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Another bizarre import

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A very strange little game indeed. It plays out like a survival horror game, except there's no way to die and the only use your character has for a gun is to shoot a locked door. The plot is odd in the extreme and only holds together by the barest thread of coincidence. You play to the end assuming All Will Be Revealed, only to find that the central mystery is not only not answered but not even mentioned. Excuse me?

That aside, game play is fairly smooth and logical, though there's an awful lot of looking for keys. It's a brain game, not a reflex game, so expect to do a lot of problem solving and no shooting. (And hours of pixel-hunting, sigh.) The walls you pass are often decorated with very funny subversive posters that seem to have been designed by a satirical comic screwing around with Photoshop (you know the type -- photos of ordinary people bulged out on one side and so on).

Incidently, you should take the Mature rating fairly seriously. There's a lot of cursing, many many many photos of nude women, and variously horribly slaughtered bodies around every corner. I mean, I've seen worse, but I'm not sure I'd be happy about seeing a 13-year-old playing this game.

Immersive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: May 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, if you are not a fan of adventure games
And don't know who gabriel knight or manuel calvera is
then drop a point on the review. But if you love adventure games
and realize how few worth playing come out then give this game
a go. It is far from perfect but it really draws you into the
game. I agree it is not scary and it is far less frustrating then Silent hill.I fell in love with the world buka had created.This is defintley a game that deserved it's mature rating. So much so that fetish magazines and web sites have even reviewed the game.So if you are over 18 and love adventure games you will find this title very worthy of a purchase.

Good but not great.

Da? Nyet!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game is NOT scary, no where near that of Silent Hill or any other in that genre. The only thing that makes it anywhere near a horror game is the creepy music. The graphics are done pretty well, a lot of attention to detail was done in this game. Second of all, this game is really short, so short that the walk thru on one web site was about a page long. The only thing that gives it any real length is by some of the 'puzzles' that you have to solve, which most are pretty easy. This game, to add to some confusion, uses lots of red herrings and different code numbers for certain doors, and they also play dirty by sometimes showing you what to do by the icon on some, not on the others. It is a point and click, and as in many of them, don't expect any fights or boss battles, Also the game was designed by Russians, and even though it was translated well for an American audience, there are still a few puzzles that has to be done that only the Ruskies know about, but for most expereinced gamers that shouldn't be much of a problem. All in all, it's an okay game if your bored and have a day to kill, but don't pay the current price, it's not worth it, wait a few weeks until the price drops and then get it.

Hard to Follow

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was OK. The graphics and dialog are decent but there seems to be no reason for actions of the character or for the "inventory" he uses. The item description is terrible! Like with Alone in the Dark and others, you can click on an item in inventory and it describes it for you. Not this one. I figured out which items to combine by trial and error because I had no idea what they were! Depends on what you pay for it - I didn't pay over $10 so it's ok for me. Wouldn't pay more at all!!!

Pathetic "game"....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The story setup of the game is very promising but it turns out to be a turd by the end. This is not a scary horror game as advertised, but a boring, uninspired adventure game. I love adventure games, but this one is among the worst.

While playing this game, I put up with all the nonsensical story twists and puzzles, the awkward user interface hoping that at the end, the mystery will be revealed. After finishing the game, I have no idea what was the story, because whatever happened, has nothing to do with the story outline on the back of the box.

Puzzles are mostly "find key here", "use key there", involving a lot of meaningless walking - many of the scenes are really just fillers to artificially increase the game length without adding any substance. There is a lot of pixel hunting involved and some puzzles are buggy.

Graphics is excellent and voice acting is well done, though. The text is a bit strange in places (I guess because it's translated from Russian.) Unfortunately, superb graphics doesn't prevent the game from crumbling to pieces: writing is so utterly bad, that there are no words to describe it.

All in all, this game is a huge dissapointment; avoid at all costs. I won't ever buy anything again from its makers.

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