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Nice story but too dark!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I mean 'dark' I mean 'dark'! What made this game frustrating was that some scenes were too dark to find anything! Getting around the lab was really tough cuz you got find these switches to light up the room.(yes, I put my brightness all the way up!)

As for the puzzles, some are easy (just keep clicking the symbols if you don't understand the clues) some are hard (just read those books you find) and some are just time consuming (you can get through those mazes eventually!!!).

I think the most "illogical" part comes after you leave the lab. You have to find the right urn and have the charcoal with you.

As for the lip sync, I don't really care about it. It is afterall just a video game with limitations. I don't think the average player is going to notice that.

I think this game could have been better if it had more puzzles and less of picking up stuff. Nice story though.

Unpleasant beyond belief

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being an H.P.Lovecraft fan I bought this game with high hopes and initially was happy with the excellent pictures. My brief euphoria, however turned to frustration and then anger when I had to turn the brightness up to the max on my monitor and still couldn't see anything during the dungeon part of the game. I could just imagine the game's designers sitting around saying "Let's make it even darker! That would be really fun!" Even with a walkthrough I had a terrible time manuevering around and eventually the boredom took over, and I got rid of this turkey. Save your money or read some H. P. Lovecraft books instead. I will never buy another Dreamcatcher game again.

starts off good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, I liked this game at the beginning, until you get half way through and then you spend more time "dying" then anything else. It got to the point where I no longer wanted to finish the game because of how and why you "died". It was just, quite frankly, too annoying to continue to play.

Necromonicon

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I do not recommend this game for the following reasons: Too complicated to get through without a cheat guideline. Disappointed with many of the scenes. I would have liked to be able to explore the upstairs of the first home, but was unable to do it. I became bored too soon with this game.

Evil

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

..., I played and enjoyed this game. The story is cool and the graphics and sound are excellent. If you like the occult, satan and stuff like that, and you are an adventure gamer, I recomend this game.

A great storyline!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first started playing Necronomicon, I wasn't very impressed by the opening enviornment. However, as the game progressed, I was so intriqued by it. I thought the storyline was brilliant and the some of the locations were downright spooky. I found the puzzles to be difficult but not so much that your about to pull your hair out. I really recommend this game to anybody who likes scary situations, and a challenge. The only downside I could find was that it was a little short and the ending wasn't what I had expected, but I still give it two thumbs up!!

good game,very creepy and pretty hard

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed necronomicon.At times it was hard to hear the dialogue because the people either mumbled or talked to fast or soft.The graphics were good and the puzzles were not easy.The only thing i had to have help with was the correct urn.I just guessed any urn would due.I thought it was funny that in the town other than the fisherman nobody ever answered a door when i knocked.It is creepy like the 2 dracula games i played.Necronomicon is certainly harder than dracula -resurrection and a little bit harder than dracula-the last sanctuary.I thought the documents were complicated.If there is a negative to the game it is the overcomplicated documents.overall a good game.

really awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I picked this game up because it was cheap and happened to be one of the few adventure games I didn't already own. It was a waste money. This most awful computer game I've ever played. The storyline is boring and confusing and the graphics and voice acting are terrible. It's an excruciatingly slow game to get through, not because it's hard, but because it takes forever to get from point A to point B and then you have to listen to some awful dialogue for a while. The puzzle I had the most problem with in the game was the one where you had to light torches in a dark tunnel. You can't go on to the next stretch of tunnel until you light the torch in that area, and it's impossible to see anything. I was reduced to searching the screen with my cursor until I could find a spot where the game would allow me to use my matches. It wasn't hard to figure out what I had to do, but actually doing it was another matter. Save youself the frusteration and boredom and buy some other game. Whatever else you might get, it'll probably be better than this game. If it's worse, you have my sympathy.

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