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Mystery of the Purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This may be an interesting game, but the screens are so dark that detail is impossible to see. I have run this on 2 XP machines, one with a flat-panel display and one with a CRT. Both screens are much too dark at even the correspponding maximum brightness settings. That, coupled with a very hyperactive mouse speed [also not controllable] render the game virtually [really] unplayable. I recommend "SAVE YOUR MONEY!"

Don't bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am an avid adventure gamer--this one stinks. I got very tired of hunting for clues pixel by pixel for tools needed, trying to solve puzzles with no clear clues, and the puzzles are mindless. Save you money and go play Grim Fandago again.

Worst game ever created (should be cremated)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This so-called "game" is one of the worst [things] I've ever seen. [Bad] story, [bad] voice acting and badly rendered environment come with bad controls. Puzzles are [bad], no clues, you have to do lots of thing "just because". Every puzzle MUST be done in a strict order, otherwise you cannot proceed. To find items, you MUST check EVERY pixel on every scene. Avoid this "game" at all costs...

actually surprisingly quite good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I own more than 20 adventure games and I've seen them all the good the bad and the ugly. Dreamcatcher games often fall in the latter category but this one is actually good. I am haflway through it but I am enjoying it. The puzzles are especially good, they make sense and are well thought compared with recent releases that are helping to kill the adventure genre through poor execution (mystery of the druids anyone)?
The graphics are so-so and I don't care too much about the sound either as long as the atmosphere is good, and this game does provide that.This should be enough for real adventure gamers (ever played Ripper? great atmosphere despite poor grpahics). So give it a try, don't worry this has little in common with tomb of the pharaoh or other mediocre adventure fare. Sherlock fans will likely enjoy this even more.

Very disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Dreamcatcher usually puts out very cool games, but this one looks like it was made in 1992 (and that's being nice). The graphics were poor compared to other adventure games, and a lot of the puzzles had nothing to do with the game. I could not tackle a puzzle sometimes because the clues had really nothing to do with the game, so it was hard to know what to look for. And one puzzle near the end required the player to LITERALLY find a pin in a completely destroyed room (like a needle in a haystack!). There was NO WAY of being able to see this piece, let alone find it, unless you carefully followed the directions of a walkthrough. I think they could have done better. Thank goodness I sold it and got some money back....

Turn Back Now, Before It's Too Late!!!

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

This game was not fun at all. It was so complicated that I could not finish it without using on-line help. Clues were not given at all. And many solutions were illogical and didn't follow the game plot. Even an avid strategy-game player, like myself, would be unable to solve the mystery alone. The game wasn't even fun because you needed help every step of the way. Don't waste your time or money on this game. It's not worth it.

Dont buy this game!![.]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When i bought this game, i ignored the reviews, thinking that it would turn out to be a good game. I was horribly wrong. This was one of the worst games ever made.
For example, about 5 minuites into the game, you have to solve a puzzle before you can do anything else. I dont like puzzles a lot. Well, this game was full of them. Half of the things you were required to do turned out to have no point later in the game. To make my day of gaming even worse, I have come across 2 slider puzzles in the game so far, and i havent finished it yet. {im not anywhere near to finsihing it yet.}
The cursor in the game is very confusing. I just kept clicking around the screen because i didnt understand any of the cursor symbuls. I have counted throughtout my half gaming experience, and noticed the cursor changes 6 times!

If you are going to buy this game, get a walkthrough first, because i couldnt do half the stuff on my own without one.

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: May 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was terrible - really bad. The graphics were decent and the puzzles had interesting concepts behind them, but the way that you had to solve them made no sense. There were many objects that you had to find to proceed in the game that you literally could not see; the only way to find them was to run the cursor along every square inch of every screen in the area and look to see if the cursor changed to pick-up mode in order to find what you need. This game was much more frustrating than fun... a big disappointment.

One of the dumbest games ever...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game about six months ago. I haven't finished it yet, mostly because it is so boring that I don't care to play it. I printed out a walkthrough, but they doesn't help much since there are so many sliders, and things that walkthroughs can't help with. There isn't one character to interact with during the whole game, and the music is really annoying!!!

thouroughly dissapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game was horrible. often times you can't see items and there is nothing to indicate that something can be done with say a wall or a paiting unless you happen to try an object on it. You don't interact with charecters really at all. the only times you even see other charecters is once when a man comes in babbling nonesense, or at the end where the story still didn't make sense. things dissapear from your invetory and don't like to reappear. i had to start the game over three times. The puzzles are illogical and HARD. I was constantly looking for cheats. my opinion: this game is not worth two cents!

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