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Great Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 98 / 101
Date: December 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed playing this game. The story is an intriguing one, centering around an old theme park and the entertainers who once lived there. At one point or another, each inhabitant had made a pact with the devil, selling their soul for personal gain. You play Marcellus Faust, who has been placed in the park in order to figure out whose soul goes to heaven, and whose soul burns in hell -- or at least that's what you think you're there to do. The game has seven episodes and each episode allows you to discover certain truths about each character. You do this through finding clues and solving puzzles -- some fairly complex, otherst a bit easier. All in all, they kept me on my toes. The graphics are pretty good and you move easily through the game. After episode two there is a built in hint mechanism you can use when you get stuck. The game is accompanied by a great soundtrack of various blues music, which adds a haunted atmosphere to the scenes. The game is rated Mature due to sexual content, etc. but personally I thought it was fairly mild.

Seven Games Too Few

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 47 / 49
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What a treat this game is! Superb graphics, gameplay and storyline make it a standout among recent adventure games. It is a first-person, point-click game that incorporates the best from the past while offering a fresh, new feel. The voice acting is elegant and is the best I have heard in years, and there's not so much of it to make it irritating. "Faust" has a pleasant Myst-like quality with beautiful scenery and environments. The navigation is easy and stress-free. The game is logical and clever, and while a walkthrough may come in handy at times, there are no obscure hot-sopts to drive you mad, and since the game is not linear at all, you can wander and click at your heart's content. It is nearly impossible to get stuck beyond repair. The music makes this game especially enjoyable. Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughn, Stan Getz, Marvin Gaye, and John Lee Hooker are a few of the marvelous musical artists to enjoy. Plus, you can play the cuts by clicking music in the options menu - too cool! After just a few minutes of playing, you will be hooked. All of the professional reviewers have raved about this game. That's why I bought it! That is also why I find it strange that there are a few negative reviews on Amazon. Maybe they were written by young, inexperienced gamers. I don't know, and I don't care because everything about this game is likeable. Easy load, beautiful graphics, great sound, intelligent puzzles, easy navigation, addictive story, no bugs, elegant voice acting - a rare combination these days.

A Game of Profound Lessons

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 41 / 45
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just finished Faust: Seven Games of the Soul. I must say that I could not leave this game at night without getting up the next morning to begin again. It takes the seven deadly sins one by one and puts a character in the role to make it believable. I would say the voice acting and the graphics were shockingly well done. Each level got better than the last. Most adventure games try to get to this level of intelligence but few make the grade. It was great fun and kept me wondering what would come next. That is the duty of game producers, but sometime they do not make the grade. I loved this game and I would love to hear from some of the rest of you with opinions.

Satan can have my soul before I'll play this again.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 38 / 44
Date: March 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game sounds like it would be cool- you wander around an amusement park and deal with the condemned. Well, it's not. The graphics are out of date, the voice acting sounds like a badly dubbed movie, and the point and click puzzles make no sense. Also, you're in an amusement park but you can't interact with the rides. I could forgive all this if the story was good. Instead, the storyline is just a bunch of weird events strung together. For example, one of the "sins" you have to deal with is a scientist who gets offered immortality. He says no so you pile little rocks around his house and leave. And that's IT. Also, the puzzles are so illogical they're impossible to solve. It took me 15 minutes to figure out I had to get to the secret passage behind the refrigerator by lifting the fridge with a complicated rope system and a teddy bear. Yup, you lift a refrigerator by using a teddy bear as a counterweight. I just pointed and clicked on everything to solve the game. It took 4 long hours where I kept shaking my head and saying "WHAT'S GOING ON?". The only good thing about the game was that some of the FMV's were fun to watch. They didn't add to the plot, but they showed some creepy images. If you want a good adventure game I'd go with The Longest Journey. I just wish I hadn't wasted my 20 bucks on this one.

Don't they test these things?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 29 / 35
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In SEVEN GAMES OF THE SOUL, you play the role of an elderly caretaker of an abandoned amusement park. You are approached by the devil with a task: witness the stories of seven individuals, and decide whether their souls will go to heaven or hell. It seemed like a fascinating premise, and I was eager to see how it would be handled in a computer game.

I'll admit it's my own fault for not making sure the game would run properly under Windows XP. It doesn't. It will run, but it isn't at all pleasant. The animated sequences get stuck frequently, and the audio is choppy. It's a good thing subtitles are available for the dialogue, although most of it is nonsensical, metaphysical gibberish anyway. As of this writing, there is no patch to make the game XP-compatible.

But operating issues are only part of the problem. The puzzles, if they can be called that, are so obtuse you'd have to be some kind of savant to be able to complete them unaided. There is absolutely no logic to them at all. At a later point in the game, you're rewarded with a demonic assistant, but the clues it offers are invariably for activities you've already completed. Apparently the clues are based on your physical location, not how far you've actually progressed in the game. Except for a couple manual tasks you need it to perform, it is useless.

The graphics are fairly nice, but interacting with things is also problematic. Hot spots are frustratingly obscure and you can move over them a half dozen times before they register. Occasionally, they are misplaced entirely. There is one room you can't exit until you make a quarter turn away from the door and click on a blank wall. And I am currently at a standstill in my game because a drawer I need to open will not open. I have gone over every inch of that room to no avail. What good is a game that you cannot finish even with a walkthrough?

SEVEN GAMES OF THE SOUL (or FAUST as it is referred to in the game itself) is a huge disappointment. It could have been interesting, but it getting through any portion of the game was torture.

