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Nibiru

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game because it has beautiful/amazing graphics, and you don't have to run around slaughtering anybody or chopping heads (I don't like bloody games). This game is very relaxing, it's like watching a movie and also participating. This is definitely not an action game, it's more like Nancy Drew. The ending was a little disappointing but I had a great time playing, and I am happy to have this game.

A Very Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ni.bi.ru is a very good puzzle/mystery game. The story is addicting, the graphic beautiful and the voice of the characters are great! Perfect of me, since I like learning English! (My frist language is French, that why... But I like improving my English's skills!)

Easy and Beautiful

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 24 / 24
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Martin Holan is a young archaeologist working at a rather boring research project when his uncle, also an archaeologist, calls to tell him of an interesting discovery. Roadworkers in Prague have unearthed a WWII-era bunker. Its contents have interesting implications for uncle's lifelong work. Will Martin go check it out?

NiBiRu is a lovely point and click game from the people who brought us Black Mirror and it shares many of that game's strong points while having overcome some of the glitches. The sound and graphics are beautiful, of course. The voice acting is quite good. The many characters have a variety of accents --appropriate, as Martin is the only American in the game-- and they are all quite understandable and realistic. Incidental music only appears from time to time, but is low-key and interesting enough not to be annoying. And other F/X, such as storms, traffic sounds and the like, give fullness to the gaming experience. Pre-rendered locations are nicely detailed, although there is less animation than in Black Mirror. Characters are believable, rather than super-real. Movement is somewhat limited, but what there is works.

Puzzle-wise, NiBiRu is extremely easy. Most of the puzzles are inventory-type, with only about half a dozen discrete mechanical puzzles thrown in. Of the latter, only one was at all difficult, and that one was VERY difficult; I worked at it for probably six hours over the course of three days before giving up and consulting a walkthrough for the answer. There was one other sticky place with an unlikely solution that you pretty much had to stumble on by chance, as Martin gave no clue what he was thinking. There were a couple very easy timed puzzles (I got through them without a problem on the first try) and one place you could die (I only found one, anyway). However, at that point if you died, the game automatically reloaded right at the beginning of the sequence, without playing any annoying "consequences of failure" sequence. So you could try over and over again without too much frustration.

There are a couple things to keep in mind while playing this game. First, as in Black Mirror, you have to right-click as well as left click on every hotspot, as well as every item in your inventory, as this might reveal more information. Some people have a very hard time keeping track of this; it didn't bother me. On extremely rare occasions, you can't pick up inventory until you know what you need it for (or at least have visited the location where you need it). On the other hand, there are several tasks you CAN do without the faintest idea why you're doing them, before you have all the necessary parts. This can lead to a lot of wandering around and head-scratching. You can't replay or revisit dialog, but I didn't see any reason why you would have to. I liked that the dialog took care of itself; that is, once you clicked on a topic your characters just conversed about it until they were done, without your having to click on interminable conversation trees. I also liked that when a task took time--as when Martin had to wait for something--a clock simply appeared and ticked around the dial a couple times; then the game proceeded. This did away with the problem of wandering around looking for something else to do to advance the action.

The endgame showed up pretty abruptly and there wasn't much you could do but watch it unroll. I think I would have liked the possibility of a couple different endings, or more possible interaction. All in all, NiBiRu played more like a piece of interactive fiction: fairly linear, with a predetermined outcome the gamer could not influence much. After a brain-bending, puzzle-heavy game, it was a nice relaxing change of pace that took me about 15 hours, maybe less. If you like classic point and click, you'll like this one.

Great game...leaves you wanting more!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm looking forward to a sequel, the graphics were very nice and puzzles weren't too hard. I would have preferred a little more adventuring around but all in all it was a very good game and I highly recommend it!

Nibiru - great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE adventure games so I had to play this one of course. Nibiru is fairly easy and fun to play. It has a lot of puzzles and reminds me of "Black Mirror" very much so. I also played Black Mirror and this was my favorite after Syberia and Syberia II. Ahhh what can I say. If you like all the above you will have fun playing NiBiRu. You won't find anything super hard and the game won't let you continue unless the puzzle is solved. I played it pretty quick but had fun..... great graphics. But hey - that is just me.

