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Macintosh : Morpheus Reviews

Below are user reviews of Morpheus and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Morpheus. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.







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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: April 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its a fun game that my brother and i have beet at least 10 times if you like stratigie get this you won't regret it!

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Although the graphics are somewhat outdated, the storyline and puzzles are second only to the Myst series. Details in the storyline came together logically with required inventories, and the game allowed for some exploration (the correct path was not always the only path). Great game for beginners and intermediate players.

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the type of game I usually look for, challenging to my mind but non violent. I strongly recommend this. Strongly.

A wonderful adventure...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 96 / 101
Date: January 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is what a proper adventure game should be. There's a mystery to solve, a secret past to discover, even a maiden to save! There is also no swearing, no blatant sexual themes (although the scantily clad woman on the cover of the box might suggest otherwise), and very little gore.

What made this game so much fun was the uniqueness of it all. You're an explorer out to discover the legacy of his lost father and discover a ship trapped in the ice. The ship is inhabited by odd spirits and dreams of people long dead, and it's your job to find out what happened and set the dreamers free.

The acting in this game is very good as are the graphics in the game. The characters are easy to believe (instead of looking like disinterested hacks reading from scripts) and the story rapidly swallows your attention. If you love a challenging adventure game with a deeply involving plot you'll adore Morpheus.

A Haunting and Intricate Story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 28
Date: July 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Morpheus offers a haunting and intricate story, elaborate settings, and a significant amount of game play. The dialogue is well-written and I found myself drawn into the characters and story and not wanting the game to end. Puzzles range in difficulty from easy to fairly difficult, but all were fun to solve.

A criticism is that the voice acting is a bit hammy in parts. Also, the interface is a bit slow at times. However, these are minor criticisms, and it is important to note that I didn't experience any bugs or crashes while playing this game, which is an all-too-rare experience with this type of software product, unfortunately.

The thought, imagination and hard work that went into the creation of this game are evident. I recommend Morpheus to gamers who enjoyed games like Myst or Riven, and Morpheus represents a good value for the amount of entertainment and game play it offers.

Excellent Escapism

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game. Initially I bought it because of the price...and because I thought it might be interesting. I was hooked right from the jump. The graphics were incredible and the little movie scenes took me by surprise and left me with goosebumps. I'm not a bigtime gamer but I love this type of game where you can just get lost in the world you're playing in. I especially enjoyed the dream worlds...I wish they were more in-depth so I could have explored even more and spent more time there. I recommend this game to everyone who likes the escape of this type of game. Some of the other reviews on here talk about flatness of acting and all kinds of technical flaws, etc...just play the game and immerse yourself. You'll love it... I want to make a return trip to the Herculania and all it's bizarre, magnificent worlds!

A true chiller!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: March 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Wow! What a surprise! A relatively low priced game which in my opinion competes evenly with some of the more expensive ones. There are many puzzles to solve....some easy, some more challenging, but not so challenging as to be frustrating. Great plot and character development. Music and graphics were excellent. A haunted ship with a whole cadre of ghosts with stories to tell. What could be better? No ghouls. Just good fun. Even a bidet!

Fantastic, I just wish it had gone on longer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: February 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The puzzles are well-integrated into the gameplay -- e.g. when you have to find a number to unlock a combo lock, it's invariably a number that was relevant to the character whose door it is.

The graphics are beautiful and the animations smooth. Granted, this is on a P3 600 with 32M of VRAM, but they were so perfect that I expect they'd be fine on a considerably lower-end system. (I was a touch annoyed that it did not automatically switch resolutions; I had to manually set my res to get it to use the whole screen; it's not hard, it's just that there've been games that could do this automatically for years, so how come not this one? Whatever...)

I liked the story. Sure, you have to suspend disbelief, since it's SF set in the recent past. But considering what a difficult genre that is, I thought they did a really impressive job. (Jules Verne and H.G. Wells would've loved the Herculania.) The ambience is great, helped along by a good mix of bg noises and a well-blended soundtrack. The characters, who at first appear rather flat and archetypal, actually each develop some depth as you learn more about their private passions and neuroses. (Of course, if you're impatient it's quite possible to win the game without ever exploring the nooks and crannies where you'll find this stuff; failing to find a large chunk of the story may have contributed to the low rating one of the other reviewers here gives.)

There's also a pretty decent mix of puzzle types. "Find the combo for the lock" is the most common, but there're a couple "manipulate the switches to the right position", and the odd bit of mathematical tomfoolery and wordplay here and there, something which I always enjoy. One of the lock puzzles even requires some Riven-esque attention to the environment. My only real complaint is that the "endgame" segment could've stood to have another puzzle added, something really tough to round out the sense of achievment. (I thought the colored-bead puzzle at the end of Riven was a great finisher.)

One last comparison to Myst/Riven: The ending is mysterious and leaves you a little confused, but unlike in Cyan's two big hits (which I love, don't get me wrong), you definitely have a _conclusion_. Whatever happenned, it's over, and there was a happy ending.

Regarding the caption: it wasn't a short game -- it spans three CDs, and a great variety of scenery -- I just was having so much fun I was sorry to see it end!

stable game with interesting storyline

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this on a PowerMac G4 and it was incredibly stable. I'd even leave the game sitting overnight, come back in the morning and start right back up without a sputter; also, shifts to audio and visual cutscenes were very smooth.

The story is interesting. You begin as a nearly frozen Arctic explorer who is looking for his father, and you find the Herculania, a mysterious luxury ship with people suspended in odd pods. As you wander you see ghostly apparitions of past events, and as time goes by you piece together the macabre happenings and even find out what happened to your father. In the course of your advetures you enter the dreams of several characters and these settings were as interesting as the beautiful ship's theatre, cabins and scientific rooms.

Very well done first-person adventure game.

Really entertaining, a lot of fun to play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 37 / 38
Date: December 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I found myself totally engrossed in this game. It is visually delightful, imaginative and enough of a challenge to be really interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed the 1920's haunted ship,the story, the characters, and the puzzles.Most of all, I enjoyed the creativity, imagination,and challenges of the characters dreamworlds. This is a game worth having. I was entertained and challenged, without blood guts and gore. In fact I ended up buying five of "Morpheus" to give as Christmas gifts. If you enjoy the creative and imaginative aspects of gaming, and can be entertained without violence, this is your game.


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