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Tedious and anticlimactic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was so happy to find a PC game based in a haunted house that featured lots of puzzles to solve. It sounded like it would be fun and spooky. It seemed to come highly recommended. So I bought it. I was bitterly disappointed with the game when I finished playing. I don't really have a complaint with the graphics. The game came out in the early 90's after all. The music, however, has to go. Sometimes it was so loud I could barely hear what the characters were saying. It doesn't serve to set the mood that you're in a creepy haunted house. It's just someone playing a mad synthesizer. I had to turn it off, it got so annoying. I also wish I could have turned off Stauf's commentary. At one point, you're journeying through a maze. Each time you hit a dead end, he says, "feeling...lonely?" I swear I heard him say it 50 times. I wanted to scream. The storyline of the game sounds interesting enough, but it doesn't really go anywhere. The ending left me feeling confused. The outside of the box says I am the 7th Guest. Throughout the game you see the ghost of a young boy who is referred to as the 7th Guest. So, is that boy supposed to be me? Am I supposed to be a ghost in the house, myself? Then why should I have to solve all these puzzles to figure out what happened, when it happened to ME? And that's another thing, the puzzles are awful. With most of them, you don't even get a hint as to what you're supposed to do to solve the puzzle. A couple of them were interesting, but overall I found them tedious. Definitely not the fun challenge I had anticipated.

board! BOARD!! BOARD!! BOOAARRDD!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 32
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To be honest this game is boaring to me. It's not creapy, I guess in its day it was scary, but not by today's standard baby!
I bought this game and 11th hour at the local dollar store. It looked creapy but it wasnt. The only thing that was enjoyable about this game was the puzzles, they are very puzzling, and you'll be obsest with trying to solve them, my faverite was lining up the queens on the chess board. But its not scary, if you want scary buy Cleave Barker's Undying.

Some fun puzzles, but not much else

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would have given it two and a half stars, but I'll have to give it two. There are some fun puzzles in this game, but it lacks a lot.

One -- some of the puzzles are badly unoriginal. The worst example of this is a player piano that imitates the game "Simon", where you have to remember the tune and play it back. Other puzzles almost repeat themselves

Two -- the puzzles do not interact with the game play at all. The game is basically just a walkthrough movie, with puzzles here and there to solve so that you can make it to the next part of the movie. In this respect, it is somewhat like the game "Fool's Errand"

Three -- the animation moves too darn slow in the puzzles. When you click on a move, the characters or icons on the screen move annoyingly slow.

Overall though, if you buy it cheap off the rack, it will be worth it for you. But it is still not a great game at all.

If you like chess...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When this game first came out it was outstanding. We have come along way since then. The story is very weak. There are way too many puzzles closely resembling chess. The piano puzzle is overdone and the Basement maze is from hell itself-even with hints. The scenes are gross but fun. It is fun watching the scenes unravel eventually. It is a nice house.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The 7th Guest has a good premise, but the inability to escape out of boring (and useless) dialog is almost enough to make me cry in frustration. The games are fun enough, but it takes so long to get through the introductory chatter (which replays every time you need to start a particular game over to get it right) that it's almost not worth it.

Great when it was released, but now...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When The 7th Guest was first released in 1993, it was pretty much just a CD-ROM showcase: "Look what I can do." Further technological advancements, though, haven't proven kind to The 7th Guest, but the game remains as good now as it ever was. It's mostly an series of puzzles and brain teasers with only the barest thread of a story (and not always a clear, sensible one, at that) to connect them. Some of the puzzles, however, are pretty good, and the game has a wonderful, creepy style that infects every puzzle with an energy that definitely sets The 7th Guest apart from most other puzzle games. If you know what you're getting yourself into, there's no reason you can't enjoy The 7th Guest today.

Fun game, with sound issues

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is worth 4 stars--however, the volume for the voice acting is turned way down, and there isn't a way to fix it, so you strain to hear everything said--a real problem when you're trying to follow the story!

Aside from that, however, it's a wonderfully creepy trip through a haunted house, where you must solve some fiendishly difficult puzzles in order to find out who you are, and why you're there (and how to get out!). A great game to play with a group of friends, or alone with the lights out...

Okay puzzler

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the kind of thing that turns people off of adventure games, but on it's own terms it's okay, a puzzle game in adventure fancy pants.

The haunted house atmosphere is too silly to take seriously.

I wouldn't spend much for it, but if you can find it cheap (and if you like puzzles) you'll have fun with it.

It was funý

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...for about 3.5 hours, then I just tossed it in the back ofmy closet, please, I beg you, for the human race, this game isn'tworth [the price], it's not even worth it if it was for free! The graphics and gameplay are old (1993 style), puzzles are difficult and also a sad introduction to the game!

Oh my brain! These sounds on my brain!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is intriguing enough. The story doesn't evolve to my tastes, it's a pile of clues, and that can be fun but I found it kind of stagnant. The game has a sense of humor, and it's also kind of wierd. But that dang music! What is most frightening about it for me, is that I could not get those sounds out of my head for a long, LONG, L---O---N---G time.

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