Who stole the rest of my game?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game begins very nicely. It's a fun premise, having to go back in time and learn about peoples lives that are in the balance between being really good and really bad and then helping to decided what happens to them. Even more fun is the Devil, or Mephesto, is going to "help" you and the game does a great job at the begining creating a feeling that he's after more than he says and that you are somehow at risk as well.

Then it goes down hill.

Don't get me wrong, there is some fun game play here, it just missed so much of what it could be, and falls prey to some adventure game conventions that I hate and I feel have lead to the decline of the genera. First of all it's 1st person perspective...I HATE THAT! Adventure games are called interactive fiction for a reason. It is much more engageing to watch your character move around and explore things than to get a camera's prespective. I know this was the format for "Myst" and that sold a bizillion copies, but that was 1994 and it was visually new. It's not and it lessens the story telling aspect of a game like this. The idea of a wize old black man from Mississippi as your hero is great...then we hardly ever get to see him.

Which brings me to another point. There is no character interation in this game. Every so often you get a cut scene, but you never get to ask another character a question that gives you insight and information to further your quest, alow for us to get to know our hero better and suck us into the world of the game more.

Some of the puzzels are quite nice, but some are a bit random and there is no information in the game as to how you should find your way through some of these, you just have to guess, trial and error or go to a walk through. I have no problem with useing walk throughs, the way I see it is I paid money for the game to enjoy it, not be frusterated by it so at a certain point I will turn to one. I was just dissapointed with how random some of the puzzles seemed to be.

I guess the biggest disapointment was the ending. I don't want to spoil it, but it changes the opening premise totally and suddenly Mephisto is your harmless, charming buddy. All the reference to tricks and deciet and twists vanishes into thin air and suddenly we are playing the ending to what seems to be a totally different, and much less intersting game.

So, after all of that why 3 stars? Like I said, it does have some very nice moments, it is visually very nice and the MUSIC. If nothing else they made wonderful use of music for mood and period. One of the nicest features of the game is the Juke Box feature that allows you to play any of the music from the game. I sometimes open the game just to play the music.

Point and click, only better.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This would be your average point and click game, if it weren't for the compelling story and the great characters. This game takes some getting used to, and I nearly gave up playing after half an hour. I'm glad I kept going, though.

The seven different stories are worthy of a good short stories book. The graphics look a little outdated, but they do a great job at reproducing the atmosphere of an creepy abandoned amusement park. The voices are more than acceptable (better than most Dreamcatcher games), and the musical score is fantastic.

I agree it can be difficult at some points, but it's always up to you to decide how long you want to spend figuring out a puzzle. Walkthroughs are all over the internet.

This game rates lower than "The Longest Journey", but only because the latter was such a grandiose game. "Seven Games of the Soul" is definitely in my top ten for adventure games. It's the kind of game you are sad to finish, because you know you are going to miss the characters.

One of My Favorites!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Excellent story (which is first and foremost, the most important element in an adventure game), great music, and wonderful graphics make this one of my favorite games of all time. It ranks right up there with Riven and The Longest Journey.

Seven Games of the soul is a dark (yet occassionally humorous) game, with many fascinating characters. In it, you play an old man (whose identity you will discover later in the game) who can't remember who he is. But Mephistopheles (a demon, or the devil, as some call him) and "The Boss" tell you that they need you to determine if these seven specific characters should go to heaven or hell. However, by the end, you realize that isn't all. This game has a much deeper meaning behind it, and is really very thought-provoking (making you contemplate your life, God, and the balance between "good/evil"). Along the way to your journey of self-discovery, you'll meet a pair of greedy, selfish siamese twin sisters, and an immature young man aching for love so badly that he'd sell his soul just to have women fall at his feet. You'll also come across a vain, racist, and very angry man. And last, is poor young Giselle, a sweet girl who has a psychological eating disorder due to a horrible tragedy in her past. These are only some of the sad characters you'll come to know. And Mephistopheles (or Mephisto) alone is a very intriguing character--he gives some very interesting insight to the idea of the "devil" and the struggle between good/evil. By the end, I was feeling sorry for the poor guy.

This game has horror, tragedy, lust, love, and more. It's hard to believe anyone would rate this game badly. I recommend it to anyone interested in this type of thing.

Fantastic Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: May 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I kept passing this game up at the store and on-line. I just wasnt sure it would live up to its description. Man, was I so wrong! I am glad that this game "haunted" the back of my mind so much and made me buy it. The story-line is fantastic. The puzzles and reasoning are perfection. I really felt for the characters in this game. Some I still wonder about as if they were real. Evil and Good....or as they say,"force and counter-force." I wanted to see everything and be everywhere in this carnival of Dreamland. There were no glitches at all and the game ran so smoothly. I love the 360 degree viewing and the graphics were outstanding. This is a very mature game. The content is over PG-13 rating in a few areas. After I finished, (satisfied yet, sad that it was over) I immediatley went to the software site to see if there was any chance of a sequal. One of my top ten Adventure Games!

Duh?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: June 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be one of the most innane games I have ever played. the idea of 7 vices is brilliant and that is what drew me in, however the 7 vices are never explored and are linked in the dreamland park through some bizarre connection known only to the creators of this little waste of space. In the end, I had no idea what the goal of this exercise had been. The acting is horrid, cursors are barely visable when they light on a hotspot and there is little control over any action--you are simpley moving the story along. Almost as bad, anytime you backed out to save you had to endure a lengthy movie credit sequence...over and over and over. Music not too bad though.

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