't know about PC use but for a Mac. I would avoid this game at all costs. P.S. The instructions are not in the manual that comes with the CD. I had to E-mail Dreamcatcher Games and that's when the confusion began. Avoid this game and for me. I avoid anything by Dreamcatcher games.

sorely disapointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am like most of the women here. I was excited that they were making a game for us.I get the game and you play as a man?! What's up with that. If you can call it play. Mostly the only value is learning about another culture. I was happy I found it on sale for only ... dollars. I was only cheated out of ... bucks, a pregame excitement and some time.

save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Lotus Spring has beautiful graphics. The End. The story is vague. Moving through the game is frustrating. The icon selector is "just tooooo cute for words" as well as annoying. If you have played even one other computer game, Lotus Spring will wean you from ever playing another.

Lame and Silly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If all you like in a computer game is pretty scenery, then go for it. But if you're in it for the game, stay away.

I got this game for free from the manufacturer, or I wouldn't have bothered with it in the first place. I am very suspicious of any entertainment that's marketed to women, as it is often patronizing. I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised here and was not.

Yes, the garden is pretty and there are interesting things to look at in the many buildings. But this is mindless entertainment. First of all, where is the plot? The purpose of the game is to unravel the story you are told in the introduction, but to achieve that all you have to do is explore a museum-like world and passively watch from afar as a romance is played out from beginning to end in short cinematics. I wouldn't call that adventure, much less a game.

It seems that to appeal to women, the designers are trying to create a game that focuses more on character relationships than on plot. But this game lacks both. The most successful adventure games combine great characters, intricate plots (and subplots) and at least a hint of danger.

If you are looking for adventure games that are non-violent, or at least low on violence, here are some suggestions: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Dust, Amber: Journeys Beyond, Beyond Atlantis, The Longest Journey.

A Stinky Flower

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Game produced to appeal to a specific audience - namely teenage girls with nothing better to do with their time. That is fine, and may be benificial as the monotany may force them outside, away from their monitors.

Repetitious and tedious. Buy if watching grass grow adds excitement to your life.

Despicable.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A dull game that consists mainly of meandering. Puzzles are simplistic, yet unintuitive. Rewards consist of cut scenes featuring a courtship. The game is strongly targeted to women. To the extent that women are maudlin simpletons, it should appeal to them. For my part, I found it a bit insulting.

Boring & Insulting to It's Targeted Demographic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The genius developers that produced this train wreck invested a lot of time and money in the myth that women don't play computer games. Their solution? Create a game that is the technological equivalent of a picture book - lots of pretty shiny things to look at and none of the challenges that real gamers - men - like. Oh, and it also helps to turn the cursor into an adorable naked baby.

Every time you move the mouse around, the baby turns to show the direction you are going...and to remind you of what the developers think your real purpose in life is.

Navigating the game is annoyingly non-intuitive, for a game that is supposed to appeal to beginners (i.e., women). The chubby baby turns you left, right, forward, and back...and each way you turn the scene changes so much that you can't really tell where you are. You can only move several steps at a time, so you can't explore your surroundings fully.

Challenge is non-existent in this game. The puzzles aren't really puzzles, but more like toys you can play with.

The characters in the game appear occasionally in flashback scenes that are flat and uninspiring. Their interaction includes no dialogue, as I recall.

As for the story, there really is none. You are entering this garden long after the romance between the two characters has ended. There is nothing to achieve, nothing to win, no obstacles to overcome, no puzzles to solve, no real story to unravel. Nothing.

Absolutely the only good thing about this game is that the design of the garden is beautiful, but the graphics are so simple and unsophisticated by today's standards that you wonder if this game is for very young children...until you look at the box again and read that it is indeed supposed to appeal to you, an adult woman.

Plodding and static!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One of the single most boring games I have ever run across -- couldn't hold my attention for half an hour. Gameplay consists of moving around an almost silent, unoccupied, uninteresting Celestial Palace, making tea pour and flowers bloom. Characters are static, story is dull, puzzles are monotonous. For the faint of heart and the extremely patient only.

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