Good, but not Great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A typical Adventure Company release - point and click, lovely graphics overall, rock solid and enjoyable and reasonable voice acting.

I've only played the game for a few hours, but I think that's a good enough sample by which to judge the product. The game features the usual inventory-combine items - click on the screen - to activate puzzle solutions, which you either like or not. I find it logical, easy to use and enjoyable. I also like the fact that you can play the game without a CD in the drive, if you do a full install

It's very like the same designer's Black Mirror, with lovely rendered scenery, some awkward character movement and the need to re-visit people or locations several times to find clues or items. However, the voice acting is far better than Black Mirror, which was so silly as to be comical. There are a couple of in-jokes (all right, then, "Easter eggs") about Black Mirror, too, if players keep their eyes peeled.

The pace of things can be a bit slow at times and the main character walks like he's got gout, or arthritis, or something. Still, the scenery and the gradual build-up of the storyline mean that you tend to overlook these irritations and enjoy the game.

However, if you want action, buy Tomb Raider or one of those awful `shoot em ups': NiBiRu is recommended for adventure game fans.

Great story..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game had a great story line. It was very interesting and easy to follow. It was medium in length and kept my interest through the whole thing. The graphics were gorgeous, I was quite pleased with it.

The down side is that the puzzles are almost impossible to figure out (most of them anyway), I had to cheat a lot to finish it. That is why it only gets a 3. If the puzzles made more sense it would have been a much better game.

Pretty Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Pretty good game. Last 2 puzzles were pretty hard for me. Took me awhile and had to go on the internet to get hints to finish. Good graphics.

A fun, well-animated adventure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like third person adventure games that includes intrigue and murder without too much gore, this might be one for you. Since there are other things written on the plot summary, I'm not going to relate the plot here; just tell you what I thought of the game. I will tell you that most of the story is good but some of it is not that great. Sorry if that sounds vague. For most of the game, you explore and solve inventory puzzles. Sometimes it can be a pain trying to figure out what to do with items. The best thing about this game is the array of places to explore. There are European street scenes, underground tunnels, a Mexican jungle and more. The game is very well animated and has good sound effects; especially the rain. So if you sometimes get antsy exploring the same fifteen rooms throughout an entire game, you might want to consider Nibiru. The voice acting is decent; not great, but decent. And the characters are fairly well animated. There aren't too many difficult puzzles, but there are some, (warning! there is one puzzle that is really tedious!) One of the worst things about this game was the ending. It was unrealistic and a little unsatisfying. I'm not going to tell the end here, because I don't want to spoil it, but I wasn't impressed. But, if you just want to play something different, then consider this game.

Good for a pleasant afternoon, but not much more.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 55 / 56
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Despite the picture on the box, most of the scenery takes place in Czech Republic, followed by small bits in France and Mexico. The storyline becomes apparent during the game play, and is not difficult to follow, even if you pay attention to a television program instead of this game. The play involves talking to people, finding objects by mousing over them, combining and using objects in the inventory, and solving a few puzzles.

The good parts of the game:
.The graphics are pretty good, and include rain (lots and lots of rain), a bit of snow, and realistically walking people.
. The puzzles are easy enough to solve without being a pain or a bore.
. You can't get lost anywhere, because the game will not let you either use the wrong items (match on the map to burn it up) or get lost, because you can't go too far without performing certain tasks or finding certain objects.
. You can turn this game off and go to bed without an aching to get back.

The bad parts:
. The game sometimes hangs, usually if there is another program running in the background.
. The tasks can be tedious and annoying, such as talking to a certain person, then another person, then back again, then walking away for a bit, then walking back and talking again.
. The characters have odd accents - there are several cockneys, and the bad guys sound like Sean Connery. The main character, Martin, has a deep, pleasant voice.
. If you miss a bit of dialogue, or even an entire conversation, you can't go back and play it again, unless, of course, you saved the game just before that point.
. The grammar, punctuation, and spelling in the dialogues are severly lacking.
. Every so often Martin exclaims, "I'd better get out of here quickly" as he saunters off slowly. Luckily, everyone else is even slower so he easily gets away.

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